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Euan Healey

@euanhealey.bsky.social

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PhD historian and archaeologist of labour, subsistence, fisheries and environment (in the Gàidhealtachd and beyond) at the University of Glasgow. Antifascist & trade unionist. Baggies, Jags, Warriors, Canucks. Pilgrim through this barren land. he/him.

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Euan Healey @euanhealey.bsky.social · May 19

Big day to be a fisheries historian (fishtorian). Big day.

When it comes to oily fish, the export market has always been the focus of British commerical fishing. Prior to the First World War, British fishing was dominated by the North Sea herring fishing; herring outweighed every other fish (1/?)

Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · May 19

The odd thing about UK fisheries is that we export a lot of mackerel and import a lot of cod and haddock. When did this start? Once upon a time did we eat a lot of mackerel?

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Euan Healey @euanhealey.bsky.social · 2d

Oh to be a french train conductor and to get to say Bon Voyage to people unironically

Euan Healey @euanhealey.bsky.social · 2d

Oh to travel this speed on more than a tiny fraction of the UK rail network

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Euan Healey @euanhealey.bsky.social · 2d

Lovely hour or so in Lille (my first time), before back on board a TGV heading south

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Euan Healey @euanhealey.bsky.social · 2d

Though less of a thumping majority gives Labour even less of a breathing space than they've been allowed by the electorate. Plus a... better Tory leader might actually land blows on Labour.

Though no guarantee KB/RJ doesn't just beat A.N. Other slightly less rightwing Tory with the membership.

Euan Healey @euanhealey.bsky.social · 2d

As a counter-factual: what changes for Labour if they don't commit to no tax rises pledge? Do they still win?

Maybe a smaller majority, but does a stronger remnant of Tories actually broadly benefit Labour - narrative about Tory collapse less bad, perhaps a diff leader better at fighting Reform

Euan Healey @euanhealey.bsky.social · 2d

When I say political parties need to be focused on creating jobs, these are the jobs I mean specifically

waltydunlop @waltydunlop.bsky.social · 3d

Job occupations, from an 1881 census. Every one of these sounds like something a sorely provoked Captain Haddock would should at someone in times of heavy stress.

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Euan Healey @euanhealey.bsky.social · 2d

Yep - in Geography, Biology and Cooking + Nutrition!

Euan Healey @euanhealey.bsky.social · 2d

Early start in Glasgow today to head to France by train for a conference later this week.

Eurostar already cancelled before I'd left Scotland - though very easily rebooked for a later departure

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Euan Healey @euanhealey.bsky.social · 2d

Exciting shellfish news

First change in Fal oyster fishing size in 100 years

In July the government increased the legal size native oysters removed from the River Fal must be.

www.bbc.com

Euan Healey @euanhealey.bsky.social · 5d

Do feel like we need to change our culture to not tolerate moaning like this as serious. You cannot both live in an urban environment and complain about hearing noise from other people.

Noise you did not create ≠ noise pollution. Hope this helps.

Harrogate residents complain about padel court noise pollution

Residents say their Harrogate neighbourhood was

www.bbc.co.uk

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 6d

If anyone needs this for YouTube

PONTIFF ISSUES MISSIVE!
AUGUSTINIAN SAYS THIS ONE
TRICK CURES LACK OF MEDIA NUANCE!

And it’s a click bait video thumbnail

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Cas Ⓜ️udde @casmudde.bsky.social · 6d

A professor is threatened online, has his flight canceled mysteriously, and this is all his university has to say:

“Rutgers University is committed to providing a secure environment (...) where all members of our community can share their opinions without fear of intimidation or harassment,

US anti-fascism expert blocked from flying to Spain at airport

Rutgers University professor who published book on antifa was informed at boarding gate that his trip was cancelled

www.theguardian.com

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Euan Healey @euanhealey.bsky.social · 7d

Balking at AUCSO referring to their staff as "officers"

Euan Healey @euanhealey.bsky.social · 7d

Glad to hear my employer, who has repeatedly told us there is no money, including to pay me to have meetings with other staff to prep sessions we teach in parallel, has got money to spend on instructing staff to play at being police and track students' social media

UK universities offered to monitor students’ social media for arms firms, emails show

Loughborough, Heriot-Watt and Glasgow corresponded with companies concerned about campus protests

www.theguardian.com

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Euan Healey @euanhealey.bsky.social · 7d

Read this. His life story is genuinely remarkable - born in Uttar Pradesh, an Indian nationalist who served in the war, visited Hiroshima after the bomb under MacArthur, moved to Britain, worked for the BBC.

Incredible story of a man whose life is a story of how modern Britain was made.

VJ Day: The WW2 veteran who moved Queen Camilla to tears

Yavar Abbas reflects on his experiences on the front line - and the wars engulfing the world today.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Euan Healey @euanhealey.bsky.social · 7d

The way men like Jenrick insult the memory of the sacrifice proudly integrated young men made in the struggle against fascism is just disgusting

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Euan Healey @euanhealey.bsky.social · 7d

I can't stop thinking about the VJ day memorial, when 104-year old Yavar Abbas, a veteran of the 14th Army's Burma Campaign interrupted proceedings, visibly emotional, to salute "his brave King".

And men like Jenrick believe his face tells you everything you need to know about his "integration".

Gabriel Milland @gabrielmilland.bsky.social · 7d

One more concession to Englishness was giving up his youngest son to serve and die fighting for this country. But that's another story.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 7d

"We used to ring up our GP and get an appointment on the same day," says Kemi Badenoch. She does not add: we're all looking for the guy who did this!

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Euan Healey @euanhealey.bsky.social · 7d

Equalization payments in (eg) the German constitution are one of the most pragmatic and impressive pieces of fundamental law ever written. Their shadow is obvious in the way the EU has responded to accession by post-soviet nations.

Caring about other nations/regions welfare is good, actually.

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 7d

Badenoch: "While Britain was redefining what a woman is, China built five nuclear reactors."

A perfect summary of conservative idiocy. Glorifying authoritarian post-communism for its efficiency while vilifying democracy for seeking nuance and respect.

It is the Right who hate their own countries.

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Euan Healey @euanhealey.bsky.social · 7d

Surprising to see Kemi so vocally supportive of the benefits of EU spending (Poland is the largest net beneficiary of EU funds), showing the merits of the bloc's eastward solidarity investment strategy.

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 7d

"15 years ago, Polish workers came here to find opportunity. Now Poland is growing twice as fast as we are," says Kemi Badenoch.

Any ideas what may have happened in the interim?

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Euan Healey @euanhealey.bsky.social · 7d

Local calvinists positively fizzing with discontent

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 8d

All these people really want is to pay no taxes and be treated with floor scraping deference. Everything else is just bullshit in pursuit of that goal.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 8d

Party donor Nick Candy says "I cherish the values we grew up with here in the West. But today you are more likely to find the values we grew up with in Dubai and Abu Dhabi.’

Via Sam Leith in the Spectator
www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-...

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Euan Healey @euanhealey.bsky.social · 8d

Feels like a shoe-in for the Lib Dems or a normal party of the centre-right, and yet. Perhaps because the Lib Dems have always struggled in urban WM, if he retains ambitions of elected office.

Euan Healey @euanhealey.bsky.social · 8d

This does rather beg the question, given the direction of the tide in the party, of why Andy Street remains a Conservative party member

BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 8d

“I’ll put it bluntly, Robert is wrong… it’s actually a very integrated place... Not the definition of a slum.”

Andy Street, Mayor of the West Midlands 2017-24, responds to Robert Jenrick's comments on Handsworth.

#Newsnight

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