Starbucks UK sales and number of shops increase but appears to pay no corporation tax.
The trick is profit shifting through intragroup transactions to low/no tax jurisdictions - royalty payments, management fees, interest on intragroup loans.
Company accounts comply with UK law but are opaque.
The Zone They Didn’t Tell You About
How a 616-acre corporate enclave was quietly built in Somerset, and why the Guardian’s coverage of the Agratas gigafactory grant tells only half the story.
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Digger on Felks Stile Road, near Crosland Heath Golf Club, where stone barn used to be.
A land mark has gone! The old stone barn, at the top of the hill between Crosland Heath golf club, and the old fireworks factory, has just been demolished. #Huddersfield #Golcar #ColneValley
Hardly surprising, since they are stuffed with chemicals used to keep the solids from settling in the carton (which used to happen to soya milk a couple of decades ago, but doesn't any more).
#fortean
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
This is grim www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Ah - those Cheshire mountains...
Vickers & Krupp held a covert joint board meeting (in Portugal) during WW1 - to sort out how to keep both sides supplied with steel. It seems to happen when corporations become bigger than states. As now.
Just a reminder in January the US shipped its minesweepers back from the Middle East to America for decommissioning
I see New Scientist have deleted their post. Phys.org have a better write-up of the same story. It is the *bore* that is 3.1mm diameter.
phys.org/news/2026-03...
No, no, no, no, and five times no, wikipedia. What has got into you? Stop this shite at once. I'm not going to donate any more money, while this monstrosity exists.
Horrendous animation forced on us by idiots at wikipedia.
@wikipedia.org WTF is this? I cannot read text on a screen when there is animation present (motion/flicker sensitivity). It means I'm going to have to "pause" this damned thing every time I access an article. This is not acceptable. It needs a global switch off option.
The magnet in the article is stated to be "3.1mm in diameter". That is not "palm of the hand" size - it is a "held between finger and thumb" size. New Scientist articles seem to be increasingly sloppy nowadays.
"In the Labour Party we spend all our time talking about getting rid of the leader and never do it."
Harold Wilson was born 110 years ago today.
thelionandunicorn.com/2016/03/11/o...
As the #spycops public inquiry continues, we see reminders that the scandal extends beyond the police into the corporate arena - & some people straddle both worlds.This guest post from the Undercover Research Group investigates one of them.
campaignopposingpolicesurveillance.com/2026/03/08/d...
I reckon the 70s Kids TV version didn't have the initial "fanfare", so started more like this (but slower). www.youtube.com/watch?v=936o...
Thanks. I guess its got a good enough "hook" to be an instant earworm. I possibly heard the sport show version on a local radio station in the late 1980s. The early 70s TV kids show may have had different orchestration, and slower tempo, so maybe the same composer reusing the basic melody.
All these records are terrific. This is a theme I remember from a kids TV show in the early 70s (I think). I wish I could remember what the show was caled It was later used on some radio sports show, I think.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=936o...
Leading up to the AV referendum it was clear that many voters didn't even understand it. Lots of people genuinely thought it was like Eurovision voting. I gave up trying to explain it. Turnout was tiny - as most people were clearly uninterested. I'm glad it failed - as AV is crap. We can do better.
Two scientists walk through a cluttered old-fashioned science laboratory. The female scientist says “Analogue instruments! Paper records! Chalk boards! I thought you'd agreed to modernise the laboratory?” The male scientist replies “That's what i'm so excited about: we have moved to cloud-based storage for our data!” They step out onto a balcony. She says: “Please tell me you haven't built a library zeppelin” This is exactly what he has done. It floats across the sky and he adds “It's got a fax machine!”
My cartoon for this week’s @newscientist.com
GSK CEO got 50% pay rise to £15.6m.
Did you?
Neoliberals moan about rise in minimum wage. Govts preach pay restraint to workers. Silence on profiteering, hikes in exec pay/perks, dividends, share buybacks.
The state devoted to welfare of the super rich.
Water firms sent bailiffs to tens of thousands of homes for debts under £1,000.
Exorbitant water bills. One-third covers interest & dividend payments
Companies paid over £85bn in dividends, borrowed billions to pay. Sewage dumped in rivers, fines waived. No bailiff ever sent. No exec punished
The US kept punching the Viet Cong when they were down.
Just sayin'
A Canadian journal has issued corrections on 138 case reports it published over the last 25 years to add a disclaimer:
The cases described are fictional.
With new reporting that self-styled Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and more than a few senior US military commanders are intent on igniting a Christian holy war and triggering Armageddon, it’s time to re-share this disturbing 1984 radio documentary, “Ronald Reagan and the Prophecy of Armageddon.”
Sloppy writing by the New Scientist. The V1 "doodlebug" was not a "rocket". It was a pulse-jet powered flying bomb.
So yes, a similar concept to the Shahed, but very poor guidance, no propeller, and certainly no rocket.
I've noticed an insidious rise in trolls and shitposters, recently, on Bluesky. It's feeling a bit more like the Xitter world from which many of us were trying to escape. I'm not surprised if its stopping sensible people from bothering. Masto still feels slightly less threatening, though.
Of course it's on the App. And reported on the day. Shitposters like you are not helping anyone. Go back to X where you belong.
