@zetkin.bsky.social 💙💚🦉🦡Sociologist . Obsessed with corruption. Health inequality & its political & economic causes. 🇨🇭, 🦡🚞🚋 http://mel3569.blogspot
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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
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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%
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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…
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"......where workers do the basic requirements of a job but refuse to do anything more might be hitting the economy"
Good
Why should ordinary workers do extra work for nothing at a time when bankers are raking in millions for doing next to F-all
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It doesn't seem very advisable to allow medical treatment that affects sexual development to be given to children below the age of majority. Better that people take these very drastic decisions as adults no longer needing parental consent.
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It's shocking to see 'low-wage care workers' portrayed as a drain on the welfare state. They're doing essential jobs and the only reason they claim benefits is that the fat cat private equity bosses that own care homes don't pay them enough to live on.
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From memory at the time, in Europe Apps had been developed for circa £6 Billion and they worked. There must be an investigation into this, something that is the biggest financial scandal of the Tories during covid. And guess who was a close friend of Johnson?
Very good question. Didnt the Inquiry deal with it at all?
🔴DIDO HARDING: Test and Trace
'Did we ever get to the bottom of this❓
The whole thing seems to have disappeared without a trace, @didoharding.'
- @LeftRig57257476
@Conservatives @UKLabour
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Gas, not renewables, is the biggest driver of UK electricity bills. Pricier gas explains nearly 90% of the rise in household bills since 2020.
Gas plants still set the power price most of the time. Cutting gas is the surest way to cut bills.
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“Living standards are falling for us.” Yet UK banks just posted £29bn in half-year profits. Lloyds’ profits jumped 99% to £2.3bn as mortgage rates hit 6%, while Shell doubled its profits to £8bn. This isn’t just an economic crisis; it’s a wealth transfer.
"Painful" years ahead, think tanks warn, as living standards set to fall
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📈Just getting by costs 3.9% more than it did a year ago
💡Fuel and light are 8.9% more expensive
⛽Petrol and diesel prices have risen more than 30%
Overall prices have risen a huge 42% since March 2021
And that means that, without significant pay rises, wages just can’t provide.
The best way to raise pay? Get active in your union!
#CostOfLiving #UnionPower #UnionStrong
But the logic of technology that becomes more & more powerful is that income no longer needs to depend on work. This is not a bad thing. We just cant cope with it.
Britain’s welfare ratchet ft.trib.al/S95jKSU
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“I regard most of the problems in this country as being laid at the door of Jeremy Hunt.”
Ex-BoE deputy Howard Davies says Hunt’s “unfundable” NI cuts trapped Labour, and have boxed in every budget since.
Fair or unfair? #PoliticsUnleashed