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Mel Bartley

@zetkin.bsky.social

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🇪🇺🦔🦡🌹🕊Emeritus prof of medical sociology UCL. Posting on social inequality in health , work & health, commercial & political determinants of health. Obsessed with social justice. Also sometimes post about badgers, trams & trains. Oublagea .. more

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Melanie Jane Bartley FBA is a medical sociologist and retired academic. She was Professor of Medical Sociology at University College London from 2001 to 2012.

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Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 32m

Who are the ICE people? How are they recruited?

Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 33m

Tried to be too clever
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Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 2h

It seems like there re men who, having gained access to endless wealth, have nothing else to yearn for than permission to rape children. And people like Epstein & Maxwell give them the access they want.

Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 3h

Gauff and Pegula are my favorite women's tennis players. What a match!

Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 3h

Ummmm.... noooo. But I do remember when 1st reading the book marvelling at the contrast between the importance given to Pasteur in UK and Frannce.

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Kev Woods @kev-woods.bsky.social · 3h

Don't forget the 15 years before Blair. Where the sell off of assets began.
The deregulation of banks leading to boom and bust.
The transfer of wealth from the people to the rich started in earnest.
Reform want the last jewel.. our NHS.
No interest in you, just your dumb acceptance.

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Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 4h

Had he read "Les Microbes: Guerre et Paix"?

Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 5h

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Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 5h

Do you have any insight into why so many Americans have accepted the anti-vax propaganda & no longer seem to believe that infectious disease is a danger to them?

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 6h

Every day is a good day to point out that 92% of Reform's donations were found to come from figures and groups linked to the fossil fuel industry. @desmog.com

Nigel Farage’s Reform Party Has Accepted £2.3 Million from Fossil Fuel Interests, Climate Deniers, and Polluters Since 2019 Election

Reform UK has received more than £2.3 million from oil and gas interests, highly polluting industries, and climate science deniers since December 2019, amounting to 92 percent of the party’s donations...

www.desmog.com

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Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 7h

Liberal democracy was a good idea. But only possible when there were stable well paid jobs for most people.

Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 7h

But presumably "the markets" would react quite differently? This would allow tax cuts to be funded (not that I agree at all)