There were boosts for Liverpool and Manchester United (by proxy). We hand out honours and dishonours from the latest round of action

Liverpool

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Matthew Choi disqualified for violating code of conduct after running race with two people on e-bikes in tow

A social media influencer from Texas was disqualified from last weekend’s New York City Marathon and banned from future competitions after he ran the race with a camera crew on e-bikes in tow.

New York Road Runners (NYRR), which organizes the race, said in a statement Tuesday that Matthew Choi violated the group’s code of conduct and competition rules, not to mention those of World Athletics, running’s international governing body.

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What the decision means for homeowners – and the implications for savings, loans and credit cards

• Bank of England cuts interest rates to 4.75%

The Bank of England has cut the cost of borrowing , reducing headline interest rates from 5% to 4.75% – a move that was widely anticipated. It is the second interest rate cut this year.

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The mercury has dropped and our homes are getting chilly. But if your finger is reluctantly hovering over the central heating dial, these electric heaters may be just what you need to efficiently warm the cockles

Are you in need of a stopgap stand-in for your central heating? Or perhaps you’re looking for an efficient appliance to heat a small space. If so, investing in one of the best electric heaters will rid the cold from your home.

Electric heaters range from compact, fast-acting fan-powered models to oil-filled radiators and wall-mounted panels. Some also have smart functionality, so you can ask Alexa to turn up the heat, and other advanced features such as air purification and adaptive heating. But which are best?

Best overall electric heater:
Beldray 2,000W Smart Ceramic Core Radiator
_{£275 at Argos}

Best budget electric heater:
Russell Hobbs Oscillating Ceramic 2kW Heater
_{£49 at Very}

Best fan heater:
Dyson Purifier Hot+Cool Formaldehyde
_{£549 at John Lewis}

Best stove-style electric heater:
Everhot Electric Heater
_{£1,225 at Direct Stoves}

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Former New York City mayor ordered to report to court after date passed to surrender valuables as part of $148m defamation judgement

Rudy Giuliani will appear in a New York City courtroom on Thursday to explain to a federal judge why he hasn’t surrendered his valuables as part of a $148m defamation judgment.

Lewis Liman, a US district judge, ordered the former New York City mayor to report to court after lawyers for the two former Georgia election workers who were awarded the massive judgment visited Giuliani’s Manhattan apartment last week only to discover it had been cleared out weeks earlier.

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This beautifully acted film version of Wilson’s play set in 1930s Pittsburgh is powerful enough without the gothic trimmings it gets here

Eight years ago, as producer-director and star, Denzel Washington gave us an intelligent and deeply felt film version of August Wilson’s stage play Fences , a rich and resonant evocation of African American history. Now as co-producer only, Washington has brought another Wilson play to the screen, another weighty legacy project, perhaps. The Piano Lesson is the fifth in Wilson’s epic Pittsburgh cycle , adapting the recent Broadway production with most of the main cast. It’s another beautifully acted piece of work – though with a startling, even slightly baffling element of the supernatural, a melodramatic séance of strangeness that might have worked better on stage.

Denzel’s son Malcolm Washington makes his feature directing debut, co-writing with Virgil Williams, while Malcolm’s brother John David Washington stars as swaggering, ambitious, but emotionally wounded former sharecropper Boy Willie in 1930s Pittburgh, who has a plan to bully his sister Berniece (the perennially excellent Danielle Deadwyler) into giving him the family piano so he can sell it and buy the land he used to farm back in the south.

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I spent Tuesday night watching the election results with Arab friends. We woke the next day with a familiar feeling

I woke up on Wednesday morning to an email from someone I barely know, a white woman I met at a party this summer. The email was empty and the subject line simply read: “What a heartbreak”. She was writing to me, someone she spoke to just once for five minutes, about Donald Trump winning the US presidency.

This liberal (let’s call her Suzie) and millions of other voters are waking up with a fear that they haven’t felt this intensely in four years. And her new fear made her think of me, a random Arab she met one time. Maybe Suzie assumed that I share her fresh dread.

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Americans believe firmly in democracy, and Trump winning is not an endorsement of authoritarianism

Democracy requires faith of various kinds. It requires faith in the wisdom of the people, in the durability of its institutions and in a future that we cannot foresee.

As one commentator aptly puts it , we must “recognize that democracy is a process and not a destination”.

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People have never been swayed by ‘rational debate’. Only a genuine change in the way we do politics can prevent the march of the right

We were losing slowly. Now we are losing quickly. Democracy, accountability, human rights, social justice – all were rolling backwards as money swarmed our politics . Above all, our life-support systems – the Earth’s atmosphere, oceans, ecosystems, ice and snow – have been hammered and hammered, regardless of who is in power. Donald Trump might strike the killer blows, but he is not the cause of an ecocidal economic system. He is the embodiment of it.

Under Joe Biden, the US was missing its own climate goals, and those goals were insufficient to meet the global objective of limiting heating to 1.5C above preindustrial levels. That target in turn might not be tight enough to prevent a tipping of Earth systems. Already, at roughly 1.3C of heating, we see what looks alarmingly like climatic flickering : the ever wilder perturbations that tend to precede the collapse of a complex system.

George Monbiot is a Guardian columnist

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