Hilary Fawcett (@hboomer.bsky.social)

@hboomer.bsky.social Oct 13, 2026, 7:45 PM

Love Tom Petty. Died to young

@hboomer.bsky.social Oct 13, 2026, 6:58 PM

@hboomer.bsky.social Oct 12, 2026, 11:32 AM

It’s a shame , Linda. I did used to enjoy it. It will be interesting to see the viewing figures at the end of the season

@hboomer.bsky.social Oct 12, 2026, 11:28 AM

www.theguardian.com/politics/liv... Guardian should not give Farage the headline. Of course he would say that. Why would anyone believe anything he says..

@robertsaunders.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 1:54 PMReposted by @hboomer.bsky.social

Public executions were not abolished out of tenderness towards the criminal. They were abolished because of the effect on the people watching, and the dangers of making human death a source of commercial entertainment. Here's Charles Dickens in The Times, after witnessing an execution in 1849.

"I have seen, habitually, some of the worst sources of general contamination and corruption in this country, and I think there are not many phases of London life that could surprise me. I am solemnly convinced that nothing that ingenuity could devise to be done in this city, in the same compass of time, could work such ruin as one public execution, and I stand astounded and appalled by the wickedness it exhibits. I do not believe that any community can prosper where such a scene of horror and demoralization as was enacted this morning outside Horsemonger Lane Gaol is presented at the very doors of good citizens, and is passed by, unknown or forgotten. And when in our prayers and thanksgivings for the season we are humbly expressing before God our desire to remove the moral evils of the land, I would ask your readers to consider whether it is not a time to think of this one, and to root it out.

I am, Sir, your faithful Servant.
Charles Dickens".

@hboomer.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 6:25 PM

I’ve always loved this painting by Dora Carrington. I don’t really know why I like it so much, but it just pleases me

@hboomer.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 4:28 PM

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

@hboomer.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 3:06 PM

#SAFC. I don’t care how we do in Europe and I certainly don’t care how we do in what was the League Cup. We have to focus on the PL

@hboomer.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 1:38 PM

So sorry to see that Pope Leo has health problems. The world needs him. He is a voice for decency amidst the dreadfulness

@hboomer.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 7:29 PM

Portrait of the painter John Minton, by Lucien Freud

@duille.com Oct 10, 2026, 7:20 PMReposted by @hboomer.bsky.social

"Town Hall Yard". Edward Bawden. 1956. Image: Sotheby's.

@hboomer.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 6:24 PM

Absolutely right

@hboomer.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 6:19 PM

Mine too. Last night’s was particularly good !

@hboomer.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 6:15 PM

Me too. Great pictures

@hboomer.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 6:10 PM

It’s more than that for me. I don’t know many of the celebs and the whole set up seems to have changed somehow. There is a different tone, and as for Strictly Takes Two, it’s now just a shout fest

@hboomer.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 5:27 PM

Exactly what I was thinking about Xhaka. Bound to have been affected by that stuff. Even with everyone fit this season would have really stretched us but without Brobbey and Ballard ….

@hboomer.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 5:21 PM

Yes. With key injuries the thinness of our squad is exposed

@hboomer.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 5:07 PM

I have finally given up on Strictly. It is charmless now. Shame, it used to be a fixture of Autumn Saturday nights shared with friends online. The BBC have shot themselves in the foot in trying to appeal to a younger audience

@hboomer.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 4:54 PM

#safc - oh dear. Going to be a long season I fear

@hboomer.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 7:09 PM

US unveils sanctions on ICC in move court condemns as 'assault on rule of law' Had enough of this shit….