A composite image showing Tortoise founder and editor James Harding at top left, the lobby for The Guardian and Observer offices in the top right and a brief opening excerpt at bottom from a new open letter from a group of cultural figures blasting Tortoise's bid to buy The Observer.

More than 70 leading UK cultural figures decry Observer sale as "a betrayal" of liberal journalism.

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