petemillwood.bsky.social
Historian of US-China relations. Author of Improbable Diplomats (CUP, 2022). Lecturer in East Asian History, Melbourne Uni; currently Kluge Fellow at LoC
👤 Joined on 02 October 2023
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@millwood.bsky.social@millwood.bsky.social → @pmill.bsky.social@pmill.bsky.social → @petemillwood.bsky.socialEd Miliband is not responsible for the phase out of coal. That would be Margaret Thatcher.
Show Post...you inserted yourself into this comment thread, though. Do you often attend meetings just to put your hand up and say you shouldn't have to be there?
Show Postmind boggling response from a Labour MP. She either: does not have a clue how important universities are to the local economy; knows but doesn’t care because of some sort of ‘anti-elitist’ brainworm; or knows but is too worried to admit it lest it upset Reform voters. none reflect very well on her!
Show PostI reckon, for example, more electricians work at the universities or for companies supplying them than work at the car plant.
Show PostThe BMW plant in Cowley employs about 3,500 people. The two universities in the city employ almost 20,000 people.
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