Unfortunately I have to go on and on and on and on and on about Crowdfunding for our survival. BUT ultimately if you come to Daylight Music on Saturday, this is just as helpful at the moment or SHARE this event. jointhecircle.net/events/404

Listen to Britain’s dawn chorus of 1976: the dramatic loss of birdsong in 50 years

Who in their right mind gets up at 5am to do a jog/shuffle because they are aspiring to run 66 miles in July? Link in bio

Everybody in the "climate space" (which means everyone on earth...) needs to understand these mind-blowing figures. Google's "total electricity consumption jumped from 31 terawatt hours (TWh) in 2024 to 43 TWh in 2025." In ONE year. The AI corporate arms race is eating the world.

The Telegraph isn't funny any more. It's seriously grim.

The unofficially official mantra-turned-tagline of Spacemen 3, "taking drugs to make music to take drugs to," only scratches the surface. Launch into The Endless Orbit of Spacemen 3.

I’m very pleased that the trade press is giving space to the Exeter horror. Next challenge is for them to look a little further down the league tables - Northumbria perhaps, or my own place. We have feelings too.

Loula Yorke The Book of Commonplace #nowplaying #cassunday @loulayorke.bsky.social loulayorke.bandcamp.com/album/the-bo...

Fill yer boots

hello everyone i am working on a big piece for guardian about the CURRENT STATE OF MUSIC ZINES!!!! i have many already but i want to get as many as poss from FAR AND WIDE in uk so pls either fill out the form here or email me directly (email on my website in bio) www.theguardian.com/music/2026/j...

Might be one of the most Qatari things I’ve seen. Massive billboard in San Jose calling on people to become fans and to go to Seattle to go and support the team at the World Cup. Lots of speculation on how organic the Qatar support has been. Team known to have previously paid for “fans” to attend.

Great piece on the courageous FIFA whistleblower @bonitamersiades.bsky.social who explains exactly how Gianni Infantino keeps his iron grip on football & what @fairsq.bsky.social's "Reboot FIFA" campaign is doing about it. By @robhastings.bsky.social inews.co.uk/sport/footba...

Happy Windrush Day. Today is the 78th anniversary of the arrival of the Windrush at Tilbury Docks on June 22nd 1948, an occasion being marked by events and activities around the country.

www.nottscountyfc.co.uk/news/2026/ju... Nice to see the club’s ongoing commitment to EDI being recognised

Earlier this week I was invited to discuss the potential of sport to combat loneliness. The panel formed part of a roadshow event organised by @endlonelinessuk.bsky.social in Blackpool. Before the heavens opened I had a quick mooch down by the seafront

Wirksworth road trip to congregate at the StarDisc for dancing, poetry, music and the custom of dressing the woolly rhino. It concluded with a masked procession down Green Hill to the Feather & Star pub. Happy Solstice those who celebrate

Today is World Refugee Day. Here’s a poem called ‘Refugees’.

Went in pursuit of the new Kid30 #streetart that has appeared on Broad Street. Made for a steady six mile run

Clarifying thought from @jonathanliew.bsky.social on the Guardian podcast. While previous World Cup hosts with oppressive regimes have sought to use the tournament to soften their image, this is the first World Cup where a host wants to use it to show its disdain for the rest of the world.

Infantino claims this WC will be ‘the greatest event that humanity … has ever seen and ever will see’. Amidst concerns over corruption, human rights violations, authoritarianism, and reports this will be the ‘most polluting ever’, I cannot in good conscience be complicit in watching a single minute

This is where the Premier League is really going to be found wanting. Someone who is not deemed safe to be allowed near women and children cannot be allowed to be an owner or director of a football club. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The sad thing is that it's this and only this - a catastrophic reduction in revenue - that could end Infantino's hold on world football. Not the unprecedented corruption and greed, or the embrace of fascism and dictatorship. As long as the trough is full, the pigs are happy.

What's it actually feel like to live through the decline and fall of mass Higher Education in Britain? Today I've written about this from the inside here... Hope you like it, and hope you find it useful. isrf.org/blog/what-do...

“Palestine will not be at the 2026 World Cup. The national team has never qualified for the competition, because producing a suitable squad has been close to impossible in the face of occupation, blockade, and now genocide.” Another vital contribution by @mohamhawish.bsky.social.

New Article: The Folk Art of Football As football supporters, we look for creative ways to express ourselves on the terraces This creativity bleeds into folk art - the act of creating as part of a self-taught collective. Words: Jayne Dent Read here ⬇️ www.footballheritage.co.uk/the-folk-art...

Dozens of Scottish fans have had their visas revoked by the US in advance of the World Cup with no reason provided. www.thenational.scot/news/2617195...

This World Cup is just an excuse for the most pathetic little tyrants on the planet to harass racialized people who have higher status.

When war started this moment looked unlikely, but Iran have now departed for WC. Spent 4 days with in Türkiye as they prepared. Watched training, match & spoke to players & officials as visa row went into last 24hrs. Read free on @theathleticfc.bsky.social here ⬇️ www.nytimes.com/athletic/733...

Today’s charity shop haul, though not at charity shop prices.

Things are still in a downward spiral at Cardiff University. The requirement to work in Kazakhstan send particularly worrying. Well done to students and unions for resisting the closure of the humanities floor at the library. voice.cymru/diary-of-a-w...

Important to note that FIFA gobbles up 💰 from on-site concessions at World Cup matches In other words, FIFA💰> fan health & safety

Israel has abducted 20-year-old Palestinian women's national football team player Rand Halawani, abducted former national teamer Natalie Abu Diyeh, and imposed a travel ban on Musab Abu Salem. This is another facet of the ongoing athleticide, likely emboldened by FIFA's refusal to apply sanctions.

With hundreds of jobs on the line and dozens of courses at risk, Nottingham staff living through one of the biggest university restructuring projects of recent years fear they are shouldering the blame for wider failures. Juliette Rowsell reports https://ow.ly/OrVG50Z6KJ1

Whilst lengthy, well worth a read. Underscores what the majority of the fan base already appreciate - trust the process, we are in safe hands www.nottscountyfc.co.uk/news/2026/ju...

Solidarity with all my @uonucu.bsky.social colleagues starting the first day of a 61 day strike today, including the 2700 of us at formal risk of redundancy and especially colleagues in Languages, Music, and Mental Health Nursing whose departments/courses are being closed down altogether.

Action- the administration says they are making 100% salary reductions in response to our marking and assessment boycott and that all other work from participants during this time is "voluntary." Response- We strike for two months straight. westbridgfordwire.com/university-o...

Neat article in the June edition of Left Lion with Sam Heaton, events manager of The Nest (and Eyre Llew band member, who knew?) on the last two years and plans for the future

"Now firmly part of a group of leading figures with multi-dimensional influence across the international sports business, the Forest owner..." The Forest website puts Pravda to shame.

Future of first Bramley apple tree in doubt as cottage where it stands is sold

Martin Paterson’s impressive list of connections apparently extend to anyone born in the Potteries

We used to talk about the University as an "anxiety machine", producing intolerable working conditions (slowness, for example, was a response), but it's really become a "grief machine" and I'm not sure we know what to do with the pain and loss yet.

No, I don't need a bloody copilot for this document, thank you. Writing is, in no small part, a tool for thinking. If you outsource that element to a machine that cannot think, you shouldn't be surprised if, at the end of the process, neither you nor your reader are any the wiser.

Still basking in the euphoric glow of Monday’s dominant playoff final victory, and the prospect of adding to my treasured @noscoredraws.com mug collection

IOC boss Kirsty Coventry: "I don't believe in paying athletes." 0.5% of the IOC's $1.5B revenue from the Olympics currently goes to the athletes. (You know, the ones entirely responsible for the commodity spectacle that generates that revenue.) sportnation.nz/article/i-do...

I could watch Gary Neville watching Salford get battered every day of my life. Sheer delightful football.

I wish I hadn’t been reminded of Notts’ abysmal head-to-head record against Salford City on the BBC Sport website, but then after reading this I’m not convinced by the robustness of their reporting

UC Berkeley Law creates new AI policy that bans AI for "conceptualizing, outlining, drafting, revising, translating, or editing any work submitted for credit" or exams because "thinking remains the sine qua non of good lawyering (and of a quality legal education)." That's what I'm talking about.

"When everything exists primarily for someone else’s gain—even your child’s Saturday-afternoon game—it breeds emptiness and resentment." Frankly, this is the payback for decades of US semi-professionalisation of children's sport. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

1/ The EFL Championship play-offs have been rocked by “Spygate 2.0”. Southampton FC have been expelled from the play-offs, with Middlesbrough reinstated to face Hull City in the final. A major integrity case in modern English football. ⚖️

FIFA gives a “big middle finger” to the planet by hosting an event that will produce 9m tons of carbon dioxide equivalent.