Fantastic performance from the Eagles this afternoon & an emotional goal for Leon Lobjoit on our return to The Eyrie. 🦅 💙

Today, Catherine Lloyd and I presented Headteacher Mrs. Rodwell with the English Chess Federation (ECF) BCET award, in front of a packed assembly Park End Primary School. The prize consisted of a top-quality Judit Polgar chess set and pieces, plus a digital chess clock. Congratulations, Park End!

Primrose Hill Book Festival Primrose Hill Community Library 2 & 3 November. Authors include Alan Bennett, Polly Toynbee, Andrew Marr, Francesca Sega, Petroc Trelawny, Hadley Freeman, Nicholas Crane, Nicholas Hytner, David Hare... ow.ly/iTZl50TxMP8

Rush to your radios! Magnus Carlsen appearing on the BBC Radio 4 Today in about half an hour i.e circa 8.30am!

Great listening- Barry Ritholtz speaking with New York Times Global Economic Correspondent Peter Goodman podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/mas…

Excellent journalism from Tarah Welsh and well done to BBC News (UK) giving prominent coverage to an important matter - bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

What a fantastic BBC Strictly ✨ final! All finalists were ace. Well done to the judges, presenters & staff behind the camera & all the dancers (professional and celebrity) Congratulations to Chris McCausland - Pre-order my autobiography now! and dianne buswell 👋👋 Chris's biog at biogs.com/chris-mccausla… 📷BBC/GuyLevy

After an FOI dispute lasting 18 months I've finally obtained the official reasons Boris Johnson gave for peerages of Charlotte Owen & Ross Kempsell. The reasons cited for Owen seem thin, inadequate & lacking in evidence, leaving her peerage as a mystery rather than justifying it.

Games, report and photos from the 143rd Varsity chess match on Saturday at the RAC Clubhouse, Pall Mall, London... saund.org.uk/britbase/pgn/2… ... plus guest of honour GM David Howell, coming to a TV screen near you this evening as chess returns to the BBC.

All the action on #nonleagueday + a couple of outrageous goals from Leon Lobjoit & Bruno Andrade Bedford Town FC 4 - 0 Stamford AFC youtu.be/MtSYzmX3iCI

COYE 🦅

Best of luck to the Eagles. Fantastic season. Well done to all those involved.

The latest issue of George Orwell Studies includes short stories by Ann Kronbergs from the series “Holding Up His Sky: Stories of Women in the Life of George Orwell”. More to follow in future issues.

There's an exciting line-up of events for British Chess Championship Festival: Social chess events at St George’s Hall and a wider Chess in the City Festival in & around Liverpool City Centre. Take a look! britishchesschampionships.co.uk/british-chess-… #BritishChessChamps VisitLiverpool BritishChess

Whilst the excellent commentary continues for the junior rapids, let's congratulate all those who played so well in the junior blitz yesterday and, in particular well done to the winners! You can navigate to all the scores via s1.chess-results.com/tnrWZ.aspx?lan…

Wow! It was already shaping up to be a great Championships and then we get wonderful pairings to kick it off!

The ECF awards have been announced! Congratulations to all the winners. Read all about the winners at englishchess.org.uk/ecf-awards-202… Photos are of Club of the Year - Hammersmith and Small Club of the Year - Bracknell Chess Club (with the Mayor) Hammersmith Chess

Hear hear - great broadcasts! And should be a great denouement to these terrific championships!

RECORD BROKEN! 👀 Congrats to Bodhana Sivanandan on breaking Carissa Yip's record for the youngest girl ever to beat a GM! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿😀 She beat GM Peter Wells in the final round of the British Championship! 👏👏 s3.chess-results.com/tnrWZ.aspx?lan… 📷: Yuri Krylov #chess #womeninchess

It was an amazing day. Full of exciting chess and great competitive spirit - really brought home by the commentators. Fantastic job by all concerned including iowchess.com Alex Holowczak Yuri Krylov Danny Gormally, Nick Pert Matthew Sadler and Natasha Regan