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Hilary Fawcett

@hboomer.bsky.social

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Art, design, Italy, football (SAFC), politics, music and coffee. Looking out across the mighty North Sea Artwork at hilaryfawcett.artweb.com

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Hilary Fawcett @hboomer.bsky.social · Mar 19

My son took this at Pompeii. I love the composition, the frame, the mysterious quality of the image.
To me it speaks of time, passing moments

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Hilary Fawcett @hboomer.bsky.social · 8h

Ratcliffe says Amorim needs 3 years to turn things round…
The whole world is mad

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Toby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social · 17h

if you’ve ever watched the apprentice, that’s the world without arts or humanities degrees

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 1d

The uber-rich have never been much into integration. The essence of the Public Schools is separation from the oiks.

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Rafael Behr @rafaelbehr.bsky.social · 23h

Badenoch’s only achievement is to have shrunk the Tories to a low-wattage Faragist think tank and warehouse storing future parliamentary candidates for Reform www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Badenoch’s ‘thoughtful Conservatism’ turns out to be just the slower road to Faragism | Rafael Behr

The Tory leader’s intellectual meanderings have shrunk her party into little more than a holding pen for future Reform party candidates, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

www.theguardian.com

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 22h

One significant - & dangerous - thing to watch for is professional commentators objecting to words rather than examining the evidence. It's pearl-clutching & cowardly, obviously, but also a deliberate attempt to avoid confronting exactly what they themselves are facilitating and often cheering on.

BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 1d

“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?”

“Because that’s what they are”

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.

#Newsnight

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Ramin Nasibov @nasibov.me · 23h

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Hilary Fawcett @hboomer.bsky.social · 1d

Exactly so

Hilary Fawcett @hboomer.bsky.social · 1d

Badenoch wants to close “rip off’ degrees such as English. One minute they are wrapping themselves in the Union Jack, the next minute they are wanting to stop the study of our language and literature. Ignorant philistines

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steve-n.bsky.social @steve-n.bsky.social · 2d

Of course they want to sack him - they always do. Those that scream loudest about “not being able to say anything in my own country” (Stewart Lee had this bang-on) always want to cancel opponents.
Neville has 85 England caps.
Lineker has 80
Interesting enemies of England & Englishness

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Graphic Garbage @graphic-garbage.bsky.social · Aug 22

Perfume bottles by Rene Lalique, 1912-1928

Au coeur des calices perfume bottle, 1912

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Graphic Garbage @graphic-garbage.bsky.social · Aug 24

Plates from "Sonia Delaunay: Ses Peintures, Ses Objets, Ses Tissus Simultanes, Ses Modes." 1923.

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Graphic Garbage @graphic-garbage.bsky.social · Aug 15

Magazine covers for the surrealist art & literature magazine "Minotaure" by Pablo Picasso, André Derain, Joan Miró and René Magritte, 1933-37.

Pablo Picasso, Minotaure no. 1, 1933. Mixed media collage with drawing of a bull.

André Derain, Minotaure no. 3-4, 1933. Four tarot cards with bull and magazine name drawn over it in black ink.

Joan Miró, Minotaure no. 7, 1935. Red, white, and blue surrealist picture of bull with magazine title at the top.

René Magritte, Minotaure no. 10, 1937. Surrealist figure draped in black with cow skeleton head. Images of burning tuba, nested female bodies, and disembodied feet in background. Magazine name at the top.

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wesmontgomery.bsky.social @wesmontgomery.bsky.social · 1d

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Hilary Fawcett @hboomer.bsky.social · 1d

Indeed-a brilliant actor

Hilary Fawcett @hboomer.bsky.social · 2d

I’ll keep an eye out. He must be well into his 80s

Hilary Fawcett @hboomer.bsky.social · 2d

Excellent. Pleased he is still performing

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Hilary Fawcett @hboomer.bsky.social · 2d

I saw them perform this 60 years ago at the Locarno Ballroom, Sunderland

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Irene Fraser @boozybluesy.bsky.social · 5d

youtu.be/R4x1en3FcRQ?...

RY COODER

'Across The Borderline'

Ry Cooder / Across The Borderline

YouTube video by Johan Hopman

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Irene Fraser @boozybluesy.bsky.social · 2d

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NANCI GRIFFITH
&
TOWNES VAN ZANDT

'Tecumseh Valley'

Nanci Griffith & Townes Van Zandt "Tecumseh Valley," American Music Shop-Mark O'Connor

YouTube video by Mark O'Connor

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Hilary Fawcett @hboomer.bsky.social · 2d

I got great gossip. It was a joy.

Hilary Fawcett @hboomer.bsky.social · 2d

Sorry, I thought you were referring to woodvine’s hometown as
Newcastle. Hence my reply being rather left field !

Hilary Fawcett @hboomer.bsky.social · 2d

Yes. I was a single parent and I and other impecunious Jesmond friends augmented our incomes by taking RSC lodgers. We met some very interesting people and got gossip and complementary tickets. My son even got fencing lessons.
The actors didn’t exactly get luxury digs though

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Hilary Fawcett @hboomer.bsky.social · 2d

I bet it was !

Hilary Fawcett @hboomer.bsky.social · 2d

Indeed

Hilary Fawcett @hboomer.bsky.social · 2d

I’d forgotten Edge of Darkness. It was great, and he was wonderful in it