Dick Cheney created the ground for Trump’s excesses, despite their differences 04. November 2025 (20:35) The ironies of Cheney’s parting of ways with Donald Trump and modern day Republicans are numerousUS politics live – latest updatesHe was the embodiment of America-first ideals before Donald Trump and his Maga movement hijacked the phrase.The principle of a strong president empowered to push through the agenda was core to his view of how US politics should function. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
NHS staff face ‘ugly’ racism akin to the 70s and 80s, says Wes Streeting 04. November 2025 (20:33) Health secretary and NHS England chief warn of winter pressures and rising levels of abuseAn “ugly” racism reminiscent of the 1970s and 1980s has become worryingly commonplace again in modern Britain and NHS staff are bearing the brunt of it, Wes Streeting has warned.Incidents of verbal and physical abuse based on people’s skin colour now happen so often that it has become “socially acceptable to be racist”, the health secretary said. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
Liz Cheney remains a conservative in her father’s tradition despite defying Trump 04. November 2025 (20:28) Though their neoconservative vision may seem less relevant since Bush left office, signs of the Cheneys’ influence linger in Trump’s administrationWeeks before one of America’s best-known businessmen, Donald Trump, was sworn in as president on an overcast day in Washington DC, a different politician with a similarly familiar name took her oath of office elsewhere in the Capitol.Liz Cheney was then both a freshman congresswoman from Wyoming and a stalwart of the neoconservative philosophy espoused by her father Dick Cheney, the former vice-president under George W Bush who died on Monday. Trump had repudiated Bush’s invasion of Iraq in his campaign for president, but the congresswoman nonetheless went on to become an ally in bending Republican lawmakers to his will. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
Maine’s largest healthcare system informed still-living patients of their own deaths 04. November 2025 (20:21) More than 500 people received letters from MaineHealth expressing condolences and providing estate instructionsMaine’s largest healthcare system accidentally sent condolence letters to more than 500 living patients in effect informing them that they had died.MaineHealth attributed the blunder to a computer system error and apologized. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
Dick Cheney’s role in ‘war on terror’ may have paved way for Trumpism 04. November 2025 (20:11) Former US vice-president a key figure in expanding White House’s power and ‘corrupting the intelligence-policy relationship’ to sell Iraq warDick Cheney, vice-president and giant of Republican politics, dies aged 84Dick Cheney, who has died aged 84, came to be seen as a moderate in his later years for his staunch opposition to Donald Trump, but he also stands accused of paving the way for Trumpism by undermining the independence of the intelligence agencies and US adherence to international law.As George W Bush’s second-in-command in the “war on terror” declared after the 9/11 attacks, Cheney made himself one of the most powerful vice-presidents in US history, and was a key protagonist in the push to invade Iraq, as well as the use of torture on suspected al-Qaida members detained without charge in the CIA’s offshore “black sites”. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
Reeves considers cut to green levies in effort to reduce cost of energy bills 04. November 2025 (20:01) Exclusive: Chancellor hopes to save up to £170 from average bill but industry insiders say move would be ‘disastrous’Prospect of breaking 50-year income tax taboo shows scale of Reeves’s challengeRachel Reeves is considering slashing funding for more energy efficient homes to pay for a reduction in energy bills, sources have told the Guardian, as the chancellor looks for ways to ease the cost of living in this month’s budget.Reeves is finalising a multibillion pound energy support package that is likely to cut taxes and green levies from people’s bills as she looks to save as much as £170 from the average bill. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
RMT accepts three-year pay deal for London Underground staff 04. November 2025 (19:55) Agreement that will increase drivers’ pay to nearly £80,000 by 2027 comes after strike action in SeptemberThe RMT union has accepted a three-year inflation-plus pay deal for London Underground workers, ending the dispute that led to travel chaos in London in September and increasing drivers’ pay to nearly £80,000 by 2027.The deal, with an initial 3.4% increase backdated to this April, means London Underground staff pay will rise in line with RPI inflation – higher than the CPI rate normally used for index-linked pay rises – with guaranteed minimum rates if inflation falls, making the total deal worth at least 9.2%. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
Sudan civil war spiralling out of control, UN secretary general says 04. November 2025 (19:41) António Guterres calls for the violence to end but there appears little appetite for ceasefire proposed by USThe UN secretary general, António Guterres, has said the war in Sudan is spiralling out of control as he called for a halt to the fighting and an end to the violence.The Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which are reportedly backed by the United Arab Emirates, seized El Fasher in Darfur last week after a near 18-month siege. Some of its troops have posted videos of civilians being shot, including in the town’s maternity hospital. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
Brazil to seek independent inquiry into deadly police raid that killed 121 people 04. November 2025 (19:31) Brazilian president Lula called police assault on two of Rio’s largest clusters of favelas ‘disastrous’ and a ‘massacre’Brazil’s president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, has said his government will seek an independent investigation into what he called a “disastrous” police “massacre” that left at least 121 people dead.Four officers and at least 117 others were killed when police launched a major assault on two of Rio’s largest clusters of favelas, the Complexo do Alemão and the Complexo da Penha, early last Tuesday to execute 100 arrest warrants. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
Sheinbaum denies reports US will send troops to Mexico: ‘It’s not going to happen’ 04. November 2025 (19:31) President says she’s repeatedly rejected such offers from Trump for US to confront Mexico’s powerful drug cartelsMexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum has flatly denied reports that the United States is planning to send troops into Mexico to confront the country’s powerful cartels, noting that she had repeatedly rejected such offers from Donald Trump.“It’s not going to happen,” Sheinbaum said during her daily morning news conference on Tuesday. “We do not agree with any process of interference or interventionism.” Continue reading...(The Guardian)
