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Four US companies – Amazon, Facebook, Google and Starbucks – have paid just £30m tax on sales of £3.1bn over the last four years, according to a Guardian analysis.

Seumas Milne

The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself.

Par far ła torta sbrixołona ghe vol:

•    200 g de farina bianca
•    200 g de farina xała
•    200 g de farina de mandorle
•    200 g de graneła de mandorle
•    un s-ciantin de sałe
•    na bustina de vaniłina
•    ła scorsa gratà de un limon
•    200 g de sucaro
•    200 g de buro
•    2 rosi de ovo

Come ke ła se fa
In un scuełoto metare insieme ła graneła de mandorle, ła farina xała, ła farina bianca, ła farina de mandorle, el sucaro (tegner da parte do cuciari), ła bustina de vaniłina, ła scorsa gratà de limon, un s-ciantin de sałe. Mis-ciare e scavare in mexo al paston un buxo ‘ndove metare i do rosi de ovo e’l buro tajà a toketi. Insenbrare el paston finkè no vien fora un paston tuto sfregolà. Coverxere el piato del forno con carta da forno e versarghe sora el paston. Se ghe mete sora altra carta da forno e se tien a 150 gradi par 40 minuti. Kuando ke se cava dal forno, se ghe versa sora el sucaro ke xera sta tegnù da parte.

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If you are going to make things up, at least take a leaf from Richard Adams Locke, who, in 1835, revealed in the New York Sun that the astronomer Sir John Herschel had used a new telescope to see the surface of the moon in astonishing detail, including unicorns, batwing humans and upright beavers.

Stuart Kelly

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves

Carl Jung

After 2009 I didn’t really believe I could win the Tour. I thought, ‘That’s for someone else, kids from Kilburn don’t win the Tour.’

Bradley Wiggins

Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan ‘Press On’ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.

The disappointment is great. Nobody is speaking in the dressing room. The players are crying.

Once in a while we put a lot of effort into not making anything. It’s an exercise in loss.