‘Happiness is not just about GDP’: ambitious plan or utopia?

Some will question its credibility – but the alternative future to the one imagined in the Global Justice Report is far more bleak

London hit by second day of Tube strike disruption this week

No service expected on Circle or Piccadilly lines with Metropolitan and Central lines also badly affected

‘I’m asking people to do a lot, but that’s what it means to be a human’: why one man made the first straight-to-video movie in 20 years

Robert dos Santos decided to make his first film after being held at gunpoint once too often. The resulting drama, only available on VHS, is a broadside against AI: ‘Someone once said that if your mum can do it, it doesn’t have value’

A good life for the 99% isn’t a pipe dream: it can be done. Here’s how

Our plan is radical – but by transforming how we live on a finite planet, nearly everyone gains, says Thomas Piketty and researchers from the World Inequality Lab

Widow of gambling addict takes Betfair to court in possible landmark UK case

Success would establish for first time that a betting firm had duty of care to customers with signs of problem gambling

What do UK watchdog’s new rules on Google AI results mean for publishers?

Giving publishers power to block their content from being used in AI summaries will have global ramifications

What does Andy Burnham mean by more ‘public control’ of water and energy? He is too vague

The Manchester mayor is tapping into deep public frustration over the water industry but at some stage he needs to say what he means

City & Guilds faces legal and industrial action over plans to cut hundreds of jobs

New crisis at former vocational charity involves alleged withholding of data and breaching redundancy laws

Fired 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley says CBS told him to inject ‘falsehoods’ into reporting

Veteran journalist says executives pushed unverified claims and gave politicians a say in interviews

Nissan maps out deal to build cars for China’s Chery at its Sunderland plant

Non-binding agreement to start assembling vehicles in 2027 would safeguard jobs at UK’s largest car factory

Australia’s GDP figures are meaningless when the boom in datacentres means destroying jobs and the climate

In the March quarter Australia’s economy grew 0.3%. But the real issue is what drove that growth

Lloyds customers unable to make payments due to IT glitch

Bank apologises after IT update caused problems with Lloyds, Halifax and Bank of Scotland apps

South East Water’s greatest failure was not contacting customers during winter outages, report finds

Fewer than one in 10 SEW customers satisfied with firm’s handling of supply crisis, which left tens of thousands without water

Lloyds, Halifax and Bank of Scotland apologise as users report app and online banking outage – as it happened

Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news

UK government to pay £1.3bn to help fund Universal Studios theme park in Bedfordshire

Chancellor hails deal saying it will create tens of thousands of jobs in the construction, hospitality, creative and technology sectors