Stefan Siebert
@stefansiebert.bsky.social
Professor at University of Glasgow in beautiful Scotland. Views obviously my own and not medical advice or representative of my employers. Hate injustice and worried about the future of healthcare (and humanity)! ☮️
What was the last movie or TV show you watched in 2025?
“Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl”
(Chosen as my wife worked until 10pm so it was the only film we had recorded over Christmas that we could finish before the Bells!)
“Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl”
(Chosen as my wife worked until 10pm so it was the only film we had recorded over Christmas that we could finish before the Bells!)
January 1, 2026 at 12:16 PM
What was the last movie or TV show you watched in 2025?
“Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl”
(Chosen as my wife worked until 10pm so it was the only film we had recorded over Christmas that we could finish before the Bells!)
“Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl”
(Chosen as my wife worked until 10pm so it was the only film we had recorded over Christmas that we could finish before the Bells!)
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“Strange! It is always religion, always morality, always patriotism, with which these mauvais sujet justify their attacks. They attack us not from a private interest, not from literary envy, not from native slavishness, but to save God, good morals, and the Fatherland.” Heinrich Heine.
December 28, 2024 at 10:47 PM
“Strange! It is always religion, always morality, always patriotism, with which these mauvais sujet justify their attacks. They attack us not from a private interest, not from literary envy, not from native slavishness, but to save God, good morals, and the Fatherland.” Heinrich Heine.
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“Holding anyone without conviction for over a year without trial, under highly restrictive conditions, raises serious ethical and legal concerns. The prisoners all have, as would be expected in a fair justice system, a right to bail and a fair trial.” Totally agree!
The rights and health of UK hunger strikers must be protected to prevent avoidable tragedy - Rita Issa in the BMJ doi.org/10.1136/bmj....
The rights and health of UK hunger strikers must be protected to prevent avoidable tragedy
The government must remove the punitive remand conditions for protesters, writes Rita Issa
Eight young people have recently been on hunger strike in UK prisons. This is the largest coordinated hunge...
doi.org
January 1, 2026 at 8:21 AM
“Holding anyone without conviction for over a year without trial, under highly restrictive conditions, raises serious ethical and legal concerns. The prisoners all have, as would be expected in a fair justice system, a right to bail and a fair trial.” Totally agree!
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As dozens of Welsh figures are recognised in the New Year Honours list, many online are again praising Michael Sheen, who memorably gave his honour back five years ago
Five Years on Michael Sheen's OBE decision is back in the spotlight
Amelia Jones As dozens of Welsh figures are recognised in the New Year Honours list, many online are again praising Michael Sheen, who memorably gave his honour back five years ago. On 30 December 202...
nation.cymru
December 31, 2025 at 10:22 AM
As dozens of Welsh figures are recognised in the New Year Honours list, many online are again praising Michael Sheen, who memorably gave his honour back five years ago
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If you were personally not racist but you ran a party that contained this level of racism, you'd resign on the basis you had somehow ended up organising racists into a serious campaigning force, which had never been your intention.
On the other hand, if you *are* a racist...
On the other hand, if you *are* a racist...
"More than a third (37%) of Reform UK voters said they would be prouder of Britain if there were fewer people from minority ethnic backgrounds in a decade’s time, and 10% [compared to 3% overall] said it was important to have white skin to be a good British citizen."
Number of people who say Britons must be born in UK is rising, study shows
Exclusive: Research finds ‘worrying’ surge in support for hard-right narratives on national identity
www.theguardian.com
December 30, 2025 at 6:26 PM
If you were personally not racist but you ran a party that contained this level of racism, you'd resign on the basis you had somehow ended up organising racists into a serious campaigning force, which had never been your intention.
On the other hand, if you *are* a racist...
On the other hand, if you *are* a racist...
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This is entirely on Keir Starmer and UKG.
This deal could have been done in early 2025.
It didn't happen because Labour:
-Kept demanding special treatment
-Failed to communicate positively about 🇪🇺 to public
-Hated letting 🇪🇺 youth come to the UK
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www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
This deal could have been done in early 2025.
It didn't happen because Labour:
-Kept demanding special treatment
-Failed to communicate positively about 🇪🇺 to public
-Hated letting 🇪🇺 youth come to the UK
1
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Delay to post-Brexit deal costs UK £100m a week, analysis shows
Labour government hits out at critics, denouncing it as a ‘shame’ that they are not supporting its progress in forging closer ties with the EU
www.independent.co.uk
December 31, 2025 at 9:10 AM
This is entirely on Keir Starmer and UKG.
This deal could have been done in early 2025.
It didn't happen because Labour:
-Kept demanding special treatment
-Failed to communicate positively about 🇪🇺 to public
-Hated letting 🇪🇺 youth come to the UK
1
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
This deal could have been done in early 2025.
It didn't happen because Labour:
-Kept demanding special treatment
-Failed to communicate positively about 🇪🇺 to public
-Hated letting 🇪🇺 youth come to the UK
1
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
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Real heroes
who hate hypocrisy
don't accept
British Establishment honours
meme via The National Newspaper
who hate hypocrisy
don't accept
British Establishment honours
meme via The National Newspaper
January 1, 2026 at 9:11 AM
Real heroes
who hate hypocrisy
don't accept
British Establishment honours
meme via The National Newspaper
who hate hypocrisy
don't accept
British Establishment honours
meme via The National Newspaper
Unfortunately (and amazingly😮) UK government, the Labour Party, most MPs and many UK public organisations and universities still frequent that bar/pub! Get out!!
December 31, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Unfortunately (and amazingly😮) UK government, the Labour Party, most MPs and many UK public organisations and universities still frequent that bar/pub! Get out!!
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Sitting a stewing in frustration isn't nearly as cathartic as just designing a poster. Let's see how often I remember that in 2026.
December 31, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Sitting a stewing in frustration isn't nearly as cathartic as just designing a poster. Let's see how often I remember that in 2026.
Respect! Good to see there are still people who stand for principles & other people who are more vulnerable, rather than personal awards from the establishment who are responsible for, & capable of solving, the problems you are fighting! UK honours have always been the ultimate "award washing" club!
'The head of one of Scotland’s foremost disability rights charities says she turned down an MBE in the recent new year honours because the UK government was “fuelling hatred, blame and scapegoating of people with disabilities”.'
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
Campaigner turned down MBE over ‘scapegoating’ of people with disabilities
Exclusive: In letter declining proposed award, Tressa Burke, CEO of Glasgow Disability Alliance, accused government of ‘fuelling hatred’
www.theguardian.com
December 31, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Respect! Good to see there are still people who stand for principles & other people who are more vulnerable, rather than personal awards from the establishment who are responsible for, & capable of solving, the problems you are fighting! UK honours have always been the ultimate "award washing" club!
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“…Dan & Hilary’s experience shows how essential is sound leadership to the mobilisation of society & the transformation & renewal of energy & economic systems at community, national & international levels.”
Things are falling apart - @annpettifor.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/annpetti...
Things are falling apart - @annpettifor.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/annpetti...
Things are falling apart: where to look for leadership?
…. in the most unlikely places.
open.substack.com
December 31, 2025 at 3:14 PM
“…Dan & Hilary’s experience shows how essential is sound leadership to the mobilisation of society & the transformation & renewal of energy & economic systems at community, national & international levels.”
Things are falling apart - @annpettifor.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/annpetti...
Things are falling apart - @annpettifor.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/annpetti...
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Coire an Lochain, Loch an Eilein and Lagangarbh Cottage, Glen Coe. Some personal faves of 2025, didn't get out as much as I had hoped this year but looking forward to doing more in '26. Wishing you all the very best for the ne'er, let's hope it's a good one, Slàinte Mhath! 🙏
December 31, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Coire an Lochain, Loch an Eilein and Lagangarbh Cottage, Glen Coe. Some personal faves of 2025, didn't get out as much as I had hoped this year but looking forward to doing more in '26. Wishing you all the very best for the ne'er, let's hope it's a good one, Slàinte Mhath! 🙏
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🧵This may be the most powerful video ever made—if just enough people saw it, problems would begin to dissolve. It distills our message into one short story. We’ll keep re‑sharing it again and again, because the message is too important to fade. We hope you'll join us. Repost this if you like, or …🔻
Socialism Never Worked
YouTube video by Matthew Cooke
youtu.be
December 8, 2025 at 1:50 PM
🧵This may be the most powerful video ever made—if just enough people saw it, problems would begin to dissolve. It distills our message into one short story. We’ll keep re‑sharing it again and again, because the message is too important to fade. We hope you'll join us. Repost this if you like, or …🔻
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Every week, Nature publishes yet another breathless puff piece about some AI startup, based only unpublished claims from the company and interviewing only those who work there.
How can the leading scientific journal publish piece after piece that would make Kevin Roose blush?
I think it's that...
How can the leading scientific journal publish piece after piece that would make Kevin Roose blush?
I think it's that...
December 30, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Every week, Nature publishes yet another breathless puff piece about some AI startup, based only unpublished claims from the company and interviewing only those who work there.
How can the leading scientific journal publish piece after piece that would make Kevin Roose blush?
I think it's that...
How can the leading scientific journal publish piece after piece that would make Kevin Roose blush?
I think it's that...
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"the biographer of Bobby Sands Denis O’Hearn, wrote an open letter to the UK Government "even in the case of the Irish hunger strikes of 1980 and 1981, where the prisoners were considered at war with the British state, the government opened a dialogue with the prisoners and their representatives".
archive.ph
December 28, 2025 at 9:27 PM
"the biographer of Bobby Sands Denis O’Hearn, wrote an open letter to the UK Government "even in the case of the Irish hunger strikes of 1980 and 1981, where the prisoners were considered at war with the British state, the government opened a dialogue with the prisoners and their representatives".
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Minister for Higher Education Ben Macpherson confirms to Holyrood's #Education Committee that Scottish Government will not impose the international student levy (UK Government policy) on Scottish universities. He goes on to welcome how "internationalism creates innovation."
It is welcome good news.
It is welcome good news.
December 17, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Minister for Higher Education Ben Macpherson confirms to Holyrood's #Education Committee that Scottish Government will not impose the international student levy (UK Government policy) on Scottish universities. He goes on to welcome how "internationalism creates innovation."
It is welcome good news.
It is welcome good news.
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People: x policy would benefit society and save lives.
Government: the rich won’t like it and they fund our political campaigns, so no.
People: *protests and marches*
Government: ffs, FINE! *implements very watered down version of x policy*
Government: the rich won’t like it and they fund our political campaigns, so no.
People: *protests and marches*
Government: ffs, FINE! *implements very watered down version of x policy*
December 29, 2025 at 12:10 PM
People: x policy would benefit society and save lives.
Government: the rich won’t like it and they fund our political campaigns, so no.
People: *protests and marches*
Government: ffs, FINE! *implements very watered down version of x policy*
Government: the rich won’t like it and they fund our political campaigns, so no.
People: *protests and marches*
Government: ffs, FINE! *implements very watered down version of x policy*
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Who saw that coming?
December 29, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Who saw that coming?
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I want to say something clever about AI, weigh in on the various 'open letters' that are doing the rounds, but I'm just so <tired> of the whole subject.
It's class war. Technocratic oligarchs, forcing it into every level of our media and social consumption, while simultaneously gobbling resources..
It's class war. Technocratic oligarchs, forcing it into every level of our media and social consumption, while simultaneously gobbling resources..
December 29, 2025 at 8:08 AM
I want to say something clever about AI, weigh in on the various 'open letters' that are doing the rounds, but I'm just so <tired> of the whole subject.
It's class war. Technocratic oligarchs, forcing it into every level of our media and social consumption, while simultaneously gobbling resources..
It's class war. Technocratic oligarchs, forcing it into every level of our media and social consumption, while simultaneously gobbling resources..
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Trump-Musk defunded USAID. As of Nov 2025, this caused as many as 600,000 deaths – 342, 000 of them children (Boston Univ). If USAID or some type of equivalence is not reestablished, by 2030 the death-toll will be 14 million – 4.5 million of them children under 5 yrs old (Lancet).
This is Genocide.
This is Genocide.
December 28, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Trump-Musk defunded USAID. As of Nov 2025, this caused as many as 600,000 deaths – 342, 000 of them children (Boston Univ). If USAID or some type of equivalence is not reestablished, by 2030 the death-toll will be 14 million – 4.5 million of them children under 5 yrs old (Lancet).
This is Genocide.
This is Genocide.
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No one is reading long form.
The emergence of the post-literacy world is accompanied by the rise of Medieval Peasant Brain, a mental soup of superstition and magical thinking... We see this most clearly in the mainstreaming of xenophobia, conspiracies, quack medicines, and naked fascism.
The emergence of the post-literacy world is accompanied by the rise of Medieval Peasant Brain, a mental soup of superstition and magical thinking... We see this most clearly in the mainstreaming of xenophobia, conspiracies, quack medicines, and naked fascism.
December 28, 2025 at 8:08 PM
No one is reading long form.
The emergence of the post-literacy world is accompanied by the rise of Medieval Peasant Brain, a mental soup of superstition and magical thinking... We see this most clearly in the mainstreaming of xenophobia, conspiracies, quack medicines, and naked fascism.
The emergence of the post-literacy world is accompanied by the rise of Medieval Peasant Brain, a mental soup of superstition and magical thinking... We see this most clearly in the mainstreaming of xenophobia, conspiracies, quack medicines, and naked fascism.
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If you have a long term condition or have had cancer and recovered then you probably have little chance of getting health insurance or you will need a mortgage to pay for it
That's a lot of people
Farage will be happy to see you unsupported
He likes a divided society
That's a lot of people
Farage will be happy to see you unsupported
He likes a divided society
Nigel Farage: NHS might have to be replaced by private health insurance
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Farage: NHS might have to be replaced by private health insurance
Farage: 'There is no question that healthcare provision is going to have to be very much greater in 10 years than it is today, with an ageing population, and we’re going to have to find ways to do it'
www.independent.co.uk
December 28, 2025 at 2:26 PM
If you have a long term condition or have had cancer and recovered then you probably have little chance of getting health insurance or you will need a mortgage to pay for it
That's a lot of people
Farage will be happy to see you unsupported
He likes a divided society
That's a lot of people
Farage will be happy to see you unsupported
He likes a divided society
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“2026 can be a better year – but only if we demand that those in the political and media mainstream reject these websites [ie - X], this language and these ideas.”
Very good, as ever, from @iandunt.bsky.social and a New Year’s resolution we can all get behind.
liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/409...
Very good, as ever, from @iandunt.bsky.social and a New Year’s resolution we can all get behind.
liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/409...
December 26, 2025 at 9:30 AM
“2026 can be a better year – but only if we demand that those in the political and media mainstream reject these websites [ie - X], this language and these ideas.”
Very good, as ever, from @iandunt.bsky.social and a New Year’s resolution we can all get behind.
liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/409...
Very good, as ever, from @iandunt.bsky.social and a New Year’s resolution we can all get behind.
liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/409...
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Scotland already has shorter waiting lists, fewer 12-hour waits in A&E, better patient-to-GP ratios, and shorter waits to treat cancer, writes Dr Dan Goyal ✍️
Read here: www.thenational.scot/politi...
Read here: www.thenational.scot/politi...
December 27, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Scotland already has shorter waiting lists, fewer 12-hour waits in A&E, better patient-to-GP ratios, and shorter waits to treat cancer, writes Dr Dan Goyal ✍️
Read here: www.thenational.scot/politi...
Read here: www.thenational.scot/politi...