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Richard Beach

@mrseaside.bsky.social

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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Twlldun@twlldun.bsky.social · 20h ago

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.

Mark Wallace@wallaceme.bsky.social · 20h ago

ConservativeHome has always been a critical friend of the Conservative Party, and a place for all of its wings and views to debate and discuss. So in addition to the above editorial, Bonehill-Paine is also in today’s Comment section making his own case conservativehome.com/2026/08/05/j...

Richard Beach@mrseaside.bsky.social · 7d ago

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 · last wk.

Time for us to send in the Hessians again and see if we can bring the tax rebels to heel this time.

Disappointed Optimist@disappoptimism.bsky.social · last wk.

So when Trump inevitably refuses to give up the presidency what’s the plan? Like, there won’t be some Supreme Court and police thing. The Supreme Court will shrug. The army won’t March on the White House. So what’s the lever that gets pulled? I feel like this is a consideration that’s needed

Jonn Elledge@jonnelledge.bsky.social · 4w ago

"Unfortunately for Farage it is just not possible to make out that it’s your opponent who’s the mainstream politician when you’re wearing a suit and he’s wearing a bin."

And so, welcome, to what we may soon have to describe as the first Clacton by-election of 2026. In the turquoise corner, a man so affronted by intrusive questions about his finances that he’s set himself up for weeks on end of literally nothing else. In the red corner… well, no one, actually: every other corner to which one might attach a colour seems to be strangely deserted. Other candidates that are running include a couple of oddballs so far to the right they make Farage look like LibDem; the more embarrassing Corbyn brother; ITV4’s Laurence Fox; and a man dressed as a fox who may, in fact, have the better acting career these days. The most serious challenger to Farage, and my god I enjoyed writing that description, is that perennial novelty candidate, ruler of the Recyclons, Count Binface of Sigma IX – or, if you prefer the name currently being used in print across the Channel, Comte Tête-de-Poubelle. So desperate are Farage’s outriders to find a way of turning “not losing to a bin” into a popular mandate they they’re desperately trying to spread the shocking news that Binface is not, in fact, an intergalactic space warrior at all: he’s actually an Oxford-educated comic who also does documentaries about Athenian democracy for BBC Radio 4. In its way this point is quite correct – the people most likely to find employment mocking the British establishment do tend to come from inside it; that’s also how I got here. But unfortunately for Farage it is just not possible to make out that it’s your opponent who’s the mainstream politician when you’re wearing a suit and he’s wearing a bin.