Many prominent Maga personalities on X are based outside US, new tool reveals 23. November 2025 (19:17) Users posing as rightwing Americans are operating internationally, per the platform’s transparency featureMany of the most influential personalities in the “Make America great again” (Maga) movement on X are based outside of the US, including Russia, Nigeria and India, a new transparency feature on the social media site has revealed.The new tool, called “about this account,” became available on Friday to users of the Elon Musk-owned platform. It allows anyone to see where an account is located, when it joined the platform, how often its username has been changed, and how the X app was downloaded. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
BBC to expand standards panel and add deputy director general after bias row 23. November 2025 (19:00) Planned overhaul of editorial guidelines committee would dilute influence of Tory board appointment Robbie GibbThe BBC is planning to overhaul the way it investigates editorial concerns, in a move that will dilute the influence of a Conservative figure accused of trying to sway its political impartiality.A new deputy director general post is also expected to be created to aid Tim Davie’s successor as director general, after concerns that the task of overseeing the corporation has become too big for one person. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
Jair Bolsonaro claims ‘psychotic attack’ made him tamper with ankle monitor 23. November 2025 (18:56) Brazil’s former president says he took a soldering iron to electronic tag as he was hallucinating that it was buggedBrazil’s far-right former president Jair Bolsonaro has claimed he took a soldering iron to his electronic ankle monitor after having a substance-induced “psychotic attack” that caused him to hallucinate that the device was bugged.Bolsonaro made the claim during a custody hearing on Sunday, 24 hours after he was arrested at his home in the capital, Brasília, amid suspicions he was planning to abscond to a foreign embassy to avoid being sent to jail to serve a 27-year sentence for masterminding a failed coup. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
UN warns world losing climate battle but fragile Cop30 deal keeps up the fight 23. November 2025 (18:46) Reaching agreement in divisive political landscape shows ‘climate cooperation is alive and kicking’, says UN climate chiefThe world is not winning the fight against the climate crisis but it is still in that fight, the UN climate chief has said in Belém, Brazil, after a bitterly contested Cop30 reached a deal.Countries at Cop30 failed to bring the curtain down on the fossil fuel age amid opposition from some countries led by Saudi Arabia, and they underdelivered on a flagship hope – at a conference held in the Amazon – to chart an end to deforestation. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
Police name woman who died in Swindon as murder inquiry continues 23. November 2025 (18:27) Sarah Forrester, 55, was found unresponsive at a home in Moredon, with a 13-year-old girl arrested and later bailedPolice have named a woman whose death has sparked a murder investigation.Sarah Forrester, 55, a mental health counsellor, died after an incident at a house in Moredon, Swindon, on Friday evening. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
‘That doesn’t exist’: Doge reportedly quietly disbanded ahead of schedule 23. November 2025 (18:14) Statement by Trump administration confirms longstanding suspicions that Musk-led agency is on its way outThe “department of government efficiency” (Doge) has apparently been dissolved with eight months still remaining on its contract, ending a drawn-out campaign of invading federal agencies and firing thousands of federal workers.“That doesn’t exist,” office of personnel management (OPM) director Scott Kupor told Reuters earlier this month when asked about Doge’s status, adding that it was no longer a “centralized entity”. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
Police disclosing suspects’ ethnicity is fuelling prejudice, say campaigners 23. November 2025 (18:00) Fifty groups write letter calling for policy in high-profile cases in England and Wales to be scrappedThe police’s decision to reveal the ethnicity and nationality of suspects in high-profile crimes has had a “devastating effect” and is helping to spread prejudice, racial justice campaigners say.The warning comes from the Runnymede Trust and 50 other groups demanding that the policy in England and Wales is scrapped, in a letter sent to the home secretary and police chiefs on Friday. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
Minister indicates sympathy for artists in debate over AI and copyright 23. November 2025 (17:00) People rightly want to get get paid for their work, says Liz Kendall, in apparent change of tack to predecessor The technology secretary, Liz Kendall, has indicated she is sympathetic to artists’ demands not to have their copyrighted works scraped by AI companies without payment and said she wanted to “reset” the debate.In remarks that suggest a change in approach from her predecessor, Peter Kyle, who had hoped to require artists to actively opt out of having their work ingested by generative AI systems, she said “people rightly want to get paid for the work that they do” and “we have to find a way that both sectors can grow and thrive in future”. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
‘I used to call him on Father’s Day’: Oakland shattered by football coach’s killing 23. November 2025 (17:00) In a city where football is more than a sport, the gun death of John Beam has provoked an outpouring of emotionFootball in Oakland, California, is more than a sport. It’s a community. In many schools, coaches are like parental figures who get young people through vulnerable times, into universities and sometimes even drafted to the National Football League.So when gun violence came for longtime Oakland football coach John Beam, whose mentorship had changed the lives of generations of students, the devastation reverberated around the city. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
Unions urge Rachel Reeves to deliver ‘living standards budget’ 23. November 2025 (16:45) TUC calls on chancellor to focus on child poverty and upping minimum wageUnions have urged the chancellor to keep focused on raising living standards, targeting child poverty and upping the national minimum wage, in the face of renewed calls from business to change course on employment rights.The TUC said that Rachel Reeves must deliver “a living standards budget” on Wednesday to ease the pressure on working households whose incomes have remained stagnant in more than a decade. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
