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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 · 54m

How amusing. People may eventually figure out that racism is not a sufficient reason to elect representatives.

Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 4h

Anyone with any sense & enough momey goes to Switzerland.

Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 4h

We get PBS in UK,on "Freeview". We are hoping Trump doesn't shut it down.

Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 4h

When I was in Germany or Switzerland, I always had the most fizzy version. Thanks for reminding me.

Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 5h

Exactly 💯

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Ooooohhh

Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 14h

Arkansas

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Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 20h

Not a low score but still quite pleased with this one
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Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 20h

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Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 20h

Thats not a bad idea in fact.

Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 20h

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Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 20h

Sounds great. I love the Fiesole campus as well.

Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 21h

Clever!

Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 21h

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Herman van de Werfhorst 🟥 @hermwerf.bsky.social · 22h

With the Inequality Cluster, Alex Ludwig (EUI Economics), Francis Vella (Georgetown U), and I organize a one-day conference on Social Mobility. www.eui.eu/events?id=58.... Looking forward to welcoming speakers @pengzell.bsky.social @xisong.bsky.social, Jo Blanden, Kjell Salvanes and Mikael Lindahl>

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Organised jointly by EUI scholars Alexander Ludwig and Herman van de Werfhorst, together with Professor Francis Vella (Georgetown University), this event offers a unique forum for dialogue across disc...

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Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 22h

Racism is expensive

Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 22h

Good for you 😕

Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 23h

But it is amusing, as the Tory party declines, to watch BBC trying to decide whether to put their full weight behind Reform.

Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 23h

I suddenly realized I now have a special costume for having injections.

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Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 1d

At least she is a conservative

Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 1d

Jeez

Resolution Foundation @resfoundation.bsky.social · 1d

Council Tax arrears in England increased during the pandemic.

Arrears continued to rise during the cost of living crisis - with £445 million added to England’s stock of arrears between 2023-24 and 2024-25. This is much greater than the rise seen after the financial crisis.

Chart showing real-terms stock of Council Tax arrears at fiscal year-end: England
Total Council Tax arrears in England in 2024-25 stood at £6.7 billion in today’s prices, a 48 per cent real-terms increase since 2019-20

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Resolution Foundation @resfoundation.bsky.social · 1d

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Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 1d

Good heavens. I had no idea.

Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 1d

The underlying issue is the disappearance of stable, reasonably paid jobs for lower-educated men (according to Angus Deaton anyway).

Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 1d

I agree. Grumpy old lady maybe👩‍🦳

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Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 1d

Bit better today
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Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 1d

I learned a hard lesson. If you don't push yourself, no one else is going to, and you may regret where you end up (in terms of income etc).

Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 1d

How interesting you should say that David. I have recently (well, last 5 years or so) had conversations with colleagues who ask: what happened to the research of the 1980s & 1990s? Not just the physical papers but the ideas?

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Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 2d

A very great loss to social epi

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