Aldi to launch online wine sales early next year

Discount grocer opens up new line of attack in supermarket wars by selling wine per case in its first onlien venture

99 Homes review – chillingly topical eviction drama

Michael Shannon is lip-smackingly good as a reptilian real-estate broker forcing hard-up homeowners on to the street

The Guardian view on Hinkley Point C: overcomplicated, overpriced and overdue

Editorial: Nuclear power may be necessary to limit climate change, but this is the wrong nuclear option

Airbnb not very accommodating when my rental was cancelled

The host cancelled and now I can’t get my deposit back

San Francisco housesitter rents out someone else’s apartment on Airbnb

John and Ed paid a professional to look after their slick city apartment only to discover it had been rented out, coincidentally to one of their friends

May the force be with your Star Wars memorabilia

It’s a starry-eyed dream: buying a cheap plastic Star Wars figure that turns into a stellar fortune. With a new film due, is it still worth investing?

Talktalk runaround when it came to our broadband

We have received only an intermittent connection but now it’s charging us for leaving

Will robots create more jobs than they destroy?

As advancing technology changes the face of employment in the 21st century, is the human workforce being made obsolete?

Markus Persson: the Minecraft billionaire sending lonely late-night tweets from Ibiza

He might have sold his creation to Microsoft for $2.5bn, but the mega-rich Scandinavian games developer says money doesn’t guarantee happiness

Work is no cure for illness – the 24/7 culture is making us sick

Iain Duncan Smith is about to announce a radical reform of sickness benefits. But what is really needed is a fresh look at the broken employment sector

The great Uber fairness fallacy: as a driver, how do you bargain with an app?

Businesses have been shedding their identity as employers for at least 30 years, profiting from the work performed by ‘independent contractors’ without the cost, risk or aggravation of actually dealing with employees

The office after Amazon: is the workplace becoming a jungle?

The recent claims about Amazon’s aggressive corporate culture were a cause of consternation to many – but plenty of others couldn’t see what the problem was. So is a gentler, more relaxed office culture any better for employees? And is it even what they want?