Ian Beestin
@ianbeestin.bsky.social
Founder: Belper Jazz Company
Co-founder: Consumer Duty (the band)
Co-founder: Money Alive
Member: Rattus Inheritus
Member: Metz Jnr Trio
Co-founder: Consumer Duty (the band)
Co-founder: Money Alive
Member: Rattus Inheritus
Member: Metz Jnr Trio
Just two tickets left for singer Jeanie Barton’s Christmas Special gig with the Belper Jazz Company on Sunday 7th December. The performance takes place in the warm and welcoming surroundings of No.28, Belper.
November 19, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Just two tickets left for singer Jeanie Barton’s Christmas Special gig with the Belper Jazz Company on Sunday 7th December. The performance takes place in the warm and welcoming surroundings of No.28, Belper.
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I am moving to Dubai because England is so dangerous. www.ft.com/content/9bf6...
November 19, 2025 at 2:03 PM
I am moving to Dubai because England is so dangerous. www.ft.com/content/9bf6...
Dance like you’re down in the sewer…
Some seriously good moves going down in Gateshead on Saturday night. If you fancy a boogie Rattus’s next gigs are in Bridlington Nov 29th, Norwich Dec 12th and London Dec 13th.
Some seriously good moves going down in Gateshead on Saturday night. If you fancy a boogie Rattus’s next gigs are in Bridlington Nov 29th, Norwich Dec 12th and London Dec 13th.
November 18, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Dance like you’re down in the sewer…
Some seriously good moves going down in Gateshead on Saturday night. If you fancy a boogie Rattus’s next gigs are in Bridlington Nov 29th, Norwich Dec 12th and London Dec 13th.
Some seriously good moves going down in Gateshead on Saturday night. If you fancy a boogie Rattus’s next gigs are in Bridlington Nov 29th, Norwich Dec 12th and London Dec 13th.
‘A Night In Tuna-isia’
‘My Funny Valen-Thai’ - what other tunes should the Belper Jazz Company be performing at its Food Festival Special gig today?
November 16, 2025 at 11:37 AM
‘A Night In Tuna-isia’
‘My Funny Valen-Thai’ - what other tunes should the Belper Jazz Company be performing at its Food Festival Special gig today?
November 16, 2025 at 7:58 AM
‘My Funny Valen-Thai’ - what other tunes should the Belper Jazz Company be performing at its Food Festival Special gig today?
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He stees you when you're stleeping.
November 15, 2025 at 2:08 PM
He stees you when you're stleeping.
Ten points if you can name the tune @thefastshow.bsky.social. An extra twenty points if you can name the composer…
November 16, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Ten points if you can name the tune @thefastshow.bsky.social. An extra twenty points if you can name the composer…
Brizzle in the drizzle.
November 14, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Brizzle in the drizzle.
People love the work of the Stranglers but few are aware of their efforts to reunite people with their lost pensions…(currently worth in excess of £31bn).
November 14, 2025 at 5:10 PM
People love the work of the Stranglers but few are aware of their efforts to reunite people with their lost pensions…(currently worth in excess of £31bn).
“It rainin, duck gone” was my youngest daughter’s first ever sentence.
‘Duck gone’ became our family shorthand for describing days like this.
‘Duck gone’ became our family shorthand for describing days like this.
November 14, 2025 at 3:14 PM
“It rainin, duck gone” was my youngest daughter’s first ever sentence.
‘Duck gone’ became our family shorthand for describing days like this.
‘Duck gone’ became our family shorthand for describing days like this.
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Someone threw a bottle of Omega-3 pills at me.
Injuries were super fish oil.
Injuries were super fish oil.
November 13, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Someone threw a bottle of Omega-3 pills at me.
Injuries were super fish oil.
Injuries were super fish oil.
Can you name that tune?
November 13, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Can you name that tune?
Greg Abate and the Belper Jazz Company headed up north Sunday to put on a show at Bakewell Town Hall. Lovely to get this email from a happy Peter about his experience of the show.
November 12, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Greg Abate and the Belper Jazz Company headed up north Sunday to put on a show at Bakewell Town Hall. Lovely to get this email from a happy Peter about his experience of the show.
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"Surely the clearest indication of the BBC's fundamental truthfulness and integrity is the number of known liars who wish to destroy it."
Isabella Stone
Sheffield
Isabella Stone
Sheffield
November 12, 2025 at 7:33 AM
"Surely the clearest indication of the BBC's fundamental truthfulness and integrity is the number of known liars who wish to destroy it."
Isabella Stone
Sheffield
Isabella Stone
Sheffield
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If we're talking about bias, why do BBC politics programmes, from Politics Live to the Laura Kuennsberg Show, still always begin with a look at the newspaper front pages, which are overwhelmingly biased in one direction. Helps frame the entire news agenda and debate in their favour
November 11, 2025 at 1:09 PM
If we're talking about bias, why do BBC politics programmes, from Politics Live to the Laura Kuennsberg Show, still always begin with a look at the newspaper front pages, which are overwhelmingly biased in one direction. Helps frame the entire news agenda and debate in their favour
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SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten.
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
November 10, 2025 at 6:40 PM
SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten.
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
Happy Days - Rattus return to The Black Bull, Gateshead, this Saturday to perform the music of the Stranglers live.
Thanks to Steve Wright for the pic.
Thanks to Steve Wright for the pic.
November 10, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Happy Days - Rattus return to The Black Bull, Gateshead, this Saturday to perform the music of the Stranglers live.
Thanks to Steve Wright for the pic.
Thanks to Steve Wright for the pic.
“America needs to get back to the 2 and 4. At the moment it’s clapping on the 1 and 3.”
Exceptional political analysis from US sax great Greg Abate who, thanks to @jocaulfield.bsky.social, I had the pleasure of performing with in Bakewell last night.
Exceptional political analysis from US sax great Greg Abate who, thanks to @jocaulfield.bsky.social, I had the pleasure of performing with in Bakewell last night.
November 10, 2025 at 2:20 PM
“America needs to get back to the 2 and 4. At the moment it’s clapping on the 1 and 3.”
Exceptional political analysis from US sax great Greg Abate who, thanks to @jocaulfield.bsky.social, I had the pleasure of performing with in Bakewell last night.
Exceptional political analysis from US sax great Greg Abate who, thanks to @jocaulfield.bsky.social, I had the pleasure of performing with in Bakewell last night.
This guy, Mr Basu. He made such a difference to my family’s life as well Debbie’s. Not only an exceptional brain surgeon but he makes greeting cards too (but not at the same time): www.nottinghamhospitalscharity.org.uk/news/debbies...
Fundraising For Surgeon Who Saved Life
Debbie wanted to say thank you to the surgeon who saver her husbands life by fundraising through handbags
www.nottinghamhospitalscharity.org.uk
November 10, 2025 at 2:17 PM
This guy, Mr Basu. He made such a difference to my family’s life as well Debbie’s. Not only an exceptional brain surgeon but he makes greeting cards too (but not at the same time): www.nottinghamhospitalscharity.org.uk/news/debbies...
“Wealth seems to scramble certain cognitive functions, particularly those related to empathy and perspective.”
This week's column is on Billionaire Brain: the condition which seems to prevent extremely rich people from perceiving the utterly bleeding obvious.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I wish we could ignore Bill Gates on the climate crisis. But he’s a billionaire, so we can’t | George Monbiot
Money talks – and his essay denouncing ‘near-term emissions goals’ at Cop30 mostly argues the case for letting the ultra-rich off the hook
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 8:23 AM
“Wealth seems to scramble certain cognitive functions, particularly those related to empathy and perspective.”
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Well done @coldwarsteve.bsky.social, bravo! 👏🏻
November 8, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Well done @coldwarsteve.bsky.social, bravo! 👏🏻
Whoever won the East Midlands Trains signage contract did so in spite of their elevator pitch.
November 7, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Whoever won the East Midlands Trains signage contract did so in spite of their elevator pitch.
November 7, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Steely Dan fans take note…
November 7, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Steely Dan fans take note…
Not sure the staff and students of the Uni Of Nottingham’s Music Department will find these banners, prominently displayed next to their beloved facility, particularly ‘exciting’. The uni has just announced that undergraduate music courses are being suspended. Link to petition in comments.
#tonedeaf
#tonedeaf
November 7, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Not sure the staff and students of the Uni Of Nottingham’s Music Department will find these banners, prominently displayed next to their beloved facility, particularly ‘exciting’. The uni has just announced that undergraduate music courses are being suspended. Link to petition in comments.
#tonedeaf
#tonedeaf