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Steven Keevil
@stevenkeevil.bsky.social
Kent Columnist of the Year Chair Second Chance Medway Write https://www.localauthority.news/t/interviews Mentor Medwayish
I recently met Anton Vamplew who first appeared on Blue Peter in 1997 as the programme's resident astronomer, but long before that he was known to Radio Kent listeners as Captain Cosmos.
Part two of my recent interview with the unemployed Leader of Medway Council Vince Maple. www.localauthority.news/im-quite-bor...
“I'm quite boring”
What Steven asked Vince Maple in the second of our two-part interview with the Leader of Medway Council
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I met @sundersays.bsky.social the Director of British Future, a non-partisan think tank in January at a cafe in Dartford where we talked about what it means to be non-partisan, who the anxious middle are, and if, as a PPE graduate, he is part of the problem www.kentcurrent.news/intent-matte...
“Intent matters and reception matters”
What we asked Sunder Katwala, Director of independent think tank, British Future
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AM Socials In this months packed cultural round up; Simon Gray writes about The Libertines at Rochester Castle Concerts, Stuart Turner checked out the Chatham & District Model Railway Show, www.localauthority.news/the-july-cul...
The July Culture Review
WHOOP!, Libertines, trains, Turkish grills, and more
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In January I met with Reverend Luke Bacon part of the team responsible for the revitalisation and reopening of St John's Church in Chatham. We discussed how he came to be involved, what their plans are for 2026, and if £4 million is money well spent... www.localauthority.news/it-was-essen...
“It was essential for the transformation of Chatham”
What Steven asked Luke Bacon, Minister at St Johns Church in Chatham
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This week on @kentcurrent.news I interviewed Martin Stirling a fellow graduate of Bournemouth Media School, a Margate resident and a writer/director of viral charity films. We talked about Javier Bardem, the National Youth Theatre and developing a feature film www.kentcurrent.news/i-always-bel...
“I always believed that there was power in brevity”
Our interview with Martin Stirling, writer and director
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Half the planet is having a massive fight about how to correctly interpret an Ancient Greek poem but go ahead, close some more humanities departments.
This week on @localauthority.news I interviewed @vincemaple.bsky.social for the 5th time. In pt 1 of 2 I talked to the Labour leader of Medway Council about the new Labour Prime Minister and what Local Government Reorganisation means for Medway. www.localauthority.news/ive-got-more...
Christ alive this Polanski story is fucking stupid. Everyone involved an absolute buffoon, including Farage.
In January I spoke with Jennifer Sutton, the Community Engagement Officer at Wave Community Bank. A credit union that covers Kent and Medway. www.kentcurrent.news/were-all-abo...
“We're all about helping our neighbours”
What we asked Jennifer Sutton, Community Engagement Officer at Wave Community Bank
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If you join in with this you support a novel that almost didn’t come out whose author had thousands of pounds of his earnings stolen by his ex-publishers AND an excellent independent bookshop who very kindly supported him through that astonishingly stressful hopefully-never-to-be-repeated situation.
Big Green Books@biggreenbooks.bsky.social · 2w agoBLUESKY BOOK CLUB FANS! We've chosen the first book that we'll be reading. "Everything Will Swallow You" by the mighty Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social . First meeting at the end of August, so plenty of time to read the book DETAILS HERE. www.biggreenbookshop.com/bluesky-book...
Communists: they’re against pedophiles, you heard it from the President himself
Acyn@acyn.bsky.social · last wk.Heckler: Pedophile protector! Trump: He’s a communist!
Murder on the Orient Express Checkout
Greg Jenner (Historian)@gregjenner.bsky.social · last wk.Edge-Lord of the Rings
Beginning of the year I interviewed Jack Packman the CEO of MVA “I don’t sit on boards to be important” www.localauthority.news/i-dont-sit-o...
“I don’t sit on boards to be important”
What Steven asked Jack Packman, CEO of Medway Voluntary Action
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Finalised Summary of Cabinet Changes: 29 Parliamentarians will attend Cabinet, unchanged from the previous administration. New Cabinet Positions include the Ministers for Intergovernmental/EU Relations, AI, and Housing/Planning.
If true, we get 3 things. None good. 1. The direct negative growth/fiscal impacts of cutting immigration. 2. A Chancellor who prioritises their own personal/ideological obsessions over the UK economy. 3. A PM who through myopia or weakness chooses 1 and 2.
Adam Bienkov@adambienkov.bsky.social · 3w agoThe Times reporting that Andy Burnham succeeded in persuading Shabana Mahmood to become Chancellor because it would give her more control over cutting immigration
The effective formula: 1. Do a good thing, no matter how small 2. Take credit for it! Why not? You did it 3. Communicate that you are taking credit for it. Other politicians can do this, I believe in you
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 3w agoThis summer, we kept the lights on all night, every night, at five soccer fields across New York City. This was the scene at Calvert Vaux Park in Gravesend, Brooklyn Tuesday night.
Man slowly deals with a work disagreement.
Jon Patience@smoulderstoat.bsky.social · 3w agoBoy is supposed to go to school. Doesn't.
Hi @biggreenbooks.bsky.social For #BuyAStrangetABookDay I would like to be somebody a book I rated 5 stars. Who is Government? by Michael Lewis.
I prefer the Binface guy with a somewhat workable manifesto versus the give-up-your-human-rights-while-I-slither-off-with-£5million Guy..🙄 #C_untofDodgyCrypto #CleanupClacton #ReformvRefuse #FrogfacevBinface #NigelMirage #LiegelFraudage #BindependenceDay
Today I'd like to give these out to people who've not benefitted from #buyastrangerabook before.
I will continue to die on the hill marked "it would be completely mad for a PM with 400 seats and 3 years left in a government term to call an early election which is all but certain to weaken his party." www.arguably.uk/p/dont-be-a-...
Don’t be a bottler, Burnham
The next PM should learn from Gordon Brown’s mistake and call an early election
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I took the quiz. Turns out I'm not very right wing at all! Check yours: moryscarter.com/vespr/starpl...
Your Right Wing Archetype Political Profile Results
Looks like you're not very right wing at all!
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What Labour centrists thinks the average Polanski supporting Green is like: 65 yr old Marxist Leninist man who thinks feminism is bourgeois and we shouldn’t arm Ukraine What they actually are: A 28 yr old HR girly in south London who went on pro 🇵🇸 marches and has an immigrant partner
5 years ago I commissioned a local artist to create a multiverse picture of myself and my partner. Every year we update it. 2026 version.
