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Following the Four Corners and ABC reporting based on CICTAR's research cictar.org/news/abc/chi... it's good to see the Australian Government cracking down on 'unscrupulous early childhood education and care providers'

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And from our comrades at UWU:

Business Insider covers CICTAR’s latest report on Starbucks — Centre for International Corporate Tax Accountability and Research Reporting from ‘Business Insider’ on CICTAR’s latest report on Starbucks

"It's not like they're roasting coffee or researching the different types of beans or anything," Ward said. "There's nothing like that going on there." Business Insider covers CICTAR's latest research on the cosy relationship between Starbucks and Switzerland, here: cictar.org/news/busines...

Why is Starbucks using a programme it promotes to improve conditions for growers in the Global South to reduce its declared profits in the countries where it sells its drinks?

Starbucks’ Swiss Scheme: ‘Fair’ Trading or Global Tax Dodge? — Centre for International Corporate Tax Accountability and Research Report reveals $1.3 billion Starbucks profit diverted to Swiss subsidiary over the last decade. 99% of all the corporation's coffee is transferred, on paper, through Switzerland, despite most of it ne...

Our latest report finds that Starbucks seems to have used its ‘ethical sourcing’ programme for coffee beans to route $1.3bn of profits through Switzerland, likely substantially reducing its tax bill cictar.org/all-research...

Property Speculators Extract €2.5 bn Annually From the French Health and Social Care System — Centre for International Corporate Tax Accountability and Research CFDT Santé-Sociaux and the Centre for International Corporate Tax Accountability and Research launch a new study of private hospital giant Ramsay Santé revealing loss-making hospitals while profits are booked in other companies as rents and sales commissions

Property speculators extract €2.5 bn annually from the French health and care system, finds the new report from CICTAR and
@cfdt-sante-sociaux.bsky.social

That's enough to pay for the salaries of over 82,000 nurses

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I remember him writing a few years ago that he could never understand why anyone would order takeaway… Why waste money when cooking is so enjoyable and no one is ever tired at the end of the day…? It reeked a little of Jamie Oliver and the turkey twizzlers

Tag yourself. I’m “elite” trade union official

Waking up in a cold sweat screaming “OMOV! OMOV!”

Remember Scottish labour students conferences? Remember? I do…

From Beirut to Khartoum, the Arab world is changing beyond our recognition | Nesrine Malik The Arab world is increasingly divided between those who are losing everything, and those who have everything, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

A moving and sobering piece from @nesrinemalik.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Which section of a #Wikipedia article do you jump to first? If the answer is not “Controversies” or “Personal Life”, you’re lying.

Just saw it. TBH I was a bit disappointed. I felt it lacked accumulation of tension and then the deus ex machina (pardon the pun) didn’t do much for the strength of the narrative, either. It was no “Young Pope”… Let’s put it that way

Totally. Mine are “¿qué sé yo?” and “es lo que hay”. And ditto, also used involuntarily in English and also calqued into French, too much bemusement from my interlocutors

The trailers inform me that Robbie Williams has made a biopic in which he is portrayed by a CGI chimpanzee. This is why I don’t come to the cinema more

A concrete tower in the Barbican complex, London

i ❤️ brutalism

Nice to meet you! I like wordblank. In Scots we have a word “tartle” which is when you see someone you have met before but blank in their name.

I’d go further and say any amount is better than nothing. Can’t count how many times couple of words has bought good will from folk, even if we end up defaulting to another language.

A1 gets you enough to read a basic menu and ask for directions, that’s already a big help travelling! #langsky

Can’t help but feel that the 1918 election would have been less dramatic if done under STV… #ge24

There needs to be a word for the frustration of knowing the right word in another language but not being able to think of the equivalent in your native tongue

(Me pasó ayer con “vigente”…) #langsky

Screenshot of a UK Labour Party tweet, in which the Tweet says "The Tories lost control of our borders. Labour is taking it back," and the image is of Keir Starmer with a headline saying "Keir Starmer has organised the three largest deportation flights in UK history."

I get the political calculation here. I'm just gonna point out that the predominance of research into European parties' efforts to outflank the far right like this has found that they merely legitimised the far right's political framing and led voters to opt for the "full fat" version.

Thyme is always an adequate substitute for rosemary, but never the other way around. Discuss.

Pero es el lector quien tiene lástima? O le tenemos lástima al lector? Añoranza lingüística ?

The aesthetics of the @bsky.app UI is like an airy, scandi-chic café to X’s smelly, teenage-boy bedroom

And yet, in Quebec it’s vendredi fou…

Me pasa bastante recientemente con La llamada de Leila Guerriero. Libro fascinante que quiero recomendar a todo el mundo. Pero vivo en Londres y el peluquero ecuatoriano de mi barrio no me da bola en cuanto a asuntos literarios

We need occupational licensing for using the word ‘neoliberal’ immediately

Is there a word, in any language, for that sinking disappointment when you want to recommend a particular book to a specific person only to find out it hasn’t been translated into a language they speak? Saudade literária? Übersetzunglosschmerz? Chagrin du traducteur? #langsky

I’m memorandone with this

Shock as ending free movement with Europe causes collapses in migration from Europe.