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Richard Beach

@mrseaside.bsky.social
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Short, Nerd, Jew, AFOL, Centrist Dad. Antisemites and judeofascists equally unwelcome. Author of "Ten Lies My Family Told me”. Occasional Gaming Project Director.

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Richard Beach @mrseaside.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"It's been a joy to watch" says this commentator over yet another binfire which only helps those who see Israel/Palestine as a simple case of goodies and baddies while Jews and Palestinians suffer bigotry and worsening oppression. This commentator can fuck all the way off.
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Richard Beach @mrseaside.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Which TV "news" channel was it that these two were regular faces on - does anyone remember?
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Seth Polansky @sethpolansky.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Yes. That is the EXACT message I've been screaming at you since 2018.
twitter post showing that boomers are starting to realize that other people might think they're bad people for supporting trump.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Anyone supporting this motion is, at best, an imbecile. More likely they're a straight up cunt. If Polanski backs it, it would be an outrage. But even his failure to speak out against it is pretty damning. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Greens urge Zack Polanski to take stance on proposed policy declaring ‘Zionism is racism’
The Green leader has not spoken publicly about the motion, which is likely to be debated at the party’s conference in October
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Richard Beach @mrseaside.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Absolutely essential thread here.
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Richard Beach @mrseaside.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Great thread here.
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Jason Sinclair @jsinclair.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Thought this must be a tape and a reaction to something else spliced together, but no, he really is that grotesque.
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Richard Beach @mrseaside.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Can we place sanctions on the "independent" village of Piddington for being racist NIMBY arseholes?
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Very nice to hear a sane voice from Piddington. Serious respect to this woman, who is apparently already being othered by more bigoted villagers.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This godforesaken piece of shit will get his arse handed to him, as he has elsewhere. One of the most straightforwardly venal and despicable men in British politics.
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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
One more time: Inheritance tax *is not unique or even uncommon* in being "double taxation". The coffee I just bought was paid for with wages on which income tax and NI had been levied, but was also subject to VAT. Just stop it.
elen Whately: “One of the problems with inheritance tax is that it's a form of double taxation.
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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
People are always trying to entice introverts out of their comfort zone and "let their hair down" a little. Why doesn't anyone ever ask extroverts to calm down and shut the fuck up for a few minutes?
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Richard Beach @mrseaside.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
A couple of Rosh Hashanah thoughts for a troubled world:
On Saturday - the first day of the New Year - the Torah reading is Bereishit (Genesis) chapter 21. Isaac is born, circumcised and named as Abraham's heir - but much of the reading concerns his older brother Ishmael. God tells both Abraham and Ishmael's mother Hagar that he will be the father of a great nation. Ishmael - the biblical progenitor of the Arab nations - is presented positively in the Torah. In fact the next time we hear of him - in Chapter 25 - it's Isaac and Ishmael that bury their father Abraham together, standing side by side.
The reading then moves on to an interaction between Abraham and Abimelech, a 'native' inhabitant of Canaan at the time. They have a dispute over a well, which ends with a peace agreement - both sides agree to give something up, and resolve to live alongside each other in peace.
May we see, even if it looks distant right now, a New Year 5787 of peace and security for all, where we can build on the positive and optimistic parts of our tradition - they're not hard to find. Wishing friends, family and everyone else health, happiness and freedom from fear as we celebrate the New Year. May your apples be crunchy, your honey sweet, your pomegranates fruitful and your shul services not too long. Shana Tova Umetucka Lekulam.
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Richard Beach @mrseaside.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Not as good as yesterday - China’s big, innit! www.maptap.gg September 10 100🎯 97🏅 100🎯 81✨ 93👑 Final score: 919
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Richard Beach @mrseaside.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Another strong day, I’m pleased to report! www.maptap.gg September 9 100🎯 99🔥 99🔥 98🔥 92👑 Final score: 967
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Richard Beach @mrseaside.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
"Deutschland is on the rise again" is LITERALLY a line in Springtime for Hitler from The Producers. This fucking guy.
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Richard Beach @mrseaside.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
A short thread here with which I agree.
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I encourage everyone to listen to Ed Miliband's full statement announcing the UK ban on Israeli West Bank settlement goods. It perfectly captures the anguish of many of us UK Jews who don't want to see Israel destroyed but who are increasingly horrified at Israel's barbarism against Palestinians.
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Richard Beach @mrseaside.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Solid statement from the BoD today. It's not just the UK Govt getting it wrong here - it's very definitely Netanyahu as well.
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Richard Beach @mrseaside.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
This. Very much this.
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Richard Beach @mrseaside.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
A few thoughts:
1. Sanctions on products from Jewish settlements in the occupied (or disputed if you prefer) West Bank (or Judea & Samaria, if you prefer) are probably not going to make the difference that Burnham, Miliband et al would like. On balance, I don't support this move.
2. Having said that, the illegal expansion of settlements in these areas, the settler violence, the intimidation of Palestinians - all this is a Chillul Hashem. We can't be surprised that people are going to respond to this.
3. Some statements from members of the Israeli government in response to the UK's proposed action have been nothing short of deranged. If de-escalation and calm is the right way to act, then pretty much everyone is failing here.
4. As for Mike Huckabee's comments - idiotic and facile. "Sanctions are wrong, so if the UK sanctions settlements then the US will sanction the UK" is just embarrassing.
5. I don't believe that Labour are doing this 'for the Muslim vote'. I believe that they honestly think that this is the right thing to do in the interests of a two-state solution. I'm not sure I agree with the conclusion they've reached, but I sympathise with their motives.
6. Sadly, there will be actual antisemites who will be emboldened by this action. 
7. What REALLY annoys me - and I mean REALLY - is that we have ACTUAL FASCIST BLACKSHIRTS, masked and en masse, taking over the streets of towns in the UK on the pretext of stopping irregular migrants. And we - an immigrant community so proud of Cable Street and all the rest of it - seem absolutely silent about it.
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James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I don't think anyone ever disputes that a small group of masked young lads on a street corner is intimidating. But apparently its a question when it's hundreds of fascists marching down your street. The fuck are we doing here.
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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Truly wild to have lived through moral panics about teenagers wearing hoodies and Muslim women wearing the head dress to now experience 'but is a large group of organised far right activists in balaclavas really that scary'
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 05/09/2026
There's an argument for calling them masked thugs, because that is factually true. There's an argument for calling them pathetic cosplaying loser incels, also true, and laughing at them damages their tough-guy self image and hurts recruitment. There is no argument for calling them protesters.
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LBC @lbc.co.uk · 07/09/2026
This is @mrjamesob.bsky.social's London.
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sasha @2damntrans.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The BBC is complicit in the rise of contemporary British fascism. Most media outlets are, but the BBC is one of the worst offenders.
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I want the Prime Minister to look into a TV camera and say the RNLI are heroes, that we do not change policy by street violence in this country, and that he expects any criminal action to face the full force of the law. That's it. That's all he has to do.
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Nadia Whittome MP @nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
When blackshirts are marching through the streets of Dover and Portsmouth, the focus shouldn’t be on the disruption they cause, but on their fascist ideology and deliberate intimidation of migrants and people of colour. [1/2]
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Richard Beach @mrseaside.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
www.maptap.gg September 6 96🏅 100🎯 100🎯 100🎯 97🏅 Final score: 987
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Richard Beach @mrseaside.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
You can't even take a weapon into a political event now because of woke.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
New immigration stats show that the numbers of asylum seekers in hotels is down to 16k - falling 50% in a year. Small boat crossings down 23% in the year to June. Numbers waiting for initial decision down from almost 180k to 40k.
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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Not sure what’s worse, the two idiot populist party approaches, the Tory approach that believes there is magically hundreds of billions left in efficiency savings, or the Labour belief you can salami slice your way to nirvana bsky.app/profile/alpi...
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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Entirely correct column from Stephen. Unfortunately, our political parties insist on telling us there is a secret fourth option that we can choose
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David F. @dfarb.eurosky.social · 13/08/2026
Everyone needs to have a better understanding of tax! Thank you @richardjmurphy.bsky.social - richardjmurphy.substack.com/p/why-tax?r=...
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Why tax?
What is tax for?
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Richard Beach @mrseaside.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I bet it still has fucking copilot.
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Richard Beach @mrseaside.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I often feel sorry for people who died in this historical period and never got to find out what the BC year numbers were counting down to.
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Richard Beach @mrseaside.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
One can hardly blame people for pointing out that Phillips seems okay with increasingly horrendous Islamophobia, but only when all non-Christians are not in the “us” category does she have a problem.
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Neil Norman And His Cosmic Orchestra @fubsyshabaroon.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
A great film from each year of the 60s: 1960: Carry On Constable 1961: Carry On Regardless 1962: Carry On Cruising 1963: Carry On Cabby 1964: Carry On Cleo 1965: Carry On Cowboy 1966: Carry On Screaming 1967: Carry On Doctor 1968: Carry On Up The Khyber 1969: Carry On Camping #FilmSky
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Richard Beach @mrseaside.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
True, in no uncertain terms, dat.
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Richard Beach @mrseaside.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
"I mean, who among us has not put forward a convicted Neo-Nazi as a candidate for public office?" So predictable from the JC
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Richard Beach @mrseaside.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Lots of debate in my TL right now about the phrase "legitimate concerns", mostly as comments on/about this fair point. I have thoughts.... 1/x
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John C @badsocialism.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
"are there any bad @stephencollins.bsky.social cartoons?" No, of course not, I've been laughing at this one for three minutes
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Richard Beach @mrseaside.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Pleased with myself today! www.maptap.gg August 6 100🎯 96🔥 100🎯 100🎯 95🏅 Final score: 981
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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Not an attack on Mark here to say that I simply do not believe that someone who uses his mea culpa to pivot to attacking the left via Marx’s “on the Jewish question” is speaking remotely in good faith.
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Richard Beach @mrseaside.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Mrs B gets the same whenever I take a gratuitous opportunity to use the word 'girth'.
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Richard Beach @mrseaside.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Certainly puts this song in a different context
Single Cover of Tight Fit's 1982 "song" Fantasy Island
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Richard Beach @mrseaside.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
I can't help wondering why our Historic British Way Of Life is OK to ditch if it keeps the fossil fuel lobby happy, but must be defended to the hilt when the (imagined) threat to it comes from non-white people?
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Richard Beach @mrseaside.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Now do Roger Waters and Hamas, Steve. Or is that inconvenient for you?
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Richard Beach @mrseaside.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Time for us to send in the Hessians again and see if we can bring the tax rebels to heel this time.
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