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Kemi Badenoch and the reality of Tory inclusivity | Letters

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 7 November 2024

Paul McGilchrist and Prof John Denham examine Tory identity politics under Kemi Badenoch’s leadership. Plus a letter from Shaun Soper on the potential Conservative leader waiting in the wings

Nesrine Malik is right that, as with Rishi Sunak, Kemi Badenoch’s elevation to Tory leader is “a first that signifies nothing” ( Opinion, 4 November ). Conservatives are fond of downplaying the significance of colour as purely happenstantial, yet boasting about their promotion of those possessing it. It is a pity then that skin colour seems to signify so much they find problematic in those beyond the embrace of Westminster and Tory constituency parties.

Badenoch is chief among those on whom the party’s inclusive credentials depend, but who spend their time in the vanguard of culture and immigration wars, attacking, undermining and inhibiting those for whom colour is a defining characteristic.

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Proportion of young people in the UK with gambling problem has more than doubled, official data reveals

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 7 November 2024

Gambling Commission figures shows shock surge to 85,000, in number of children deemed to have addiction

The proportion of young people in Great Britain with a gambling problem has more than doubled, according to “astonishing” official data that prompted calls for urgent government intervention.

New figures from the Gambling Commission, which regulates bookies, online casinos and the national lottery, revealed a shock surge, to 85,000, in the number of children classified as having a gambling problem under widely used diagnostic criteria.

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Finally BT has a plan: rein in foreign adventures and concentrate on UK

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 7 November 2024

Timing of chief executive Allison Kirkby is good after ‘weaker non-UK trading’ blamed for soft revenue forecast

It feels like BT has been promising to simplify forever but here comes the newish chief executive, Allison Kirkby, with a plan that sounds more promising: rein in the foreign adventures and concentrate on the UK.

It makes sense because BT’s long-term fortunes ultimately rest on the progress in its home market of EE in mobile, Openreach in broadband, and the UK corporate business. Kirkby’s timing is also good. One of the explanations for Thursday’s soft revenue forecast that sent the shares down 4% was “weaker non-UK trading”.

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Swiatek tumbles out of WTA Finals after Krejcikova sees off Gauff

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 7 November 2024

Swiatek exits on sets percentage despite routing Pegula
Krejcikova and Gauff progress to the semi-finals

The defending champion, Iga Swiatek, was knocked out of the WTA Finals after Barbora Krejcikova defeated Coco Gauff to book her spot in the last four.

Swiatek had earlier needed less than an hour to dispatch Daria Kasatkina, who had replaced the injured Jessica Pegula, 6-1, 6-0 in the opening match of the day in Riyadh.

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Teenager who smashed window during Middlesbrough riots freed on appeal

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 7 November 2024

Judges suspend Dylan Willis’s jail term on account of his ADHD and low IQ but uphold sentences of three other men

A teenager jailed for smashing a restaurant window during rioting in Middlesbrough is to be freed after appeal judges ruled that a court had not considered his complex developmental and mental health background.

Dylan Willis, 18, who pleaded guilty to violent disorder after repeatedly smashing the window with a brick, had his 14-month sentence suspended by court of appeal judges on Thursday.

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Bentley puts back its switch to electric-only cars from 2030 to 2035

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 7 November 2024

Luxury carmaker also says it will reveal its first electric model – an ‘urban SUV’ – in 2026

Bentley Motors has said it will continue to sell fossil fuel cars until 2035 – five years later than previously planned – as the luxury carmaker announced its first electric vehicle will be an SUV.

The British brand said it would reveal its electric “urban SUV” in 2026, in an update to its strategy on Thursday.

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Ben Jennings on Trump’s victory and a bleak outlook for the planet – cartoon

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 7 November 2024

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New Star Wars trilogy in the works from Lucasfilm and X-Men writer

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 7 November 2024

X-Men and Deadpool writer Simon Kinberg has been hired to write and produce a new trilogy with new characters

A new Star Wars trilogy is in the works from Lucasfilm and X-Men’s Simon Kinberg.

According to Deadline , the new films will reportedly take place after the most recent trilogy that concluded with The Rise of Skywalker in 2019. It will allegedly involve new characters and a new storyline, although the return of known names popping up has not been ruled out.

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‘A new start’: Venezuelan leader extends olive branch to Donald Trump

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 7 November 2024

Nicolás Maduro once called Trump a ‘racist cowboy’ but is now seeking rapprochement with the US president-elect

During his first administration, Donald Trump waged a “maximum pressure” campaign against Nicolás Maduro , unsuccessfully trying to depose Venezuela ’s authoritarian leader with an arsenal of sanctions, cyber-attacks and threats.

But this week Maduro extended an olive branch to a man he once called “a miserable racist cowboy” , fuelling speculation that Trump’s second presidency might witness an unlikely rapprochement between the two strongman survivors.