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[@CptHastings1916](/creator/twitter/CptHastings1916)
"Aesthetically warships did peak in the Nelson era no doubt about it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CptHastings1916/status/1980615299658355093) [@CptHastings1916](/creator/x/CptHastings1916) 2025-10-21T12:41Z 17.9K followers, 24.8K engagements


"Talking to someone in Northern Ireland about the north-western city on the River Foyle with a famous wall but you don't know whether they're unionist or nationalist"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CptHastings1916/status/1980954149266362684) [@CptHastings1916](/creator/x/CptHastings1916) 2025-10-22T11:07Z 17.9K followers, 1579 engagements


"Life Of Riley by the Lightning Seeds just came on unbelievably powerful Proustian flashback to watching Goal Of The Month on Match Of The Day in 1998. Teddy Sheringham up against Dwight Yorke and Andy Cole"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CptHastings1916/status/1972398462210904369) [@CptHastings1916](/creator/x/CptHastings1916) 2025-09-28T20:30Z 17.9K followers, 3394 engagements


"I cannot accept that anyone who knows anything about literature honestly believes this is a good poem. This kind of politically congenial but objectively bad drivel gets foisted on the public by either fanatics or - worse - cowards who know much better but daren't object"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CptHastings1916/status/1977024477545500933) [@CptHastings1916](/creator/x/CptHastings1916) 2025-10-11T14:52Z 17.9K followers, 16.9K engagements


"BBC reporting a sharp increase in men engaging in public sexually inappropriate behaviour over the last decade"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CptHastings1916/status/1978419370364715318) [@CptHastings1916](/creator/x/CptHastings1916) 2025-10-15T11:15Z 17.9K followers, 74.8K engagements


"These two books came in the post together yesterday. Real duality of man moment"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CptHastings1916/status/1978711671548858419) [@CptHastings1916](/creator/x/CptHastings1916) 2025-10-16T06:36Z 17.9K followers, 10.5K engagements


"@helpfulfella "Big Push tomorrow chaps. Zero hour is 5.30am.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/CptHastings1916/status/1978797120862695470) [@CptHastings1916](/creator/x/CptHastings1916) 2025-10-16T12:16Z 17.9K followers, XXX engagements


"Really staggering that we've reached the point where a sitting MP can openly boast about organising a campaign to keep Jews out of a city in England. I don't think this state of affairs can be permitted to continue in the long term"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CptHastings1916/status/1978896315921650023) [@CptHastings1916](/creator/x/CptHastings1916) 2025-10-16T18:50Z 17.9K followers, 60.3K engagements


"An interesting comment I once saw on a video like this is that the people in it have a relative lack of self-consciousness compared to now that there's less of a performative aspect ro whst they're doing than there would be XX years later"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CptHastings1916/status/1979528045946982709) [@CptHastings1916](/creator/x/CptHastings1916) 2025-10-18T12:40Z 17.9K followers, 7969 engagements


"Possibly even significant that the costumes are a bit more homemade and rough around the edges than modern cosplayers. Dressing up as SW characters was a fun thing you did with your pals you didn't have to care about what 10000 strangers online thought of your Boba Fett outfit"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CptHastings1916/status/1979530300125306917) [@CptHastings1916](/creator/x/CptHastings1916) 2025-10-18T12:49Z 17.9K followers, 1087 engagements


"@potwor_dom 😂Sadly not although I do have somewhere an original Boba Fett action figure from about 1982"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CptHastings1916/status/1979547006688489624) [@CptHastings1916](/creator/x/CptHastings1916) 2025-10-18T13:55Z 17.9K followers, XX engagements


""What is cultural coherence anyway" asked the XX year old academic and journalist who had spent his entire adult life being paid to understand concepts and discuss ideas after nearly two decades in full time education"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CptHastings1916/status/1980661755966820846) [@CptHastings1916](/creator/x/CptHastings1916) 2025-10-21T15:45Z 17.9K followers, 14.2K engagements


"He fires off all these gotchas all over the show but there's no underlying coherence. One week he'll be scolding The Left for being soft on sectarianism then it'll be The Right in the firing line for suggesting the burqa might be bad. What would *he* actually do No-one knows"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CptHastings1916/status/1980708998283133337) [@CptHastings1916](/creator/x/CptHastings1916) 2025-10-21T18:53Z 17.9K followers, 1037 engagements


"I absolutely refuse to believe that this is a genuine French detective in the Year of Our Lord 2025. He looks like he should be helping Poirot track down the false identity of the man claiming to be the heir of Sir Giles Buxomley in about 1932"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CptHastings1916/status/1981061338115035275) [@CptHastings1916](/creator/x/CptHastings1916) 2025-10-22T18:13Z 17.9K followers, 303.7K engagements


"My mildly hot take on the King praying with the Pope is that it is aesthetically pleasing and has a trace amount of eirenic symbolism but doesn't really matter at all or signify anything serious"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CptHastings1916/status/1981393529906876763) [@CptHastings1916](/creator/x/CptHastings1916) 2025-10-23T16:13Z 17.9K followers, XXX engagements


"I don't know enough about Romano-British or Iron Age history to make a judgement on BWP's thesis but it certainly sounded plausible"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CptHastings1916/status/1979445517362073861) [@CptHastings1916](/creator/x/CptHastings1916) 2025-10-18T07:12Z 17.9K followers, 2149 engagements


"Ian Hislop had already been editing Private Eye for five years when the Soviet Union ended. He also lives in a small village in West Kent that has the same demographics that the whole of Britain did in about 1959"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CptHastings1916/status/1979624823623192648) [@CptHastings1916](/creator/x/CptHastings1916) 2025-10-18T19:05Z 17.9K followers, 129.8K engagements


"Class is part of it of course. Hislop is from the old professional upper middle class who ran the Empire & the schools & occasionally produced intellectuals artists and writers. R Nige is from the upstart commercial bourgeoisie who make money in horror of horrors Trade"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CptHastings1916/status/1979637466039820479) [@CptHastings1916](/creator/x/CptHastings1916) 2025-10-18T19:55Z 17.9K followers, 16K engagements


"For quite a long time I've been trying to work out how to articulate my view that satire in the post-60s sense is in some sense an exhausted form. The whole Have I Got News For You - rigmarole monkey - Be Funny About The Government industrial complex"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CptHastings1916/status/1979644156474765483) [@CptHastings1916](/creator/x/CptHastings1916) 2025-10-18T20:22Z 17.9K followers, 24.3K engagements


"Incredible news from the Louvre. But must confess I'm of the generation of men who when they think of sophisticated museum heists immediately remember Catherine Zeta-Jones in Entrapment"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CptHastings1916/status/1980003924011601954) [@CptHastings1916](/creator/x/CptHastings1916) 2025-10-19T20:11Z 17.9K followers, 2998 engagements


"It's Bad On Purpose To Make You Clicking of course but "Being affectionate with your children is a modern aberration" is one of those bits of fake traddism like "No-one married for love until 1958" that collapses upon the slightest acquaintance with the past"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CptHastings1916/status/1980032190198280703) [@CptHastings1916](/creator/x/CptHastings1916) 2025-10-19T22:03Z 17.9K followers, 3938 engagements


"Observation possibly confounded by (a) going to the office more and (b) deciding to become a tiecel myself again so noticing others doing the same but it does seem like people might be starting to dress more smartly again"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CptHastings1916/status/1980165101190852939) [@CptHastings1916](/creator/x/CptHastings1916) 2025-10-20T06:52Z 17.9K followers, 2854 engagements