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The extreme lengths to which Murdoch’s News Group went to justify deleting millions of emails is indefensible, says Gordon Brown, UK prime minister from 2007 to 2010

For such activists, the FCC’s new regulations represent a good start – and just that

Trump fever has broken in small town America, judging by appearances. I have just arrived in north-eastern Pennsylvania for the dog days of summer in a former mining community nestled among beautiful hills by the mighty Susquehanna river. In 2020 it was a riot of Donald Trump flags and yard…

On social media, the far right spread false claims about the suspect, playing into the bigotry of a rightwing populist ecosystem, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

I'm not saying I don't like my job, but I think I'd quite fancy sitting on the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) . Not for the money, of course – though a total compensation package of £163,700 per annum sounds decent. Nor even because I take an amateur's…

Visiting the races this week, it felt as if there was no better place to be in all the world. No wonder the locals were so proud, writes Adrian Chiles

On a scale from one to high street bakery, how poor has the customer service you’ve received lately been? I don’t know what’s going on in London right now but you struggle to find any remotely happy or helpful people in most of the chains these days.

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As more and more giant towers are squeezed in by developers, open spaces and natural light are becoming things of the past, says Guardian architecture critic Oliver Wainwright

Semaglutides are powerful drugs that carry risks, not tools for rapid weight loss, says professor of public health Devi Sridhar

The killing of Hamas’s political leader has raised tensions yet again. Only a ceasefire in Gaza offers any prospect of peace, says the Observer’s foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdall