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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 · 1h
Astonishing, really. Though I've noticed the same thing in my own intellectual backyard for some time.

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Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 1h
*Country-level* multi lingualism? You have got to be kidding

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Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 20h
Fail! Though the word I chose was better
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Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 21h
Right wing? Jeez. After the last year of relentless attacks on the new Govt. Including continuing to refer to it as "Labour" as if it were still the opposition.

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 21h
If the BBC licence fee could somehow be disconnected between news and non-news output, I suspect the number of people willing to pay to watch its news output would be tiny

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Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 22h
This is what happened during Thatcher's attacks on the heavy industries. Ironic, as heavier jobs were abolished, more people became economically inactive.

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Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 22h
Very good points in your post. "Custom & Practice" in the steelworks used to provide less arduous jobs for injured steelworkers. All abolished in the 1980s .

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Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 23h
Lucky you. It is such a beautiful place

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Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 1d
I hardly can bear the BBC news & current events programs any more.

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Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 1d
In the years before smartphone music players, didn't some people play their radios out loud on public transport? Admittedly, not very often. I take loud music to be a form of attention seeking.

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Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 1d
Very strikimg. Worse than I thought.
davidheniguk.bsky.social David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 1d
This looks rather meaningful.

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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 1d
This looks rather meaningful.

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Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 1d
As we seem to be experiencing the Plagues of Egypt plus several wars, the media are obsessed with .... the BBC

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Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 1d
This is why some characteristics appear to be "genetic"

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Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 1d
That looks like a Mosquito?

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Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 1d
Another holiday for @rebeccalacey.bsky.social

metro.co.uk/2025/11/07/m...
Map reveals high-speed European train network that shaves 9 hours off journeys
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Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 1d
That's too bad. I took up strong coffee in my old age in order to hasten a heart attack.

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Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 1d
Phew
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Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 1d
Hope I don't do this. Many years ago, I was resentful of authors I knew had the tenure I longed for & never got. Now I get annoyed with the same mistakes arising over & over.

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Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 1d
So anyone with only a state pension is in very deep poverty?

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Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 1d
In my pre-arthritis walking days, this would have been gold mine.

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Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 1d
I always found this confusing.

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Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 1d
Not sure I umderstand. I dont want refugees or veterans to have to feel indebted to anyone else. They have the right to a home of their own.

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Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 1d
I will believe in the sincerity of those who wear a red poppy when there is not a single veteran living on the streets.

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Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 2d
Thanks Nicky, one of my heroines

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Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 2d
One of my heroines

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Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 2d
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 2d
The 8 Kent offenders sent to jail for more than 100 years.

These are the most common types of faces of sex offenders.

White British.

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Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 3d
Starmer had a great example to follow in Blair.

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Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 3d
So the insult "bird brain" is totally inaccurate😜
rezashadmehr.bsky.social Reza Shadmehr @rezashadmehr.bsky.social · 3d
Birds are both intelligent and incredibly agile, yet they are quite small. How do they achieve this with their little brains?
They have twice as many neurons per brain mass than mammals, including primates.
www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...