James Beech

Qualified and internationally experienced multimedia editor-in-chief and journalist. Views my own 🇪🇺🇳🇿🇦🇺

[James Beech @jwgbeech]

🏨 Checking in at a favourite hotel for New Year’s Eve

🕛 Hello 2026, Goodbye 2025

🎇 Happy New Year!

#HappyNewYear
#WesAnderson
#TheGrandBudapestHotel

[James Beech @jwgbeech]

🦋 Now happily posting as @ https://t.co/1Fo0OvWBqA on Bluesky

#Bluesky #BlueskySocial @bluesky #Twitter #X

[James Beech @jwgbeech]

🇳🇿 Utterly absorbed and kept guessing by After the Party, the revelatory six-part TV drama series from Aotearoa New Zealand and on @Channel4 in the UK

🥝 Robyn Malcolm and Peter Mullan are hypnotically good, as always

#AfterTheParty @TVNZ @itvstudios https://t.co/cZAzfoheKB

[James Beech @jwgbeech]

🇬🇧 The UK is now one of the few standard-bearers of the post-war centre-left progressive world order

🌎 Of course, seditious tech bros, frothing right-wing grifters, self-appointed woke-finder generals and deranged tyrants are attacking us

🇪🇺 All the more reason to #RejoinEU

[James Beech @jwgbeech]

👑 King Henry VIII: “And, by God, I am offended too!

“I take it ill to be instructed by the folk of Lincolnshire, one of the most brute and beastly shires in all the realm.”

📺 Home county on TV!

#WolfHall #Lincolnshire @BBCiPlayer https://t.co/f5zHOHcdJA

[James Beech @jwgbeech]

Always intriguing to see how the 1990s are remembered and retold for modern audiences

Loaded: Lads, Mags and Mayhem is one of the better accounts and curiously poignant

#Loaded @BBCiPlayer https://t.co/Veqz5bgdGZ

[James Beech @jwgbeech]

“And after many generations, long after I’m gone, their memory will’ve been blotted out.

“No one will ever believe the poor once bowed and scraped to stocks of wood and prayed to lumps of plaster.”

✝️ Thomas Cromwell in #WolfHall The Mirror and the Light https://t.co/6mu43dodIg

[James Beech @jwgbeech]

⚔️ Russell Crowe and Hans Zimmer are much missed from Gladiator II

🙈 Mad CGI baboons would not have been

👑 Connie Nielsen's character Lucilla deserved better

😐 Gladiator III seems inevitable

#GladiatorII ⭐️⭐️⭐️
https://t.co/wrhlofRyM5

[James Beech @jwgbeech]

📽️ Everyman clearly had the confidence to open this month a lovely five-screen #cinema in Cambridge

🍿 Despite Vue, The Light and Arts Picturehouse operating, Cineworlds in three nearby towns and the derelict Central Cinema given a reprieve

@thetimes https://t.co/r951zFvmnK

[James Beech @jwgbeech]

🇺🇸 United States Presidential Inauguration: 20 January, 2025

🗳️ Road to the US 2026 midterm election: 21 January, 2025

#USElection2024 #Trump

[James Beech @jwgbeech]

Hot wheels: Some 3,000 gleaming vehicles, plus scores of exhibitors, traders, auctions, clubs and panel discussions, in six halls for the 40th Classic Motor Show, at NEC Birmingham 🚘

#classiccars @ClassicMotorNEC

[James Beech @jwgbeech]

🇬🇧 Will the United States of Trump accelerate the UK’s return to where it belongs?

🇪🇺 As a proactive, progressive leader at the heart of the European Union?

#Trump #Brexit #RejoinEU

@BBCNews @itvnews @Channel4News @thetimes @guardian @RestIsPolitics @TheNewsAgents @UKLabour

[James Beech @jwgbeech]

👑 A narcissistic sociopathic misogynist tyrant, a grotesque appeased by flunkeys, who changed the world for his own benefit

🐺 Rewatching the excellent Wolf Hall in preparation for the new series Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light

#WolfHall @BBCiPlayer https://t.co/LFxBRLpxO3

[James Beech @jwgbeech]

🇺🇸 The American world order, 1945 to 2025

⛽️ Sold for the promise of cheaper gas

#Election2024 #Trump #Trump2024

[James Beech @jwgbeech]

👑 As the US elects Mad King Donald I, thoughts with American women and girls and the citizens of Ukraine.

🇪🇺 Time for the UK to rejoin the EU

#Election2024 #Trump #RejoinEU https://t.co/RDrCPXojmy

[James Beech @jwgbeech]

🗳️ That sinking feeling the 237-year-old Electoral College will eclipse the popular vote and change the course of global history for the worse

🇺🇸 Just as it did with Gore v Bush in 2000 and Clinton v Trump in 2016

#USDemocracy #USElection2024 #Harris #Trump

[James Beech @jwgbeech]

🗞️ Tax-cut fixated media clutching its pearls over the Labour government's Budget

💷 Conveniently forgetting that the Tories fleeced us via stealth taxes for years, but we didn't get the benefits, as evident by our crumbling country

#Labour #Budget #tax https://t.co/PJHBBBIBOs

[James Beech @jwgbeech]

“You think they're so dumb,
You think they're so funny,
Wait until they've got you running to the
Night rally, night rally, night rally”

Elvis Costello, “Night Rally”

#Trump #TrumpRally
#USElection2024
#PresidentialElection2024
@ElvisCostello https://t.co/onPS5z0BDF

[James Beech @jwgbeech]

💷 Nations can see how lonely and desperate broke Brexit Britain is and are moving in with debts unpaid

🗞️ Imagine how apoplectic with rage the right-wing gutter press would be if the UK paid a single penny in reparation

#CHOGM2024 #reparations https://t.co/h9ajC3n1Gz

[James Beech @jwgbeech]

“Unaccountable: How I Shafted the British People For My Own Gain and Got Away With It”

Coming soon to a remainder bin near you

📚 #BorisJohnson #Unleashed #books