Is Tim Wilson an ‘inflation nutter’? Why the new shadow treasurer’s RBA comments are making waves

Liberal MP claims the Reserve Bank has been soft on inflation. Labor says questioning the RBA’s dual mandate amounts to a ‘plan for higher unemployment’

Airbus suggests split solution for Europe’s faltering fighter jet programme

Aerospace firm proposes two separate warplanes amid dispute over who leads €100bn project

Rights groups urge airlines to halt ‘one in, one out’ deportation flights

British and French activists write to Air France, AlbaStar, Titan and Corendon airlines over ‘shameful involvement’

‘DEI is dead, equality isn’t’: experts chart path forward amid Trump’s culture war

Two law professors outline strategies for equality’s survival in a Trumpian post-DEI era in new book How Equality Wins

MPs in call to halt Drax’s £2m-a-day subsidy over sustainability doubts

Exclusive: Cross-party group ‘deeply concerned’ power plant may have misled ministers and regulators over source of wood pellets

Ebay buys Depop for $1.2bn in effort to lure younger shoppers

Deal agreed to acquire British secondhand fashion resale app from Etsy as eBay attempts to fend off Amazon

Centrica boss to get £3.6m bonus despite sharp fall in profits

Chris O’Shea will receive a total of £4.7m despite British Gas owner suffering a shareholder rebellion

If Keir Starmer is ousted, Labour could still win the next election. Here’s how that would work

Once a PM is seen as hapless, there is no way back. But Labour has good plans – and with the political landscape fragmented, it could yet prevail, says Guardian columnist Larry Elliott

Ministers must end ‘barking mad’ restraints on civil service pay, union leader warns

Exclusive: Prospect boss Mike Clancy cites problems retaining technical and digital experts

Bill Gates cancels keynote speech in India amid questions over Epstein ties

Billionaire Microsoft co-founder pulls out of India’s AI Impact Summit to ‘ensure the focus’ remains on event’s ‘key priorities’

Retailers in UK plan to cut staff hours and jobs amid rising employment costs

BRC survey finds finance bosses expect technology to improve productivity, with 69% pessimistic about the economy

Coles’ shameless ‘Down Down’ promotions have been exposed. So why aren’t they even trying to rebuild trust?

Woolworths and Coles are big companies that plan to stay around for a long time, yet neither has committed to a policy of truthful advertising

Trump’s immigration siege is rattling hospitality industry, workers say

Unite Here, the US’s largest hospitality workers’ union, says ICE crackdown is harming tourism and costing jobs

FCC chair Brendan Carr says media were ‘lied to’ over Stephen Colbert controversy

Carr says the Federal Communications Commission has also opened an enforcement action into ABC’s the View

‘Grace period’ needed for dual nationals returning to UK on second passport, say Lib Dems

Will Forster MP says ‘lack of planning and haphazard communication’ on new border rules has caused chaos