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Mel Bartley
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🇪🇺🦔🦡🌹🕊Emeritus prof of medical sociology UCL. Posting on social inequality in health , work & health, commercial & political determinants of health. Relationship between research & policy. Sometimes post about badgers, trams & trains. Oublagea .. more

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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Public Health 45%
Medicine 29%

What do the LLMs do? Do you give them the research question & let them do the literature review? More than than? (elderly ex academic here)

Making people dependent on cars has been one of the greatest victories of the global fossil fuel oligarchy.

Like making Hitler the chair of the Nelson Mandela Prize committee
I’m a past winner of the Orwell Prize & won partly because I exposed Vote Leave’s unlawful activities.

Michael Gove was its co-convener & refused to answer a single q. He’s now a judge of the prize & our world is truly one that Orwell would recognise

bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/m...
Michael Gove Made Orwell Prize Judge Despite Record of Attacking Journalists and Dodging Scrutiny
Critics say "Orwell would have enjoyed the irony" of the former Conservative minister's appointment
bylinetimes.com

Unbelievable
I’m a past winner of the Orwell Prize & won partly because I exposed Vote Leave’s unlawful activities.

Michael Gove was its co-convener & refused to answer a single q. He’s now a judge of the prize & our world is truly one that Orwell would recognise

bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/m...
Michael Gove Made Orwell Prize Judge Despite Record of Attacking Journalists and Dodging Scrutiny
Critics say "Orwell would have enjoyed the irony" of the former Conservative minister's appointment
bylinetimes.com
I’m a past winner of the Orwell Prize & won partly because I exposed Vote Leave’s unlawful activities.

Michael Gove was its co-convener & refused to answer a single q. He’s now a judge of the prize & our world is truly one that Orwell would recognise

bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/m...
Michael Gove Made Orwell Prize Judge Despite Record of Attacking Journalists and Dodging Scrutiny
Critics say "Orwell would have enjoyed the irony" of the former Conservative minister's appointment
bylinetimes.com

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Renewables routinely generate more than half of U.K electricity.

They also generate thousands of jobs, reduce our exposure to volatile gas prices, and allow us to stick two fingers up to fossil-fueled dictators.

Leadership is knowing the way, showing the way, AND going the way…🇬🇧♻️⚡️👷👩‍🔧

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Towards unified global action on ultra-processed foods: understanding commercial determinants, countering corporate power, and mobilising a public health response - The Lancet www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Towards unified global action on ultra-processed foods: understanding commercial determinants, countering corporate power, and mobilising a public health response
The rise of ultra-processed foods (UPFs) in human diets is harming global public health. However, policy responses are still emerging—much like tobacco control efforts decades ago—indicating the need ...
www.thelancet.com

What a worm that guy is. I cant bear to watch him at all

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Wow!

Not this one, not that one...
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Remarkable how iin this phase of "capitalism" all forms of expenditure on the development & protecton of human capital are being sharply cut. Not just education, health, social services but also policing & military,

My stepfather, son of Jewish refugees, used to say "It WAS the final solution" , pointing to the low numbers of Jewish people in Germany in the 1980s, & how many prominent Nazi businesses still prospered (Krupp, Thyssen, IG Farben). The Jewish people saw this coming.

I suppose because they benefit from it? And yet "business" surely cannot go on endlessly presiding over UK economic collapse?

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So true! It was so obvious my Dept , & even my research group, were gagging to get rid of me. When ( very nice) HoD asked if I wanted a retirement party, I told him they could have one if they wanted, but I would not be there.

UK is most expensive to build almost anything. This is because it is the most corrupt, with fewest safeguards against kickbacks & bribery. The taxpayer then subsidises all this.
Ludicrous- govt blames regulations/planning system for high cost of nuclear. EDF's Sizewell C EPR has been overbudget at Hinkley, Finland, France & China.
Fact is, no developer wants to take the risk so this govt forces UK bill/taxpayers to assume the risk!
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
UK ‘most expensive place’ to build nuclear power, review finds
Government panel’s final report calls for ‘radical reset’ of planning and environmental rules to get reactors built faster and cheaper
www.theguardian.com

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Ludicrous- govt blames regulations/planning system for high cost of nuclear. EDF's Sizewell C EPR has been overbudget at Hinkley, Finland, France & China.
Fact is, no developer wants to take the risk so this govt forces UK bill/taxpayers to assume the risk!
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
UK ‘most expensive place’ to build nuclear power, review finds
Government panel’s final report calls for ‘radical reset’ of planning and environmental rules to get reactors built faster and cheaper
www.theguardian.com
Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.
The Economic Impact of Brexit
Other
siepr.stanford.edu

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I’ve said it before and I’ll keep saying it. We’re in a 1945/1979 moment when the pre-existing economic model has broken down. The difference between now and then is that there is no alternative model waiting in the wings, even if there were politicians who could sell it.

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Many have benefitted from your wisdom, Jo

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It is very hard to develop a good new drug. It is very easy to convince people to buy some kind of stuff that promises "better health" but never has to prove its effectiveness.

Better today
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exactly💯