My mayor Muslim, My bagels Jewish, My Christian Fuchs, My Knicks no flukes! KNICKS IN FIVE!!!

Fantastic in depth piece in today’s @guardian about the UNESCO living heritage bid for Birmingham Balti. theguardian.com/food/2026/ju…

I was at the KP in May 22/23, as Leicester were being relegated, and the West Ham fans were laughing their heads off at our plight. Let's hope, for their sake, that relegation isn't as catastrophic for them as it has been for us.

Radiohead's Thom Yorke was inducted into the Fellowship of the Ivors Academy at the 2026 Ivor Novello Awards. Harry Styles made a surprise appearance to honor the Radiohead frontman and his "favorite band." "Thom Yorke has always had a way with words. Over his almost 35 years of releasing music, he's taken feelings of anxiety and alienation and turned them into atmospheres, anthems, and art. From guitars to glitches, he has time and time again shown us what the future sounds like. Never compromising, a restless creative, an artist in its truest form. There are no two songs that sound alike. For so many of us, he lives atop this magical music mountain that we're all attempting to climb. "Some of you had Radiohead albums at the time they were released. Not all of you, but some of you. Their debut album [Pablo Honey] came out the year before I was born. I'm just gonna let that sink in. "So I discovered their songs over time growing up, inhaling the secondhand teenage angst from the stairs separating my sister's bedroom from where I sat below doing my homework. Thank you to my uncle Michael for burning her numerous CDs as he tried to convince her of some of what he referred to as 'some of the weirdest stuff.' I found him again at parties, in treasured moments alone... I lost my virginity to 'Talk Show Host.' "Yeah. I lost my virginity to the intro of 'Talk Show Host.' "Thom's work is music that is felt. It's always been somewhat of a religious experience to me—religious in the sense that the understanding seemed to go both ways. I always felt I could uniquely understand the writer of these songs, and at last someone was capturing what it feels like at times to be human. Thank God someone was doing that. That alien, that prowling ghost, that angry prophet of Thom Yorke. "I cannot overstate how his work has influenced my belief in the purpose of the arts in our world today. And I cannot overstate how much his work continues to influence me. Without 'Exit Music (For a Film),' there would be no 'Watermelon Sugar.' Oh. Imagine that. A world without that song. Doesn't bear thinking about. "Now it's always nerve-wracking stepping onto a stage, but to know that a man I've spent so much of my life listening to is now listening to me talk to you about him... it's a truly terrifying honor. "The first time I met Thom, I was walking in the street in Rome. The previous evening at dinner, listening to The Smile's A Light for Attracting Attention [or Wall of Eyes], my friend had asked me if I'd ever met him and I said that I hadn't. Maybe it was better that way. I'd always been worried that he might be mean to me and emotionally I would never recover. The next day, A Moon Shaped Pool playing in my headphones, I found myself alone with him on a quiet cobbled street. 'Hello Mr. Yorke,' I said. 'Oh, it's you. Hello,' he replied. "I was overwhelmed during our conversations. Our time with giants is not to be squandered. The weight of the moments with the men who have made us is to be noticed. He was light, he was friendly, and he was kind. In a world where outside noise tends to leak into our awareness without permission, among our resented desire to please, a small kindness extended to you by a hero can be enough to release you. I beamed, and I've been beaming ever since. The wizard was also a human. "When asking Thom's friends to describe him in three words, they said he was compassionate, sensitive, devoted, bold, unique, untouchable, challenging, true punk, not for sale. Or, as his wife shared with me: 'Holidays with synthesizer.' "To quote Thom: 'I have no idea what you're talking about. Your mouth moves only with someone's hand up your arse as the light cut out for you, because the light's gone out for me.' [From the song 'Paperbag Writer' / 'Cuttooth' era b-sides]. It is the 21st century. The message is clear: commit to your humor and your heartbreak. Only cowards meet our complicated, beautiful world with distance. "It's an honor to be here tonight to present him with this recognition of his enduring influence on British music. Radiohead is my favorite band. Thank you, Thom." 📸: Greg Williams / Dave Bennett Agency via The Ivors With Amazon Music 2026

Brutalist space-age planters in the Jewellery Quarter. Once found across Birmingham, now untended and unloved, surviving only because nobody’s bothered to remove them. Not everything worth saving is Victorian. Birmingham’s concrete future is disappearing piece by piece.

I suspect Australia will win. But my favourite was probably Sweden. #Eurovisión2026

The male co-host looks like James Woods in Casino. #Eurovisión2026

It's hard to oversell this map - make sure to bookmark it and share it with your friends. Fantastic research that must have been soooo labour intensive: How has the population of evert single small geographic region across Europe changed from 1961 to 2024? You will want to study this map in detail. Source (keep scrolling for a while): correctiv.org/aktuelles/2026…

Wait, there is also an English version: correctiv.org/en/europe/2026…

When the radio is quicker than the telly! @JasonBourne1986 knew he goal was in before the pub!! #LCFC

Good News Friday: From being threatened with demolition to finding a new home and being expertly restored, here’s the glorious Brooklands Park Estate mural in Blackheath, by artist William Mitchell. Commissioned as part of the London County Council Patronage of the Arts project, the mural was designed in 1958 for a clubhouse building on the new post-war estate. The 13 large decorative panels that make up the 20x12ft artwork are made from routed chipboard, inlaid with Bakelite - a pigmented polyester resin. Its organic design is in keeping with the brief of LCC architect Rosemary Stjernstedt, that the housing on the Estate should integrate well with the surrounding landscape. In 2022 it was announced that the clubhouse was set to be demolished to make way for new social housing, causing concern from residents that the mural would be lost. C20 Society worked with @BlackheathSoc, @Royal_Greenwich, local residents and ward councillors to successfully bid for funding from @HOLTofLondon, helping to pay for work to relocate, conserve and restore the artwork.  After exploring several potential new sites, an ideal location was identified at Brooklands Primary School - just 250m from the old community centre and built at the same time as the rest of the estate. For its 2025 restoration, the mural has been thoroughly cleaned to remove engrained dirt, paint damage and to stabilise the top layer of the chipboard, which was delaminating and very flaky in parts. Losses have been filled with pigmented resin and areas of loss retouched and coloured with acrylic wash. It was then set into a bespoke timber frame and reinstalled in the main hall of Brooklands Primary School, ready to be enjoyed and cared for by new generations of young custodians.

Gebirgslandschaft, 1910 Hedwig Scherrer 1878–1940

When does the next Internal Review start? #LCFC

That second half was the final pisstake, in an all-time cuntshow of a season. Massive thanks to all those at the club who helped to make it happen. @BBCRLSport @BSLBPodcast @_mattpiper

Ten years after the fairytale, #lcfc are relegated to League One - a consequence of huge mismanagement, negligence & ruinous decisions. The cycle of football? Absolute rubbish. Completely self-inflicted. Leicester had it all and have totally blown it telegraph.co.uk/football/202…

Tell um again @OwynnPA 👏

If oxford and west brom swap, the first letter of all their names from blackburn down will spell bowls.