Stephen D'Evelyn

Tonight [Thursday 23 October] from 20:00, UCU General Secretary Jo Grady will be joining Iain Dale on LBC for a live phone-in to talk about the crisis in higher education. Tune in!

The Rosebank oilfield does not yet have final government approval. The consent granted in 2023 was ruled unlawful. It didn't account for the 250 tonnes of CO2 Rosebank would emit . More than 11 billion trees would have to be planted to offset it! Ask Ed Miliband to oppose!

2 Expanding oil fields is irresponsible environmentally. It is arguably immoral. It is also bad economics. If you are in the UK, please write to your MP to urge him or her to oppose the Rosebank oil fields and other oil nad gas expansion plans.

1 The UK Department for Energy Security and Net Zero’s most recent projections for Britain  state that solar output cost now averages £41 per megawatt hour from new projects. For new gas power stations, the equivalent lifetime costs will be close to £114 per MWh.

Forced to share pins, left open to fraud!

1 in 5 with mental health conditions risk financial abuse by sharing pins as banks don't offer carers cards, 3rd party notifications or controls. We want to change that. Full info www.moneysavingexpert.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Cape Verde seal historic debut place at World Cup 2026 and deny Cameroon Cape Verde will become the second smallest nation to ever play at a men’s World Cup after a 3-0 home win over Eswatini sealed their place

Congratulations to Cape Verde on qualifying for the World Cup! www.theguardian.com/football/202...

‘No one was found to return and give praise to God except this foreigner.’ (Luke 17: 18 from the Gospel reading from Mass today)

Tomorrow is the feast of St Carlo Acutis who died as a teenager of leukaemia. He loved coding and computer gaming, sticking up for disabled kids at school, making food for homeless people, and speaking up about the Church's social justice teachings, the Eucharist, and Mass.

Populist, radically party-political (or just party-as-personality)-driven attacks on the law, including investigations into corporate wrongdoing, are bad for the economy. Populists are not for the people.

Rachel Reeves clears planning blockage amid ‘good relationship’ with developer Exclusive: Chancellor says 20,000 homes were being held up due to ‘some snails that are a protected species or something’

The government must stop blaming nature for difficulties with housing supply. It's simply not true. Stop blaming newts, bats, and snails for problems largely created by Brexit. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Renewables overtake coal as world's biggest source of electricity Developing countries lead the historic clean energy charge but the US and EU rely more on fossil fuels than before, a think tank study shows.

Renewable energy has OVERTAKEN coal in global electricity production!! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Pope Leo XIV encourages rekindling awareness of our missionary vocation - Vatican News At the Mass for the Jubilee of the Missions and of Migrants, Pope Leo encourages us to rekindle awareness of our missionary vocation that springs from ...

'At the Mass for the Jubilee of the Missions and of Migrants, Pope Leo encourages us to... remember those in difficulty, and in particular “our migrant brothers and sisters” forced to leave their homelands.' www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...

Thank you for telling the truth and giving us a place where it's OK for us as listeners to do it too when most other media outlets, and some your colleagues at either end of teh day on LBC, don't. We have to break the cycle of F getting attention because he says divisive things that get clicks.

Right-wing media fluffs Farage for years, to the point where he now leads the polls, and then start whining about Starmer being 'obsessed' when he starts telling some long overdue home truths. It's actually hilarious.

Anyone who uses and loves Stoke Lodge Park in Stoke Bishop should not be intimidated by Cotham School or the fence the school is putting up and the rumours the school is spreading. Simply walking, jogging, meeting friends, including with well behaved dogs, is not a nuisance or disturbance.

1 Just realised Reform UK has got their RFK, Dr Aseem Molhotra: 'His views on diet and health have been criticized by the British Heart Foundation as "misleading and wrong, and his public questioning of the need to ever use statins has been condemned as a danger to public health.[10] (Wikipedia)

Even the direct descendants of immigrants can be xenophobes. We must all stand up for our marginalised fellow humans and other beings if we are all going to survive, let alone thrive.

Found this picture of my dad by our eldest (when 3 years old) on my dad's X feed from April 25, 2015:

Sarah Berkeley, <Some of the Things I've Seen> 2022 (WFU Press)

Elon Musk's DOGE claimed 40% of calls to Social Security were fraud. A new expert audit reveals the real figure is .0018%

Finally some judicial resistance to Trump's xenophobia!

FUN FACT: Since 2019, Nigel Farage's Reform UK has taken 92% of the party's donations from oil and gas interests. If you support short-term thinking resulting in the end of civilization, they're your people!

Hugely moved by the news of Pope Francis's death and grateful for him especially his showing the centrality of the marginalized and all Creation to the calling to follow Christ.

Climate crisis on track to destroy capitalism, warns top insurer Action urgently needed to save the conditions under which markets – and civilisation itself – can operate, says senior Allianz figure

When insurance companies warn about the damage capitalism is doing to the world and the way the world will strike back, you wonder if enough people will stand up to the 'Drill baby, drill' attitude to make a difference: www.theguardian.com/environment/....

Privatizing water (and keeping it in private ownership) when almost no other country does is another ridiculous, harmful example of British exceptionalism. There is no defence for continuing it.

Save our staff at University of Bristol's Centre for Academic Language and Development (CALD) Dear Evelyn Welch (Vice-Chancellor) cc Judith Squires (Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Provost) Staff at University of Bristol have been told that devastating job cuts are planned at the Centre for Academ...

Sign and share Bristol UCU's open letter to the Vice Chancellor calling on the university to reconsider devestating cuts to staff teaching English to international students: speakout.web.ucu.org.uk/save-bristol...

Why Labour's neglect of Higher Education is not fiscal prudence. It's submission to Reform UK:

Elon the narcissist remaking America in his own money-can-do-anything image

'The University of Bristol has embarked on a path like a death spiral' UCU members are opposed to academic departments across the university having to make at least a 50% operating surplus

Excellent analysis of management's response to the University of Bristol's current finances and credible call for an alternative vision: www.bristol247.com/opinion/your...