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Defeat Must Be ‘Watershed Moment’ For Reforming Party, Says New Tory MP
The Tory campaign was criticised after it led to a historic defeat and the loss of 251 seats (Alamy) 4 min read23 August The catastrophic defeat suffered by the Conservative Party last month must be a “watershed moment” for how it organises and campaigns, according to one of its newly-elected MPs. Joe Robertson said there is “a widespread acceptance” that things need to change at Tory central office, known as CCHQ. Speaking to The Rundown podcast from PoliticsHome the new member for the Isle of Wight East seat said the role of party chairman has been “a revolving door”, and that the expertise of local activists needs to be used more rather than a top-down structure when it comes to fighting the next election. “I mean, Conservative central office are always there to be knocked, and particularly knocked by people who are unsuccessful, but equally they tend to rely on election victories to say they’ve done a good job,” Robertson said. “And then it must follow that if you don’t win, …
Windies captain excited about prospects despite series defeat
GEORGETOWN : West Indies captain Kraigg Brathwaite is excited about the prospects of a young test bowling attack and batting line-up but said more mental fortitude was needed after their test series defeat to South Africa. The West Indians were beaten by 40 runs on Saturday at the Providence Stadium in Georgetown to lose the two-match series after the first test in Trinidad & Tobago ended in a draw. It was a 10th successive series loss to South Africa for the Windies, who have won three of 34 tests between the two teams, but Brathwaite insisted there were positives to be drawn from the two matches. He pointed to the performances of quick bowlers Shamar Joseph, 24, and Jayden Seales, 22, as well as the spin duo of Gudakesh Motie and Jomel Warrican. Joseph took five wickets in the first innings and Seales returned his best test figures of 6-61 in the second innings to ensure an exciting contest. “The guys have a lot of potential and talent, and they just come out and do …
Labour told it will need to defeat ‘net-zero nimbys’ to decarbonise Britain | Renewable energy
The government will need to “take on net-zero nimbys” and ramp up public investment to decarbonise Britain’s homes, transport and electricity system, a leading thinktank has said. With Keir Starmer promising a rapid transition to decarbonise the power system by 2030, a report by the Resolution Foundation said achieving the target would require more government spending and private investment. However, the thinktank said projects required to meet the goal – including new solar farms, battery storage, and onshore wind turbines – were likely to face resistance from local groups. It said many renewables projects would take place in wealthier parts of the country, and two-thirds of proposed solar projects would be in the richest 40% of neighbourhoods. “Doing this effectively will require overcoming opposition to development from net-zero nimbys, who often live in wealthier parts of the country,” said Jonny Marshall, a senior economist at the Resolution Foundation. “The government must be prepared to win these battles, which won’t be popular with some voters but are vital for the country as a whole.” The thinktank …
Jayson Tatum, Celtics defeat Mavericks to win record 18th NBA championship | Basketball News
The Boston Celtics beat the Dallas Mavericks 4-1 in the NBA Finals to win their first championship since 2008. Jayson Tatum recorded 31 points and 11 assists as the Boston Celtics locked up their league-record 18th championship with a 106-88 blowout of the Dallas Mavericks in Game 5 of the NBA Finals. Tatum also had eight rebounds while Jaylen Brown added 21 points, eight boards and six assists for Boston, which celebrated the 16th anniversary of its most recent title by completing a 16-3 playoff run. The Celtics knocked off the Los Angeles Lakers in the 2008 Finals, and those two teams shared the league record with 17 championships apiece before Monday’s result. Jrue Holiday had 15 points and 11 rebounds and Derrick White chipped in 14 points as Boston wrapped up the best-of-seven series on its second opportunity. Brown was selected as the Finals MVP (most valuable player) after averaging 20.8 points, 5.4 rebounds and five assists. Boston Celtics guard Jaylen Brown (7) was named NBA Finals’ most valuable player (MVP) [Peter Casey/USA TODAY …
Paolini happy despite brutal French Open defeat
PARIS : Jasmine Paolini was no match for Iga Swiatek as she was steamrolled in the French Open final on Saturday, but happiness prevailed at the end of the Italian’s unexpected run in Paris. The 12th seed’s career took a big upturn this season when she won the Dubai title – one of the tournaments just below Grand Slam level – and at Roland Garros, the 28-year-old beat fourth seed Elena Rybakina on her way to the final. While others have crumbled under pressure in their first Grand Slam final, the diminutive Paolini showed no signs of nerves in a bright start as she broke serve for 2-1 with a smile on her face. Swiatek, however, had too much poise and pace for the Tuscan, who lost 11 of the remaining 12 games on a sunbathed court Philippe Chatrier. “She was playing unbelievable level I think all the match. No mistakes, hitting winners,” Paolini told a press conference. “I tried to play my best, but it’s not easy to play at that intensity. I never …
Real Madrid defeat Dortmund to win 15th Champions League
Real Madrid withstood a Borussia Dortmund barrage to win the Champions League for a 15th time as Dani Carvajal and Vinicius Junior struck late in a 2-0 win at Wembley on Saturday. Issued on: 01/06/2024 – 23:05Modified: 02/06/2024 – 09:50 4 min Right-back Carvajal headed in from Toni Kroos’ corner on 74 minutes before Vinicius fired home to extend the Spanish giants’ record as the most successful club in Champions League history. Madrid have now won their last nine European Cup finals and won the competition six times in the last 11 seasons. However, not for the first time in that run, they had to rely on some good fortune as underdogs Dortmund were left to bitterly regret not making the most of their first-half chances. Niclas Fuellkrug hit the post and Karim Adeyemi failed to convert a one-on-one with Thibaut Courtois. Madrid, though, always seem to find a way in Europe’s elite competition and made more history in London. “They left us alive with the game level and in the second half we started …
‘Freedom was around the corner’: how UK activists helped the exiled ANC to defeat apartheid | ANC (African National Congress)
Speak to those who were fighting it from afar, and they’ll tell you that for a long time, the political situation in apartheid-era South Africa appeared intractable. Even as they wouldn’t allow themselves to feel despondent – the campaign to boycott South African goods had, after all, been successful, and few musicians would tour the country – many activists wondered, deep down, if change would ever come. But in the mid-1980s, things seemed at last to shift. Suddenly, the atmosphere was heady. “There was an energy and excitement that I can’t even begin to describe,” says Chitra Karve, who in 1986 had just taken up a full-time job at the Anti-Apartheid Movement in London. “I worked an inordinate number of hours, but I never thought about that. I never even got tired. You were driven by the pace at which possibility was coming towards you: the possibility of real change.” Front row, from left: President of the ANC Oliver Tambo, US civil rights campaigner Rev Jesse Jackson and then Greater London council leader Ken Livingstone, …
‘We can’t defeat nature but we can be climate-resilient’: how plant roots can help stop landslides | Flooding
On 14 August 2023, heavy rainfall in north India triggered flash floods and landslides, devastating the region. Kishori Lal, the sarpanch (head) of the Kothi Gehri village in the Himalayan state of Himachal Pradesh, recalls the events of that day: “Our link road connecting to the state highway and a few homes along that road were completely devastated.” Torrential downpours in nearby Rewalsar, a picturesque lake town popular with tourists, led to several water bodies bursting their banks. The subsequent flooding and landslides wrecked homes in Lal’s village, necessitating the evacuation of hamlets and severing vital links to the outside world. With roads submerged, the ensuing closure of the Mandi-Rewalsar-Kalkhar Road and link roads left scores of tourists stranded and local communities isolated. Amid this chaos, the resilience of Nog, a village in Bilaspur district, stands out. While roads across the region, including those in and around Kothi Gehri, remained closed, the road leading to Nog was accessible in less than one week, according to officials. The reason lies in an innovative approach: soil bioengineering. …
Labour’s Growing Suburban Support And Tactical Voting Could Deliver “Double Whammy” Defeat To Tories
Keir Starmer at the Labour Party national phone bank in London speaking to voters across England last week (Alamy) 5 min read2 hr The Conservatives could suffer a “double whammy” of a Labour vote share that has spread outside of it’s usual concentration in urban centres and tactical voting across the UK at the next general election, according to pollsters analysing the local election results. Labour Together, a think tank formed in 2015, is working “closely” with Labour’s shadow cabinet in the run-up to the general election and carries out polling and focus groups in order to help the party get into power. Director of Research Christabel Cooper told PoliticsHome that the recent local election results, where Labour gained 186 councillors and the Tories lost 474, showed that Labour’s vote share across the country was becoming more efficiently spread rather than concentrated in a smaller number of predominantly metropolitan seats, and development that could help them gain a majority in Parliament. “[Labour’s] vote in the 2010s was just really inefficient,” Cooper explained. “It was …