GlaxoSmithKline, cut its tax bill by Β£3.4 billion - the cost of five new hospitals - via a government scheme meant to boost innovation and protect jobs whilst cutting UK jobs and moving manufacturing abroad.
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GlaxoSmithKline, cut its tax bill by Β£3.4 billion - the cost of five new hospitals - via a government scheme meant to boost innovation and protect jobs whilst cutting UK jobs and moving manufacturing abroad.
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I hadn't watched South Park in over a decade but I'm loving the current season.
05.11.2025 10:52 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The nearest thing we have is education and it isn't 100% effective at preventing infection.
05.11.2025 10:33 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Reagan may have been a disastrous President but I can understand the right's approval of him when you compare his track record to Trump's.
04.11.2025 16:27 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0If only there was a vaccine that prevented transmission of RFK conspiracy theories.
04.11.2025 16:18 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Payroll is way worse than HR, I've been waiting over 20 years for my Soros cheque and they still haven't paid it out.
04.11.2025 16:10 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Halloween gravestone reading βI Did My Own Researchβ in a yard with two skeleton arms sticking out of the grass.
Happy Halloween
31.10.2025 22:35 β π 5892 π 1261 π¬ 38 π 43"I've never seen such a pathological liar", either Loomer doesn't own a mirror or she's a vampire with no refection.
03.11.2025 12:58 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0You wonder how many Christians would die in an invasion of Nigeria and how much a war would cost in comparison to just buying their oil.
02.11.2025 14:17 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0It's just a coincidence that they both have large oil reserves...
02.11.2025 01:50 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0"No more wars", except with countries that have oil...
02.11.2025 01:44 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I'd like to put her out of the country but it would be wrong to inflict her on other people.
31.10.2025 03:56 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0It's always fascinated me that people complain about public surveillance and then pay to bug their private spaces. It's not just audio, people install WiFi cameras in their homes so they can watch their children or pets via insecure devices reliant on Chinese manufacurers cloud services.
30.10.2025 17:31 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Somewhere between Running Man and Soylent Green stage capitalism.
30.10.2025 17:16 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0From your lips....π€
30.10.2025 13:01 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I found it ironic that a man with a face like a potato shaped scrotum criticised someone else's appearance.
29.10.2025 17:35 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Just waiting for UKIP to adopt spiffy Hugo Boss uniforms.
29.10.2025 17:32 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0At the time we had the Communists with Nukes fear hanging over the world, remember Protect and Survive?
The SALT talks were our causes for cautious optimism and thankfully led to the era of dΓ©tente.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yrv...
The youngsters saying how lucky boomers have been are right , I spent the first 30 some years of my life being optimistic about the world and seeing most things continue to get better and the last forty seeing it get worse. We've been damn lucky in our timing and I fear for our grandkid's futures.
28.10.2025 23:20 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0You're upset about the UK selling arms to "a country like Turkey" but not about us selling arms to Israel?
28.10.2025 22:25 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Sadly fascists aren't a new thing for the UK but the transphobia is. It's not just a US import, J.K. Rowling the terf author of the Harry Potter books has been leading the choir for years.
28.10.2025 22:20 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Given the things there are a market for chubby chasing ironing fetishists are probably out there just waiting for you
28.10.2025 11:31 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0It would be simpler to get him a set of toddler reins.
28.10.2025 11:19 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0On my renewal documents my car is valued at Β£128 and I have a Β£250 excess, I just wonder if I'll get a bill if it's a write off.
28.10.2025 11:17 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Presumably that relates to the MRI aka "the best MRI we've ever seen sir".
28.10.2025 11:05 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0You just know he'll post pictures of the gold plated armoured doors.
28.10.2025 11:00 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0It's the duvet changeover season.
28.10.2025 10:58 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Perhaps the 90,000sf includes the FΓΌhrerbunker complex below the ballroom.
28.10.2025 09:24 β π 17 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0There's a certain irony in a ballroom filled with people with no balls...
28.10.2025 02:57 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0