Mel Bartley

When so many of your policies are decided by corruption there isnt a lot else you can talk about.

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Good news

No party is offering really popular policies like full employment, nationalisation of utilities, building council housing etc. The super rich wouldn't like that, or pay for it.So only racism has any traction.

Really good way to put it: "taxes on Americans who buy imports"👏👏

How quickly we forget that virtually every day of the last parliament a minister seemed to be in trouble for one thing or the other

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I can see why they do this though. At a time when no party offers credible policies that people want, its the racists who will have the motivation to come out and vote. This is what gave us Brexit (high turnout of people who dont normally vote)

Buts it's just silly anyway. If one person has so much ££ and vast numbers can't afford to buy his product, what is the point?

That is really speedy🚀🌪

Experts express concern for future of Health Survey for England Study is not being stood down but will no longer be run by NHS England, government says

Super important, if @nhsengland.bsky.social isn't interested as not "prioritising population health surveys in its long-term strategic work plan" (err, sickness to prevention anyone?) who? DHSC central budget? Alternatives will break the series, pretty dreadful www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

For one thing, only HSE can show us, on a representative sample, the trends in those illnesses must strongly linked to economic inactivity. Are these conditions getting more frequent or are they becoming more disabling? It goes back to 1992!

Ahhhh..... the EU timesheets! I was never lucky enough to get one of these grants, but I heard lots of stories.

Well done for not letting it affect you too much. Young scholars can be seen as a threat, but one only learns that later on.

Oh no!

Me too

This research warns that as parents with less education allow their children more screen time, #smartphones may be exacerbating social #inequality. Very worrying if true.

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Today is International Owl Awareness Day 🦉 (Burrowing Owl)

Jeez

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Some historians would call this "3rd periodism" but in a way I hope Reform does win. I would expose them

US households tend to be too optimistic about their future job prospects. This bias leads to worse financial decisions over the life course and contributes to wealth inequality.

Very interesting

Well, it was lucky in the sense that the publishers were very happy to have new editions rather than having to think up something totally new🤓. It now has a 3rd edition but that was only possible by finding a fantastic younger scholar to share the work with.

A rising % of women have higher or further education & full time jobs so,can live independently. Women are no longer forced to do the emotional work for these vulnerable men. In my family at least 2 of the men had severe postwar PTSD but were supported by wives who felt they had a duty to do so.

He must know that. Reforms next big platform will be repatriation of legal immigrants

YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic Imagine the shock when he finds out Brexit is a primary factor in sky rocketing small boat crossings

“This is Brexit Britain. We voted to take back control of our borders,” says Nigel Farage

Imagine his shock when he finds out Brexit is a primary factor in the sky rocketing number of small boat crossings

youtu.be/cKXFjbxSBBI?...

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As I remember it (just read Keegan's article) Brown transferred control of BoE away from govts so that they could no longer produce pre-election booms to get people to vote them back in. Something the Labour Party never got the hang of but Tories did every time.

I thought he was great.