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Hugh Grant’s witness statement to the Leveson inquiry – full text

Read the star's full written statement to the inquiry detailing incidents of press intrusion and alleged phone hacking

Leveson inquiry: Hugh Grant delivers damning testimony

Actor reveals himself to be thoughtful, articulate, brave in an unheroic way and – at least twice – very kind

Leveson inquiry into phone hacking: first witnesses – profiles

Bob and Sally Dowler, Hugh Grant, writer Joan Smith and Ashley Cole's solicitor Graham Shear were all allegedly targeted. By James Robinson

US publishers seek bargain-hunters with online shopping deals

After the coupon craze, newspaper owners launch their own Groupon-style search engine

If Assange were a print man, would he be called a terrorist?

In their attacks on WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange, traditional news organisations seem to have forgotten that his objectives are the same as theirs, writes John Naughton

News International ‘fully admitted’ liability for email hacking

NoW accepted liability over allegations from Sienna Miller which included that her private emails had been opened

Hacking away at the truth: Alan Rusbridger’s Orwell lecture

Full text of the Guardian editor's Orwell lecture on journalism and the phone-hacking scandal, given at University College, London

Guardian wins again at Games Media Awards

Steve Boxer: We claim best newspaper coverage of video games for a fifth consecutive year

Don’t listen to the silly burghers – town centre offices are not essential

Roy Greenslade argues that there is no longer a need for expensive, centralised newspaper headquarters

Joyce McKinney and the battle of the tabloids

The beauty queen, the Mormon missionary tied to a bed – Joyce McKinney's bizarre story gripped Britain in the 1970s and is now retold in a fine documentary, writes Andrew Anthony

Independent website to launch paywall for non-UK readers

Indy website will have New York Times-style limited access of 20 free articles a month before users are charged. By Mark Sweney

The readers’ editor on… the rights and wrongs of putting spoilers in reviews

Chris Elliott: Open door: Reviewers have to discuss the nature of a film, book or TV show. But how far should they go in keeping from readers vital plot points or the denouement of a work?

Simon Heffer on the Mail’s RightMinds and why he doesn’t vote Conservative

He says the rightwing opinion site he edits is the Mail's answer to the Guardian's Comment is Free. By Roy Greenslade

David Cameron plays the leader in front of Hugh Grant

Jonathan Jones: It is impossible to ignore the contrived appearance of the prime minister when you contrast him with the actor's earnestness

Hugh Grant: ‘I warned Osborne that it was a mistake hiring Andy Coulson’

The actor explains how he had heated words with the Chancellor when they met at a dinner party before the 2010 election

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  • Disclosure Day: alien conspiracies, car chases and a jaw-dropping climax – discuss with spoilers
  • Familiar Touch review – Kathleen Chalfant is wonderful in subtle, sensual memory loss drama
  • Starmer says he hopes social media ban for under-16s will come into force next spring – UK politics live
  • UK under-16s social media ban: which apps will be blocked and how will it work?
  • Angel’s Egg review – Mamoru Oshii’s dazzling 1985 anime is an eerie philosophical adventure
  • Social media to be banned in UK for under-16s, Starmer announces
  • The problem with ‘loneliness influencers’ isn’t their friendlessness – it’s the air of cosy defeatism
  • Dry Leaf review – three-hour amble around the football pitches of Georgia in search of a daughter
  • ‘More relevant now than ever’: how Virginia Woolf recaptured the cultural zeitgeist
  • ‘Distressingly beautiful and disorienting’: the Willem Dafoe film that only one person can see at a time
  • Europe is starting to break up with US big tech. But it’s still abiding by the Silicon Valley rulebook
  • Starmer to announce ‘Australia plus’ ban on social media for under-16s
  • A day in the life of a dancer who went viral for pretending to be a parakeet
  • Why is the UK launching an ‘Australia plus’ social media ban and how will it work?
  • Scientists are working on headphones that block annoying noises and allow the ones you love? I can’t wait!
  • Readers reply: Experts say we should use passkeys, but can a smartphone pin really be safer than a password?
  • Elon Musk and co may relish march of the robots but there must be AI boundaries in the workplace
  • ‘Have I been influenced, or is this actually me?’ How personal taste fell out of fashion
  • X accused of giving racists ‘impunity’ after refusing to bar N- and P-word posts
  • NHS staff battling wave of food supplement disinformation
  • ‘I should know better’: tech expert lost £70,000 in one simple phone call
  • Make platforms that promote violent content pay towards riot costs, Streeting says
  • UK government announces £132.5m after-school clubs package
  • Pioneering UK Nerve Lab harnesses AI to map effect of children’s screen time
  • ‘Loneliness influencers’ are racking up views. After a breakup, I see the appeal
  • ‘Why would you put a toxic product into the hands of a young child?’: director turned activist Beeban Kidron on why big tech needs its ‘tobacco moment’
  • ‘A movie for everyone, not just Drag Race fans’: stars of drag comedy Stop! That! Train! on making the summer’s funniest film
  • The Guide #246: Does World Cup fever leave you in a cold sweat? Here’s how to escape the footie
  • UK parents support an under-16 social media ban – but what do their children think?
  • From Olivia Rodrigo to The Fall of Sir Douglas Weatherford: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead

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