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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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Nat Guest @unfortunatalie.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Ben Wishaw can act like he's a talking fucking bear from Peru doesn't mean he is one.
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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Britain's ultra-Far Left have always been, and will always be, only that which they are:
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Richard Beach @mrseaside.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Polanski's influence on the global Left becomes ever more obvious....
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Richard Beach @mrseaside.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
That bloody Zack Polanski strikes again...
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🎃👻🧙‍♀️ Vio the VVitch 🧙‍♀️👻🎃 @viothevvitch.myatproto.social · 08/10/2026
this is so fucking sad
Alvin Sng 0 @alvinsng My wife: Can you read our baby a book?
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Richard Beach @mrseaside.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"This is not just incompetence. This is *Conservative* incompetence"
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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It's also the most childish student union politics. Let's imagine (I doubt it, but let's imagine) that people voting for this have thought through the implications and are serious about this. What's the first move? Supply Hamas with weapons? Sabotage Israel's nukes? What's the plan here?
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Jonny Morris @jonnymorris.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Ah, back in the days when this sort of thing was an exaggerated satire.
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Richard Beach @mrseaside.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Excellent, excellent article that every progressive should read.
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Richard Beach @mrseaside.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Yes you have! "Zia Yusef, Badenoch’s unhinged Reform colleague"
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Richard Beach @mrseaside.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Reading your Striking 13 email now. Is it me, or have you switched from Braverman to Badenoch in a kind of subconscious co-identification?
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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
He missed out Christianity from that list.
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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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Richard Beach @mrseaside.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Istanbul needs a wee
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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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Richard Beach @mrseaside.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I think you’re misunderstanding. The Telegraph is probably saying that this is one of the good things about Reform.
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Richard Beach @mrseaside.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
"Your honour, we find the defendant incredibly guilty"
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Richard Beach @mrseaside.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Wishing you the happiest of happy new 5787s. Shana Tova Sara. Thanks for all the smiles!
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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
The BoD is as representative a body of British Jewry as you are going to get - the Deputies that make it up are from all Jewish denominations and community groups - Orthodox, Progressive, Masorti and so on. Many Jews (not me) see the BoD as a bunch of woke liberals!
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Richard Beach @mrseaside.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The BoD is as representative a body of British Jewry as you are going to get - the Deputies that make it up are from all Jewish denominations and community groups - Orthodox, Progressive, Masorti and so on. Many Jews (not me) see the BoD as a bunch of woke liberals!
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Richard Beach @mrseaside.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Shana Tova!
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Richard Beach @mrseaside.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
(Jewish New Year starts on Friday eve and is celebrated on Sat & Sun)
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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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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
Not bad yourself!
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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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