Stephen McDonald

So there are three elections. There's local government elections here in England, including in London, and then there are elections to the Scottish and Welsh parliaments. And what we do know from the results already in is that they are totally disastrous for both the governing Labour Party, but also for the Conservatives. And that does seem to suggest that we are at a really seismic moment in British politics, where we are beginning to see

Jopa pysyvällä tasolla tai ainakin erotellaan kaksi-paikkojen järjestelmää konservatiivisen ja Labourin brittisen poliittisen dominanssin viimeiset 100 vuoden aikana. Ja niin, melkein pivottava momentti, vaikka meillä on vain näitä osa-arvoja. Mitä se tarkoittaa?

Well, in the short term it is really bad news for Sakhir Starmer, the prime minister and leader of the Labour Party, and already there have been calls for him to resign. And I think the next 72 hours are absolutely vital for the prime minister's survival. He has already come out and said that he is not going to walk away and leave the country in chaos. In other words, he's put out a message to those in the Labour Party who might want to move against him to get rid of him, that he's not going to go quietly. That's

The sort of short term of the immediate focus, but I mean longer term is this uncharted territory of what would a Britain look like if it had a more fragmented politics, if it had a politics more like the politics of many European countries, continental European countries with multi-party systems. I mean, it's early days yet though, isn't it? These are local elections that are often used by voters as a bit of a protest against the government. So can we really say that this is, you know, the dawn of a new era?

I think you're right to raise that question. I think, though, that we probably are for the following reasons, and that is that the factors that appear to be driving this volatility in British politics, and indeed the politics of many other European countries, that don't look like going away, and briefly they are.

Kiitos, että katsoitte.

Toivottavasti ääni kertoo hieman tarinaa. Hänellä tuli todellisen rockstarin terveys, kun hän meni TNT Pool Hallissa Xi'anissa. Se on mielenkiintoista, että kokoomus on menossa. Hän oli hieman kuin vihreä vihreä. En ole varma, onko hän jättelähtinyt, koska se on vain kaksi päivää sitten, kun hän on voinut maailmansopimuksen Sheffieldissa. Hän on paikalla ja on takaisin Kiinassa.

Myös joukkueet ovat todella arvokkaita.

The fans are really enthusiastic. It's great to be back, to feel the warmth of the motherland. I hope this sport will develop more and more in China and that more people will play it. And I think probably more people will play it if the size and enthusiasm of this crowd is anything to go by. You know, young and old, lots of little kids, men and women. And there was one woman, a fan, who earlier had won a playoff game.

Everyone loves a winner, but his particular story is incredible. To the west of where I am now in Gansu province, that's his home province, he's even kind of more poor than here, if I could put it that way. He's from a modest background. He drops out of school at the age of 16, moves to Sheffield with the hope of becoming a professional. There he is living with his dad, sleeping in the same bed as him in a flat with no windows in Britain.

Stephen McDonald.

First and foremost, it's my crew's safety first and then my ship's safety.

So as a captain, I would not take this risk at the moment.

I mean, on China's version of Twitter, which is Weibo, the hashtag winning the world championship had, well, 18 million hits when I last looked.

It's the top trending topic on there.

That's how serious they're getting about snooker here.

And it's really a sort of rags to riches tale for him.

I have come here to bury the last remnant of the Cold War in the Americas.

When I hug my kids, that's your fuel.

That's your why.