Euan Healey

@euanhealey.bsky.social

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Historian of subsistence labour and the rural environment (+ fish). Unlicensed poster on higher ed, elections, devolution, religion, sport and transport. Advocate for second cities. Antifascist. Christian. Baggie by birth, Jag by the grace of God. He/him.

Fish form the fourth class of vertebrate animals, and, as a general rule, they live in the water ; although in Ceylon and India there are found species that live in the earth, or, at any rate, that are able to exist in mud, not to speak of some, that are said to occupy the trees of those countries !
Pitella wearing an LCL shirt, it is light blue with stylised versions of the LCL crest, a Lioness, across the design.
Showing alternating football and rugby games from 4.30pm until midnight
film dyed black and white on paper, now pixels moments so fierce they stole a time machine and held fast in place for days like this beauty and joy ensnared by abundance compressed up and poured out again as I see that stolen second alive anew and it's strange, it's still, and yet I feel the warmth of the sun the wind the roar of the sea tumble out again and catch my eye in saline mist this is it, I say, this is how I know we win the war
Fake yougov polling for bsky voting intention with the lib dem bar big
Stop the War Coalition accuses Starmer of exaggerating threat from Russia This is what the Stop the War Coalition has said about the Dip. It is a statement from Chris Nineham, the coalition’s vice-chair. In a telling and desperate bid to leave ‘a legacy’, Keir Starmer has insisted on announcing the defence investment plan before leaving office and before the Nato summit. Never mind the cost-of-living crisis or the collapsing services he leaves behind, Starmer wants to be remembered as the man who ramped up spending on weapons to record levels. He claims he doesn’t want war, but that the best way to avoid it is to be prepared for it. This is a transparent lie. His government has done little more than enable the US and Israel’s illegal wars and has enthusiastically backed the war in Ukraine, doing everything possible to prolong the carnage in the effort to, as he put it today, “turn the screws” on the Russian economy. It is clear that security, defence and the fantasy and implausible threat from Russia, which is constantly talked up by ministers, generals and arms companies, are now the main ways that the ruling classes are justifying attacks on social programmes, on welfare and working-class living standards in general in favour of still more missiles.
Drawn artwork advertising T Thomason and Co metalworkers, specifically showing off metalwork for windows and church paraphenalia
Freedom of speech painting, man standing up
Languages -6k; Philosohpy -9k; Arts -40k
The University Court has therefore approved a budget aimed at maintaining a small underlying financial surplus and ensuring the long‑term sustainability of the institution. Achieving this will require significant further savings across all areas of expenditure and each of our budgetary units. Inevitably, this will have implications for the size of our workforce, affecting both academic and professional services roles.
Map of areas of Britain covered by old rail companies
Map of medieval/ancient kingdoms of Britain
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Burnham explains how 'Makerfield test' will ensure places like his constituency don't get treated as 'afterthought' In his speech Burnham set out his view again of how he would apply what he calls “the Makerfield test”. He said: We will take the energy of this campaign and we will bring it forward into changing British politics for the better, and to make this part of the world – if you like Makerfield test – at the heart of British politics. When policies come forward, if they don’t work for people here, for the places of this constituency, if they don’t lift people up, then they shouldn’t happen at all. We’ve not had a country run on that basis before. Places like this have often been an afterthought. Westminster has looked past the communities of this constituency. Well no more. That changes today.
Black and white photo of a young David Hockney. He is wearing thick, round glasses and a hat is slightly off his head. He has bleached blonde hair and is sitting in front of a painting with paintbrushes in coffee cans.
In an interview on Sky News, Sarah Jones was asked if she agreed with Farage that white people were not treated fairly by the police. She replied: I don’t think the evidence at the moment would suggest that, if you look at the facts and figures about policing. I will always listen to the police in terms of what they’re saying and the home secretary said yesterday [that] we need to talk to the police. We need to talk to the Sikh community. We need to talk to knife crime campaigners. We need to understand what it is we need to do differently and better and we will do that.
TNT Sports, £30.99/month
Virgin Atlantic flight from Birmingham to Palm Beach
Guardian headline: "Burnham to back shabana mahmood's immigration changes"
Scotland GE204 -> Holyrood 2026 voter flows showing 60% of 2024 Conservative voters stayed with the party
Google search result for wes 4 leader showing a website.
Scottish Parliament Chamber
East End Park football stadium in the sunshine
Chart with strong negative correlation between share of spend in a city centre by visitors and city centre high street vacancy rate
A man in a bird costume at an election count. Holding a sign that says end the guga hunt
Louise Scott @LouiseScottITV 9m Scottish Labour Leader Anas Sarwar arriving in Glasgow where sources say he is looking likely to lose his seat. He told journalists “my ambition and my intention was to change the Government here in Scotland…that’s clearly an ambition we have not met.” @ITVNewsPolitics
Three reform councillors elected in a ward of Havering council
Alex Cole Hamilton in a peach suit
A map of scotland with spots marking Stronsay, Lossiemouth, Fraserburgh, macDuff, Findochty
Mandelson was first person to suggest himself for US ambassador's job, McSweeney claims John Whittingdale (Con) is asking the questions now. Q: Who first suggested Mandelson should be ambassador? McSweeney replies: I think the first person who put Mandelson’s name forward was Mandelson.
From Guardian liveblog McSweeney says Starmer would not have appointed Mandelson if all his other advisers had been opposed Q: Starmer appointed Mandelson even though he did not like him much. But you wanted him. McSweeney replies: At the time in Downing Street, there was conversations about who, who could be the best candidate. And names that were considered and most people were making pros and cons arguments. I have to say, I know that a lot of people now say they told the prime minister they were against it at the time. Everything I know about how the prime minister works is he will consult widely. He will take a lot of views on. And if everybody else was opposed to this appointment but me, he would not have made an appointment such as that.
Still from Arrested Development: "And as it is such, so also as such is it unto you"
Net favourability of politicians showing Keir Starmer at -48; Rayner at -33; Streeting -25 and others
Joshua 8: AI destroyed
Rail map of glasgow showing glasgow cross
Central government’s objection is that Metro Mayors and local transport authorities do not always have the capacity or technical expertise to take on that role. And, to a point, Whitehall is right. In too many places there simply is not a deep bench of people who have spent years developing tram proposals, navigating approvals and taking schemes from concept to construction. Leeds is the clearest example. The largest city in Western Europe without a mass transit system recently had its project delayed until the end of the next decade, in part because Whitehall doesn’t think they have the institutional machinery needed to move quickly from ambition to delivery.
The Empty Tomb by Richard Bavin. 2013. Watercolour on paper.
Woodland Trust conservationist named Ed Pyne
Headline: Contractor that cut back ancient oak in London park identified. Picture of the felled tree.
Highlighted within a paragraph of text: Producers in the Lea Valley, the so-called cucumber capital of Britain