@zetkin.bsky.social 💙💚🦉🦡Sociologist . Obsessed with corruption. Health inequality & its political & economic causes. 🇨🇭, 🦡🚞🚋 http://mel3569.blogspot
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If women were naturally faster runners than men, there would never, ever have been a debate or a word about it. It simply wouldn't have been a thing.
Like when they wrote the GRA, they put in a clause to stop women identifying as men to gain a hereditary peerage or title.
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Suprised to see Germany ranking lower than Italy on this
Hoppp Suisse
Not much about the role of low wages in this admittedly pretty shocking set of statistics.
Data says the unsaid about British welfare politics ft.trib.al/XygRVPN
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#Veterans are hit by cuts to disability benefits, and live in poverty
All journalists and MPs don't tell you the facts
Disabled veterans left in poverty
Every £1 they might get from the forces, is £1 cut from their support
#BBClaurak
youtu.be/6sAoSRBYse0?si=hSiJ… via @YouTube
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🚌 Bus and tram workers are facing an alarming rise in abuse, threats and violence while simply carrying out their jobs.
@GOVUK's latest proposals may be well-intentioned, but they simply do not go far enough.
Our bus and tram workers deserve more than words and promises. They deserve real, meaningful protection, stronger action and the right to go to work without fear of abuse or violence.
✒️ actionnetwork.org/forms/bus-…
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UNITE WIN | David Wilson Homes, East Midlands
This win demonstrates that workers can secure improvements to their pay even where their union isn’t yet formally recognised by their employer.
@unitetheunion will always fight for our members and we urge construction workers to join the union and tell their colleagues to join too.
unitetheunion.org/news-event…
Please support this important campaign: megaphone.org.uk/petitions/s… via @megaphoneuk
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This was NHS England
Scotland hasn't voted tory since 1955 & Scotgov retained the bursaries
Likewise Scotgov honoured the agreed pay award for Police officers which the Tories reneged on in England
And they wonder why Scotland has the best health service and lowest crime rate
I saw one terrifying account from young people without jobs who couldnt get to work because buses would not drive through a certain area of their town because it was too dangerous.
In Middlesbrough, I met young people who can't find jobs because there are so few. They can't even easily get to Newcastle for work.
How does the government plan to help? That's a question Alan Milburn must answer.
My report - @theipaper
inews.co.uk/news/inside-wors…
Why does this make me think of the Titanic?
Singapore Airlines unveils biggest double bed in the sky in premium fightback ft.trib.al/vlSuz3H
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I wrote short columns to accompany some of my first/last author papers in Nature Human Behaviour and Nature Genetics: communities.springernature.c…
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People who have undergone cross-sex surgery are over 19 times more likely to die by suicide than the general population
statsforgender.org/people-wh…
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Who wants to become a debt slave by taking on a leasehold flat?
The government is keen to lure desperate young people in with its “Your First Home” scheme, while developers dangle £40,000 towards private school fees.
How to break democracy.
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Labour and the Conservatives are a uniparty on housing.
Far too close to developer donor cartels, and far too distant from the median voter, who sees cruelty and corruption in the policies being pushed through.
As Ed Miliband once put it: strong when standing up to the weak, but always weak when standing up to the strong.
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If Britain just used its natural renewable resources properly we could be one of the most energy-secure countries in Europe. Instead, we have left ourselves entirely exposed to US/Israeli aggression in the Middle East…. because green energy is woke, or something.
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I genuinely dont know what this labour government have done for those of us in the middle with mortgages..we are literally being RINSED.
Taxed every which way.
Food expensive
Bills through the roof
Fuel astronimical
Income tax
Council tax
How much money do these people think we have? We're already stretched to the limit with literally everything!
Where the FCK Is the relief?
BREAKING: The Bank of England has raised the base interest rate from 3.75% to 4%
news.sky.com/story/money-per…
So true. They clearly do this on purpose, to steal your money.
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'Affordable' emptyhomes that aren't.. affordable, don't sell and arent occupied.
More of #TheWrongHousing we've been building in London for years, backed by public money, policy and 'esteemed' institutions like L&G
Empty for years, unaffordable for ever? standard.co.uk/news/london/a…
But they are likely to have shoddy building standards, unlimited ground rents and service charges. So un -mortgageable.
'Affordable' emptyhomes that aren't.. affordable, don't sell and arent occupied.
More of #TheWrongHousing we've been building in London for years, backed by public money, policy and 'esteemed' institutions like L&G
Empty for years, unaffordable for ever? standard.co.uk/news/london/a…