James Beech
@jamesbeech.bsky.social
Qualified and internationally experienced multimedia editor-in-chief and journalist. Views my own 🇪🇺🇳🇿🇦🇺
☔️ Adoring “Rainy Sunday Afternoon,” the new album and the first in six years from The Divine Comedy
☕️ Neil Hannon’s richly melodic and poignant ruminations on the personal and political
💔 “The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter” is an early standout track
📷 @divinecomedyhq.bsky.social @banquetrecords.com
☕️ Neil Hannon’s richly melodic and poignant ruminations on the personal and political
💔 “The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter” is an early standout track
📷 @divinecomedyhq.bsky.social @banquetrecords.com
September 20, 2025 at 7:00 PM
☔️ Adoring “Rainy Sunday Afternoon,” the new album and the first in six years from The Divine Comedy
☕️ Neil Hannon’s richly melodic and poignant ruminations on the personal and political
💔 “The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter” is an early standout track
📷 @divinecomedyhq.bsky.social @banquetrecords.com
☕️ Neil Hannon’s richly melodic and poignant ruminations on the personal and political
💔 “The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter” is an early standout track
📷 @divinecomedyhq.bsky.social @banquetrecords.com
🗓️ It’s a funny old 2025
🎶 Oasis, Supergrass on tour, Blur reissue, Pulp at Glasto, music from Manics, Suede, Ash, Robbie Williams, Garbage, Stereophonics, Richard Ashcroft and The Divine Comedy
🦖 Jurassic film
🍏 The Beatles Anthology
📱 It’s the 1990s but with smartphones and existential dread
🎶 Oasis, Supergrass on tour, Blur reissue, Pulp at Glasto, music from Manics, Suede, Ash, Robbie Williams, Garbage, Stereophonics, Richard Ashcroft and The Divine Comedy
🦖 Jurassic film
🍏 The Beatles Anthology
📱 It’s the 1990s but with smartphones and existential dread
September 1, 2025 at 9:00 PM
🗓️ It’s a funny old 2025
🎶 Oasis, Supergrass on tour, Blur reissue, Pulp at Glasto, music from Manics, Suede, Ash, Robbie Williams, Garbage, Stereophonics, Richard Ashcroft and The Divine Comedy
🦖 Jurassic film
🍏 The Beatles Anthology
📱 It’s the 1990s but with smartphones and existential dread
🎶 Oasis, Supergrass on tour, Blur reissue, Pulp at Glasto, music from Manics, Suede, Ash, Robbie Williams, Garbage, Stereophonics, Richard Ashcroft and The Divine Comedy
🦖 Jurassic film
🍏 The Beatles Anthology
📱 It’s the 1990s but with smartphones and existential dread
🌍 Fascinating travel and tourism insights and inspirations galore at the packed New Destinations Summit 2025, hosted by Newsweek at Shangri-La The Shard, London today
#NewDestinationsSummit #travel #tourism #conference #Newsweek #TheShard #London
@newsweek.com events.newsweek.com/newdestinati...
#NewDestinationsSummit #travel #tourism #conference #Newsweek #TheShard #London
@newsweek.com events.newsweek.com/newdestinati...
July 3, 2025 at 2:00 PM
🌍 Fascinating travel and tourism insights and inspirations galore at the packed New Destinations Summit 2025, hosted by Newsweek at Shangri-La The Shard, London today
#NewDestinationsSummit #travel #tourism #conference #Newsweek #TheShard #London
@newsweek.com events.newsweek.com/newdestinati...
#NewDestinationsSummit #travel #tourism #conference #Newsweek #TheShard #London
@newsweek.com events.newsweek.com/newdestinati...
🏡 Through the keyholes: Popping in to see the influential childhood homes of John Lennon and Paul McCartney in the leafy suburbs of Liverpool
#TheBeatlesChildhoodHomes
#JohnLennon #PaulMcCartney
#TheBeatles #Liverpool 🍏
@nationaltrust.org.uk
#TheBeatlesChildhoodHomes
#JohnLennon #PaulMcCartney
#TheBeatles #Liverpool 🍏
@nationaltrust.org.uk
July 2, 2025 at 7:00 AM
🏡 Through the keyholes: Popping in to see the influential childhood homes of John Lennon and Paul McCartney in the leafy suburbs of Liverpool
#TheBeatlesChildhoodHomes
#JohnLennon #PaulMcCartney
#TheBeatles #Liverpool 🍏
@nationaltrust.org.uk
#TheBeatlesChildhoodHomes
#JohnLennon #PaulMcCartney
#TheBeatles #Liverpool 🍏
@nationaltrust.org.uk
Here, there and everywhere: Got back to the fab Beatles Story museum in Liverpool 🎤🎸🎹🎺🎻🥁🍏
#TheBeatlesStory #TheBeatles
#TheBeatlesStory #TheBeatles
July 1, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Here, there and everywhere: Got back to the fab Beatles Story museum in Liverpool 🎤🎸🎹🎺🎻🥁🍏
#TheBeatlesStory #TheBeatles
#TheBeatlesStory #TheBeatles
Iron men: Admiring some of the 100 sculptures that make up Another Place by Antony Gormley at Crosby Beach, Liverpool, Merseyside
#art #Liverpool
#art #Liverpool
July 1, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Iron men: Admiring some of the 100 sculptures that make up Another Place by Antony Gormley at Crosby Beach, Liverpool, Merseyside
#art #Liverpool
#art #Liverpool
The sun rising: Book ending Winter Solstice 2023 with Summer Solstice 2025 at Stonehenge 🌅
#SummerSolstice #Stonehenge
@englishheritage.bsky.social
#SummerSolstice #Stonehenge
@englishheritage.bsky.social
June 21, 2025 at 10:00 PM
The sun rising: Book ending Winter Solstice 2023 with Summer Solstice 2025 at Stonehenge 🌅
#SummerSolstice #Stonehenge
@englishheritage.bsky.social
#SummerSolstice #Stonehenge
@englishheritage.bsky.social
What’s in store: Marvelling at the treasures on display at the new V&A East Storehouse on it’s popular opening day 🖼️🏺👗👘🎭
#VAEastStorehouse #Stratford
#VAEastStorehouse #Stratford
June 1, 2025 at 7:00 AM
What’s in store: Marvelling at the treasures on display at the new V&A East Storehouse on it’s popular opening day 🖼️🏺👗👘🎭
#VAEastStorehouse #Stratford
#VAEastStorehouse #Stratford
🐺 The Clearing vinyl pre-ordered and concert tickets booked for Wolf Alice off the bat of the London band's barnstormer of a new single, Bloom Baby Bloom
🎤 Singer Ellie Rowsell has the most phenomenal vocal capabilities in rock today
#newmusic #WolfAlice #vinyl #concerts youtu.be/lBGcloF8LIY?...
🎤 Singer Ellie Rowsell has the most phenomenal vocal capabilities in rock today
#newmusic #WolfAlice #vinyl #concerts youtu.be/lBGcloF8LIY?...
Wolf Alice - Bloom Baby Bloom (Official Video)
YouTube video by WolfAliceVEVO
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May 21, 2025 at 11:00 AM
🐺 The Clearing vinyl pre-ordered and concert tickets booked for Wolf Alice off the bat of the London band's barnstormer of a new single, Bloom Baby Bloom
🎤 Singer Ellie Rowsell has the most phenomenal vocal capabilities in rock today
#newmusic #WolfAlice #vinyl #concerts youtu.be/lBGcloF8LIY?...
🎤 Singer Ellie Rowsell has the most phenomenal vocal capabilities in rock today
#newmusic #WolfAlice #vinyl #concerts youtu.be/lBGcloF8LIY?...
📰 Predictable shrieking distortions of the new mild, pragmatic UK-EU deal by the berserker Brexit press
🗞️ Why do the four horsemen of Brexit—The Sun, Daily Mail, Daily Express and Daily Telegraph—want the UK to fail
#UKEUDeal #Brexit #RejoinEU #media #newspapers www.bbc.com/news/article...
🗞️ Why do the four horsemen of Brexit—The Sun, Daily Mail, Daily Express and Daily Telegraph—want the UK to fail
#UKEUDeal #Brexit #RejoinEU #media #newspapers www.bbc.com/news/article...
Newspaper headlines: 'UK condemns Israel' and 'Brexit reset'
Reaction to the UK's new trade deal with the EU dominated the front pages of Tuesday's papers.
www.bbc.com
May 20, 2025 at 6:00 AM
📰 Predictable shrieking distortions of the new mild, pragmatic UK-EU deal by the berserker Brexit press
🗞️ Why do the four horsemen of Brexit—The Sun, Daily Mail, Daily Express and Daily Telegraph—want the UK to fail
#UKEUDeal #Brexit #RejoinEU #media #newspapers www.bbc.com/news/article...
🗞️ Why do the four horsemen of Brexit—The Sun, Daily Mail, Daily Express and Daily Telegraph—want the UK to fail
#UKEUDeal #Brexit #RejoinEU #media #newspapers www.bbc.com/news/article...
🇪🇺 Labour should move “further and faster” towards the UK (England/Wales) rejoining the EU and repairing Brexit damage
🐟 Deform and the Tories know what they can do with their precious fish
🗳️ It’s the “will of the people”
@teamlabouruk.bsky.social
#Brexit #RejoinEU www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
🐟 Deform and the Tories know what they can do with their precious fish
🗳️ It’s the “will of the people”
@teamlabouruk.bsky.social
#Brexit #RejoinEU www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
UK-EU deal moves on from Brexit rows, Starmer says
The deal covers defence, trade, fishing, and a possible youth scheme, in the first big reset since Brexit.
www.bbc.co.uk
May 19, 2025 at 8:00 PM
🇪🇺 Labour should move “further and faster” towards the UK (England/Wales) rejoining the EU and repairing Brexit damage
🐟 Deform and the Tories know what they can do with their precious fish
🗳️ It’s the “will of the people”
@teamlabouruk.bsky.social
#Brexit #RejoinEU www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
🐟 Deform and the Tories know what they can do with their precious fish
🗳️ It’s the “will of the people”
@teamlabouruk.bsky.social
#Brexit #RejoinEU www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
🎶 Enjoying the one night of the year that monolingual UK media actually pays attention to the UK’s nearest neighbours
🇪🇺 #Eurovision #Europe #RejoinEU
@eurovision.tv @bbciplayer.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
🇪🇺 #Eurovision #Europe #RejoinEU
@eurovision.tv @bbciplayer.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Eurovision Song Contest - 2025: Grand Final
Girlband Remember Monday fly the flag for the UK with their song What The Hell Just Happened?, as Graham Norton provides his iconic commentary – live from Basel, Switzerland.
www.bbc.co.uk
May 17, 2025 at 10:00 PM
🎶 Enjoying the one night of the year that monolingual UK media actually pays attention to the UK’s nearest neighbours
🇪🇺 #Eurovision #Europe #RejoinEU
@eurovision.tv @bbciplayer.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
🇪🇺 #Eurovision #Europe #RejoinEU
@eurovision.tv @bbciplayer.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
🌅 Perfect Spring conditions to enjoy sunset, in a quirk of geography, on the English east coast at Hunstanton
#Hunstanton #Norfolk #sunset
#Hunstanton #Norfolk #sunset
May 17, 2025 at 7:00 AM
🌅 Perfect Spring conditions to enjoy sunset, in a quirk of geography, on the English east coast at Hunstanton
#Hunstanton #Norfolk #sunset
#Hunstanton #Norfolk #sunset
💥 Milton Keynes goes pop: More than 130 artworks by Andy Warhol (1928-1987) are presented in Andy Warhol: Portrait of America at MK Gallery
🇺🇸 Including the artist’s renowned Marilyn series and fascinations on consumerism, sexuality, celebrity and mortality
#AndyWarhol #MKGallery
@tate.bsky.social
🇺🇸 Including the artist’s renowned Marilyn series and fascinations on consumerism, sexuality, celebrity and mortality
#AndyWarhol #MKGallery
@tate.bsky.social
April 22, 2025 at 12:00 PM
💥 Milton Keynes goes pop: More than 130 artworks by Andy Warhol (1928-1987) are presented in Andy Warhol: Portrait of America at MK Gallery
🇺🇸 Including the artist’s renowned Marilyn series and fascinations on consumerism, sexuality, celebrity and mortality
#AndyWarhol #MKGallery
@tate.bsky.social
🇺🇸 Including the artist’s renowned Marilyn series and fascinations on consumerism, sexuality, celebrity and mortality
#AndyWarhol #MKGallery
@tate.bsky.social
✝️ St Andrew’s Church, Greensted, Essex is hailed as the oldest wooden church in the world, with timber dating back to 1060 and evidence of timber structures on site even further back to the 6th century
#Easter
#Easter
April 20, 2025 at 8:00 PM
✝️ St Andrew’s Church, Greensted, Essex is hailed as the oldest wooden church in the world, with timber dating back to 1060 and evidence of timber structures on site even further back to the 6th century
#Easter
#Easter
🐣 Happy Easter from the serene St Andrew’s Church, Greensted, Essex, the oldest wooden church in the world, with timber dating back to 1060
✝️ #StAndrewsChurch #Greensted
#Easter #TikTok vm.tiktok.com/ZNdYA9aPJ/
✝️ #StAndrewsChurch #Greensted
#Easter #TikTok vm.tiktok.com/ZNdYA9aPJ/
TikTok - Make Your Day
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April 20, 2025 at 3:00 PM
🐣 Happy Easter from the serene St Andrew’s Church, Greensted, Essex, the oldest wooden church in the world, with timber dating back to 1060
✝️ #StAndrewsChurch #Greensted
#Easter #TikTok vm.tiktok.com/ZNdYA9aPJ/
✝️ #StAndrewsChurch #Greensted
#Easter #TikTok vm.tiktok.com/ZNdYA9aPJ/
🏚️ Taking the highway to the danger zone in Wiltshire to visit the abandoned parish of Imber during its Easter open days
💥 Millennia of remote and self-reliant human habitation at Imber Down ended just before Christmas 1943 when the War Department ordered all villagers to evacuate
#Imber #Wiltshire
💥 Millennia of remote and self-reliant human habitation at Imber Down ended just before Christmas 1943 when the War Department ordered all villagers to evacuate
#Imber #Wiltshire
April 19, 2025 at 9:00 AM
🏚️ Taking the highway to the danger zone in Wiltshire to visit the abandoned parish of Imber during its Easter open days
💥 Millennia of remote and self-reliant human habitation at Imber Down ended just before Christmas 1943 when the War Department ordered all villagers to evacuate
#Imber #Wiltshire
💥 Millennia of remote and self-reliant human habitation at Imber Down ended just before Christmas 1943 when the War Department ordered all villagers to evacuate
#Imber #Wiltshire
💀 Body and soul: Checking on my “four humours” and the diagnosis is fascinating at Curious Cures: Medicine in the Medieval World, at Cambridge University Library
🩸 #CuriousCures #CambridgeUniversityLibrary #Cambridge @theul.bsky.social
🩸 #CuriousCures #CambridgeUniversityLibrary #Cambridge @theul.bsky.social
April 16, 2025 at 7:00 AM
💀 Body and soul: Checking on my “four humours” and the diagnosis is fascinating at Curious Cures: Medicine in the Medieval World, at Cambridge University Library
🩸 #CuriousCures #CambridgeUniversityLibrary #Cambridge @theul.bsky.social
🩸 #CuriousCures #CambridgeUniversityLibrary #Cambridge @theul.bsky.social
⚔️ Wonderful to hear the new single Achilles by The Divine Comedy
📎 Ushering in their 13th studio album, Rainy Sunday Afternoon, the first since Office Politics in 2019
#TheDivineComedy #Achilles #RainySundayAfternoon
@divinecomedyhq.bsky.social
@bbc6music.bsky.social #6music
thedivinecomedy.com
📎 Ushering in their 13th studio album, Rainy Sunday Afternoon, the first since Office Politics in 2019
#TheDivineComedy #Achilles #RainySundayAfternoon
@divinecomedyhq.bsky.social
@bbc6music.bsky.social #6music
thedivinecomedy.com
April 8, 2025 at 4:15 PM
⚔️ Wonderful to hear the new single Achilles by The Divine Comedy
📎 Ushering in their 13th studio album, Rainy Sunday Afternoon, the first since Office Politics in 2019
#TheDivineComedy #Achilles #RainySundayAfternoon
@divinecomedyhq.bsky.social
@bbc6music.bsky.social #6music
thedivinecomedy.com
📎 Ushering in their 13th studio album, Rainy Sunday Afternoon, the first since Office Politics in 2019
#TheDivineComedy #Achilles #RainySundayAfternoon
@divinecomedyhq.bsky.social
@bbc6music.bsky.social #6music
thedivinecomedy.com
⛰️ Admiring the serene and beautiful Windermere at Ambleside in the glorious Lake District
🌊 Despite what disgusting water companies do to our waterways with impunity
#Ambleside #LakeDistrict #Cumbria
🌊 Despite what disgusting water companies do to our waterways with impunity
#Ambleside #LakeDistrict #Cumbria
April 1, 2025 at 8:00 PM
⛰️ Admiring the serene and beautiful Windermere at Ambleside in the glorious Lake District
🌊 Despite what disgusting water companies do to our waterways with impunity
#Ambleside #LakeDistrict #Cumbria
🌊 Despite what disgusting water companies do to our waterways with impunity
#Ambleside #LakeDistrict #Cumbria
🦠 On this day, five years ago, the UK's most incompetent, negligent and venal PM announced the first lockdown, ordering everyone to “stay at home”
😷 Like Brexit, the pandemic's avoidable generational impact on our society is evident everyday
#Covid19 #lockdown #OTD youtu.be/Z2ypbACGn9w?...
😷 Like Brexit, the pandemic's avoidable generational impact on our society is evident everyday
#Covid19 #lockdown #OTD youtu.be/Z2ypbACGn9w?...
The Coronavirus in London: Quiet Landmarks and Empty Streets
YouTube video by James Beech
youtu.be
March 23, 2025 at 7:00 AM
🦠 On this day, five years ago, the UK's most incompetent, negligent and venal PM announced the first lockdown, ordering everyone to “stay at home”
😷 Like Brexit, the pandemic's avoidable generational impact on our society is evident everyday
#Covid19 #lockdown #OTD youtu.be/Z2ypbACGn9w?...
😷 Like Brexit, the pandemic's avoidable generational impact on our society is evident everyday
#Covid19 #lockdown #OTD youtu.be/Z2ypbACGn9w?...
✈️ We have to go back: Fascinating deep-dive into the unforgettable series Lost in the top doc Getting Lost
🏝️ Flashback to that dawn of the “golden age” of prestige TV, internet, social media and podcasts, DVDS, streaming, fandom and Easter eggs
🐻❄️ #Lost #GettingLost youtu.be/MM7Lv_uV7mM?...
🏝️ Flashback to that dawn of the “golden age” of prestige TV, internet, social media and podcasts, DVDS, streaming, fandom and Easter eggs
🐻❄️ #Lost #GettingLost youtu.be/MM7Lv_uV7mM?...
Getting LOST | Official Trailer (4K)
YouTube video by Getting LOST
youtu.be
March 20, 2025 at 9:00 PM
✈️ We have to go back: Fascinating deep-dive into the unforgettable series Lost in the top doc Getting Lost
🏝️ Flashback to that dawn of the “golden age” of prestige TV, internet, social media and podcasts, DVDS, streaming, fandom and Easter eggs
🐻❄️ #Lost #GettingLost youtu.be/MM7Lv_uV7mM?...
🏝️ Flashback to that dawn of the “golden age” of prestige TV, internet, social media and podcasts, DVDS, streaming, fandom and Easter eggs
🐻❄️ #Lost #GettingLost youtu.be/MM7Lv_uV7mM?...
🍏 A shared grief but Lennon was not above using it to needle McCartney
🪦 Sequencing a throwaway cover of a folk song about a thieving Liverpudlian prostitute straight after Paul's heartfelt appeal for help to his late mother on Let It Be is a low blow
#TheBeatles www.thetimes.com/culture/musi...
🪦 Sequencing a throwaway cover of a folk song about a thieving Liverpudlian prostitute straight after Paul's heartfelt appeal for help to his late mother on Let It Be is a low blow
#TheBeatles www.thetimes.com/culture/musi...
John Lennon, Paul McCartney and the grief that united two lost teens
When Lennon met McCartney the 20th century tilted on its axis. In an extract from his brilliant new book, Ian Leslie asks why they fell for each other — starting with the shared trauma of their mother...
www.thetimes.com
March 16, 2025 at 5:00 PM
🍏 A shared grief but Lennon was not above using it to needle McCartney
🪦 Sequencing a throwaway cover of a folk song about a thieving Liverpudlian prostitute straight after Paul's heartfelt appeal for help to his late mother on Let It Be is a low blow
#TheBeatles www.thetimes.com/culture/musi...
🪦 Sequencing a throwaway cover of a folk song about a thieving Liverpudlian prostitute straight after Paul's heartfelt appeal for help to his late mother on Let It Be is a low blow
#TheBeatles www.thetimes.com/culture/musi...