Euan Healey
@euanhealey.bsky.social
PhD historian and archaeologist of labour, subsistence, fisheries and environment.
Antifascist & trade unionist. Baggies, Jags, Warriors, Canucks. Pilgrim through this barren land. he/him.
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
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?
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/?)
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/?)
Labour preventing Andy Burnham from standing in Gorton and Denton to prevent a leadership challenge, only to lose the by election because the PM has already been ousted by events is... *chefs kiss*
I admit that I might be a bit tunnel visiony atm, but every day I wake up, read the news and think 'why did Labour think a short campaign in the Gorton and Denton by election would help them again'
February 4, 2026 at 1:15 PM
Labour preventing Andy Burnham from standing in Gorton and Denton to prevent a leadership challenge, only to lose the by election because the PM has already been ousted by events is... *chefs kiss*
Not guilty of one of the principle justifications for designation as a terror group? Big yikes for the government, who could have foreseen this?
Palestine Action protesters not guilty of defence firm burglary
The group are cleared of aggravated burglary over the alleged raid at an Elbit Systems warehouse.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 4, 2026 at 12:55 PM
Not guilty of one of the principle justifications for designation as a terror group? Big yikes for the government, who could have foreseen this?
Being forced (against my will) to watch every televised event in the Winter Olympics (against my will) to ensure I get value for money from my 3.99/month subscription (which I bought against my will) to Discovery+.
February 4, 2026 at 12:15 PM
Being forced (against my will) to watch every televised event in the Winter Olympics (against my will) to ensure I get value for money from my 3.99/month subscription (which I bought against my will) to Discovery+.
It'll be quite something when the Epstein file release, brought about by attempts to take down the US President, ends up taking down the British prime minister first
no hiding for the PM really, is there
February 4, 2026 at 10:31 AM
It'll be quite something when the Epstein file release, brought about by attempts to take down the US President, ends up taking down the British prime minister first
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Scotland's unjust transition is taking the form of a steady set of layoffs and closures in oil and gas and disappointments in renewables too. The pace of closure in oil and gas is being dictated by multinationals like Exxon and Petroineos, not by government.
February 3, 2026 at 3:11 PM
Scotland's unjust transition is taking the form of a steady set of layoffs and closures in oil and gas and disappointments in renewables too. The pace of closure in oil and gas is being dictated by multinationals like Exxon and Petroineos, not by government.
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Social media really has ruined Commons scrutiny in that nobody hunts in a pack anymore, it's just 'would the minister like to repeat his statement but for *my* Facebook clip' these days.
February 2, 2026 at 5:27 PM
Social media really has ruined Commons scrutiny in that nobody hunts in a pack anymore, it's just 'would the minister like to repeat his statement but for *my* Facebook clip' these days.
Have a very strong feeling that between the leaks themselves (and broader relationship with Epstein) and Mandelson's counter-response when he realises the game is up, this story has the potential to take a few others down with it
February 2, 2026 at 4:41 PM
Have a very strong feeling that between the leaks themselves (and broader relationship with Epstein) and Mandelson's counter-response when he realises the game is up, this story has the potential to take a few others down with it
I've got One Neat Trick which will modernise disciplinary procedures in the House of Lords
BREAKING: Keir Starmer has urged House of Lords to urgently modernise disciplinary procedures so that Peter Mandelson can be stripped of his peerage and removed from upper chamber.
February 2, 2026 at 12:57 PM
I've got One Neat Trick which will modernise disciplinary procedures in the House of Lords
Six Nations and the Winter Olympics starting in the same week? This is the opposite of seasonal depression.
February 2, 2026 at 11:53 AM
Six Nations and the Winter Olympics starting in the same week? This is the opposite of seasonal depression.
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since Anas Sarwar wants us all to talk about his policy on trans issues today, all I’m thinking is, it’s *such* an exercise in cowardice that pretends it’s principle.
Scottish Labour voted overwhelmingly *for* gender recognition reform *in this parliamentary term* *under Anas Sarwar’s leadership*
Scottish Labour voted overwhelmingly *for* gender recognition reform *in this parliamentary term* *under Anas Sarwar’s leadership*
February 2, 2026 at 10:22 AM
since Anas Sarwar wants us all to talk about his policy on trans issues today, all I’m thinking is, it’s *such* an exercise in cowardice that pretends it’s principle.
Scottish Labour voted overwhelmingly *for* gender recognition reform *in this parliamentary term* *under Anas Sarwar’s leadership*
Scottish Labour voted overwhelmingly *for* gender recognition reform *in this parliamentary term* *under Anas Sarwar’s leadership*
reject modernity; embrace tradition (specifically a concept of virgin rolling stock styled on the 1930s mercury railroad)
How did we possibly manage five years ago? Or forty years ago? BETTER is how!
February 2, 2026 at 10:48 AM
reject modernity; embrace tradition (specifically a concept of virgin rolling stock styled on the 1930s mercury railroad)
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May I be the first? RAMSAY OUT.
January 31, 2026 at 4:33 PM
May I be the first? RAMSAY OUT.
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A touch of a Wilfried Nancy about this
January 20, 2026 at 9:28 PM
A touch of a Wilfried Nancy about this
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Humane and sensible step move by Spain in facilitating irregular migrants and asylum seekers to move to work with decent pay, social security and tax payments. Predictably the right is grumbling - unlike the UK, the govt isn’t allowing this to set their policies www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
‘It’s like a gift from God’: undocumented foreign workers welcome Spanish amnesty
Half a million migrants will be ‘regularised’ under plans to boost economic growth that have angered rightwing parties
www.theguardian.com
January 31, 2026 at 9:42 AM
Humane and sensible step move by Spain in facilitating irregular migrants and asylum seekers to move to work with decent pay, social security and tax payments. Predictably the right is grumbling - unlike the UK, the govt isn’t allowing this to set their policies www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
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there are two ways of seeing the world.
the one which governs our current media and political landscape and which is demonstrably wrong, always talks in terms of “the taxpayer”
but in the literal sense money is created by the state. the idea that taxation steals from “your” money is backwards
the one which governs our current media and political landscape and which is demonstrably wrong, always talks in terms of “the taxpayer”
but in the literal sense money is created by the state. the idea that taxation steals from “your” money is backwards
my dad didn’t go to university and he was extremely happy to pay taxes for his four children to do so; and, indeed, for the doctors who treated him at Addenbrookes to have gone to university as well.
Rachel Reeves: "It is not right that people who don't go to university bear the cost for others to." I don't use local leisure centres and I don't drive, so will I be made exempt for taxation that pays for all that stuff? Or is it only education we'll be going after
January 30, 2026 at 11:18 AM
there are two ways of seeing the world.
the one which governs our current media and political landscape and which is demonstrably wrong, always talks in terms of “the taxpayer”
but in the literal sense money is created by the state. the idea that taxation steals from “your” money is backwards
the one which governs our current media and political landscape and which is demonstrably wrong, always talks in terms of “the taxpayer”
but in the literal sense money is created by the state. the idea that taxation steals from “your” money is backwards
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🚨🐟 CFP - COLONIAL HINTER-SEAS: A Conference on Subaquatic Resources and Waterside Lives from the Early Modern to the Contemporary, 10-11 August 2026, virtual, Zoom & 19-21 August 2026, in-person, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland.
Details: www.colonialfisheries.com/colonial-hin... 🐟🚨
Details: www.colonialfisheries.com/colonial-hin... 🐟🚨
Colonial Hinter-Seas Conference 2026 | Colonial Fisheries
www.colonialfisheries.com
January 30, 2026 at 8:27 AM
🚨🐟 CFP - COLONIAL HINTER-SEAS: A Conference on Subaquatic Resources and Waterside Lives from the Early Modern to the Contemporary, 10-11 August 2026, virtual, Zoom & 19-21 August 2026, in-person, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland.
Details: www.colonialfisheries.com/colonial-hin... 🐟🚨
Details: www.colonialfisheries.com/colonial-hin... 🐟🚨
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What gets me about Reeves' here is why bother to be a member of a social democratic / left of centre political party if you're going to make this argument? Just pack it in and go be a libertarian or something??
Rachel Reeves: "It is not right that people who don't go to university bear the cost for others to." I don't use local leisure centres and I don't drive, so will I be made exempt for taxation that pays for all that stuff? Or is it only education we'll be going after
January 29, 2026 at 10:26 PM
What gets me about Reeves' here is why bother to be a member of a social democratic / left of centre political party if you're going to make this argument? Just pack it in and go be a libertarian or something??
Interest accrued on my undergraduate student loan, at present, totals 33% of the original amount. I graduated in 2022.
I do think this is probably also why young people are now more likely to insist they're overtaxed.
As an experiment my boss and I worked out our Net Pay/Gross Pay and my student loan means I'm astonishingly close % wise despite him earning around twice what I do.
It's just not a sensible system.
As an experiment my boss and I worked out our Net Pay/Gross Pay and my student loan means I'm astonishingly close % wise despite him earning around twice what I do.
It's just not a sensible system.
Essentially Plan B is just an income tax hike, applied in a really haphazard way, at the wrong point in most people's lifecycle.
January 29, 2026 at 2:04 PM
Interest accrued on my undergraduate student loan, at present, totals 33% of the original amount. I graduated in 2022.
This article tells me that Reform want to declare a "National High Street Emergency" and I'm so tired. Our politicians are obsessed with vacuous hand waving as an alternative to actually having ideas. It's like me continuing to drink pints while declaring a "Throwing Up Down Myself Emergency."
Farage’s attack on Turkish barber shops is dog-whistle racism, minister says
Miatta Fahnbulleh accuses Reform leader of ‘politics of grievance’ while having no plan to fix UK high streets
www.theguardian.com
January 29, 2026 at 11:24 AM
This article tells me that Reform want to declare a "National High Street Emergency" and I'm so tired. Our politicians are obsessed with vacuous hand waving as an alternative to actually having ideas. It's like me continuing to drink pints while declaring a "Throwing Up Down Myself Emergency."
Does anyone have a sense of how many MPs in the parliamentary Tory party are sympathetic to the proposals made by these guys? Yes they can wheel out these four (bluntly, post-career-peak podcasters) - but is there a sense that there is any *possible* path to actually redirecting the party?
Former Tory heavyweights launch new centre-right movement
Prosper UK aims to pull Conservative Party back to middle ground and counter rise of Reform UK
www.ft.com
January 27, 2026 at 12:42 PM
Does anyone have a sense of how many MPs in the parliamentary Tory party are sympathetic to the proposals made by these guys? Yes they can wheel out these four (bluntly, post-career-peak podcasters) - but is there a sense that there is any *possible* path to actually redirecting the party?
Total uncanny valley reading this. Feels like a relic of some forgotten, lost civilisation.
Or, crazy thought, the electoral reform the PM pledged in 2020
January 27, 2026 at 12:25 PM
Total uncanny valley reading this. Feels like a relic of some forgotten, lost civilisation.
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Excited for the BBC piece explaining the disputed accounts between the administration and the BBC One footage of the shooting of Clare Balding.
BREAKING: ICE agents will have a security role during the upcoming Winter Olympics, U.S. embassy sources confirm.
ICE agents will have a security role at Milan-Cortina Olympics, US sources say
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents will have a security role during the upcoming Milan Cortina Winter Games, according to sources at the U.S. embassy in Rome.
bit.ly
January 27, 2026 at 11:06 AM
Excited for the BBC piece explaining the disputed accounts between the administration and the BBC One footage of the shooting of Clare Balding.
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Anyone who thinks this won't happen at the 2026 World Cup games in the U.S. is delusional.
ICE to conduct immigration enforcement at Super Bowl LX at Levi's Stadium, official says
A government official says ICE will conduct immigration enforcement at Super Bowl LX in Santa Clara. This comes just days after Bad Bunny was announced as the halftime performer.
abc7news.com
January 26, 2026 at 9:35 PM
Anyone who thinks this won't happen at the 2026 World Cup games in the U.S. is delusional.
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obviously correct!
January 23, 2026 at 4:13 PM
obviously correct!
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"'...[A]nybody who wants to separate — the premier included — they can gladly go live in any other country that they wish around the world, but they will not be taking any treaty or inherent lands away with them,' said Assembly of First Nations National Chief Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak."
Indigenous chiefs accuse Premier Danielle Smith of stoking Alberta separatism talk | Globalnews.ca
Premier Danielle Smith has said it would be up to Albertans, not her government, to put the separation question on a ballot.
globalnews.ca
January 23, 2026 at 3:54 PM
"'...[A]nybody who wants to separate — the premier included — they can gladly go live in any other country that they wish around the world, but they will not be taking any treaty or inherent lands away with them,' said Assembly of First Nations National Chief Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak."