Ofcom chief Ed Richards said that there is a very big difference between the advertised speeds and the actual speeds delivered by ISPs. Photograph: Gamma Ray Studio Inc/Getty Images Millions of broadband users are being sold short by providers that are delivering speeds far below those advertised,... 

A defaced BP sign on New York’s Houston Street. US politicians will tap into popular anger against BP during the forthcoming mid-term elections, according to one Washington-based advocate for overseas investment. Photograph: Shannon Stapleton/Reuters A Washington-based advocate of... 

Clive Stafford Smith, head of Reprieve, listens to former Guantanamo detainee Moazzam Begg. Reprieve believes Sir Peter Gibson’s views on the intelligence services reflect bias. Photograph: Jane Mingay/AP The government has hit back at a legal charity’s “unwarranted and baseless”... 

Lady Eliza Manningham-Buller, former director-general of MI5. She told Chilcot that, after the invasion of Iraq, she was not surprised that the 7/7 suicide bombers in London were British. Photograph: Graeme Robertson/Getty Images The former head of MI5 delivered a devastating critique of the... 

VAT is charged on newspapers in France and much of the EU. Photograph: Frédérique Jouval/Corbis David Smith, the excellent economics commentator of the Sunday Times, is on dangerous ground as he praises an OECD report on a Britain full of “good ideas”, including “the widening... 

Manchester University stands to lose more than £1m. Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian Universities and colleges are being forced to do without £82m that the government had promised them for the current financial year, it has emerged. The cut will come out of institutions’...