Brazilian president will take fossil fuel phase-out plan to G20 summit 20. November 2025 (20:29) Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva says he is ready to fight for transition roadmap despite opposition from some statesCop30 climate conference – live updatesAll the coverage from Cop30The Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, has told Cop30 delegates that he will take his fossil fuel transition roadmap to the G20 in Johannesburg this week to campaign for it, despite reports that petrostates have said they will not accept the plan.Before leaving Cop30 in Belém, the figurehead of the global south told civil society representatives he was ready to fight for the proposal to phase out oil, coal and gas in whatever forum was necessary. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
Spycops inquiry: Doreen Lawrence says she does not believe ex-home secretary 20. November 2025 (20:24) Stephen Lawrence’s mother tells inquiry she did not believe Michael Howard when he told her he did not know police had spied on her familyThe mother of the murdered teenager Stephen Lawrence has told a public inquiry that she does not believe claims by the former home secretary Michael Howard that he did not know undercover police officers had spied on her family.Doreen Lawrence told the spycops inquiry on Thursday that Lord Howard, a former leader of the Conservative party, invited her to a meeting shortly after the inquiry was set up in 2014. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
Connie Chan, progressive San Francisco lawmaker, enters race to succeed Pelosi 20. November 2025 (20:22) San Francisco supervisor, 47, highlighting work on affordability for working families in US House runConnie Chan, a progressive lawmaker who serves on the San Francisco board of supervisors, has entered the race to succeed the former US House speaker Nancy Pelosi next year.In a Thursday announcement, Chan, 47, said the race was about “local neighborhoods versus outside money” and highlighted her work trying to make San Francisco more affordable for working families. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
Reeves urged to ‘grasp the nettle’ with wholesale reset of council tax 20. November 2025 (20:17) Experts say chancellor should go further than rumoured plan to update value of homes in top three bands Rachel Reeves has been urged to “grasp the nettle” and kick off a wholesale revaluation of the nation’s homes for council tax in next week’s budget as she prepares to introduce a levy on the most expensive properties.Council tax is charged based on valuations carried out in 1991. The Treasury is understood to have drawn up plans to update the value of homes currently in the top three council tax bands – F to H. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
Councils in north of England and Midlands to get more funding in shake-up 20. November 2025 (19:53) The changes could see funding boosts for Reform-led councils in the north with high levels of deprivation Deprived towns and cities in the Midlands and the north of England are the big winners in a shake-up of local authority funding that will redirect cash from affluent rural areas to urban councils hit hardest by austerity.Ministers said the changes put in place a fairer system that recognised the extra needs and weaker council tax-raising powers of councils in so-called “left behind” areas. It guarantees them real-terms funding increases for the next three years. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
