Today’s UK’s Sun
Via: Louisa Compton
Previously: Tomsense
Monthly Archives: June 2013
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FL3Y6mqqdeY
What you may need to know:
1. Big deal at Sundance this year. I know, right?
2. Written by, directed by and starring Lake Bell. We do love Lake Bell.
3. Hip comedy cast: Demetri Martin, Rob Corddry, Ken Marino, Fred ‘A Serious Man’ Melamed and Nick ‘Parks & Rec’ Offerman
4. Inspired in part by the legendary Don ‘The Voice’ Fontaine.
5. Prognosis: We love a quirky lil’ indie comedy.
Release Date: TBC
Thanks Ruairi Carroll
Google’s Ireland HQ
What are they building in there?
Invoices, mainly.
The company had told [MP Margaret] Hodge’s committee that its advertising sales take place in Ireland, rather than the UK, an argument which she described as “deeply unconvincing and has been undermined by information from whistleblowers, including ex-employees of Google, who told us that UK-based staff are engaged in selling”.
Concluding that Google’s Irish employees simply processed the bills, Hodge said that Google adopted a “highly contrived tax arrangement that has no purpose other than to enable the company to avoid UK corporation tax”.
Google generated around £11.5bn in revenue from the UK between 2006 and 2011, but paid just £10m in corporation tax, found the PAC report.
*sinks into beanbag*
MPs recommend comprehensive inquiry into Google’s ‘unconvincing’ tax affairs (Guardian)
Yesterday: Google Office Envy Latest
Pic Steven Cooper
Colin Furze, a self-described garage inventor has built a jet bike.
I don’t think I’ve ever written a better sentence.
Feeling brave? There’s instructions on how to build your own on his site.
Candy floss, ice-creams and cops on mountain bikes emptying tins of Special Brew into the sand in front of disgruntled half-cut teens.
Yes, the Bray Summer Festival 2013 in Bray, Co Wicklow, [home to several Broadsheet contributors] running from July 6– August 5.
FOUR weeks of music, chips AND an airshow spectacular.
And it’s all free.
Bray Blueshirt mayor Festival Director Mick Glynn sez:
“Bray Summerfest has grown significantly over the last number of years and is North Wicklow’s largest tourism driver with over 120,000 visiting the town during the 2012 festival and brings an economic benefit to the area of €8m.”
Launching tonight in the Porterhouse, Strand Road (“down at the beach”), Bray, Co Wicklow.
The video to accompany today’s ‘Crime Scene Ireland’ special in the Irish Examiner.
A bad time for the non-homicidal crim’.
On conscientious objection, the Bill still provides that no medical practitioner will be forced to carry out an abortion if they have a conscientious objection.
While the bill no longer includes a provision allowing an institution to refuse to provide a termination on the grounds of conscientious objection, department sources insisted this morning that this was because the provision was unnecessary.
The Bill requires the medical practitioner with the objection to provide for the “transfer of care” of the pregnant woman.
The Bill provides a penalty of up to 14 years in prison for the offence of destroying unborn human life.
This is a tighter definition than in the draft heads of the bill, which made it an offence to “do any act with the intent to destroy unborn human life”.
This was said to apply to anyone involved, including the pregnant woman herself.
Protection Of Life During Pregnancy Bill
Two significant changes to abortion legislation (RTE)
Former Fox News loon Glenn Beck.
Has something to share.
“In the next 10 days, you are going to witness things in American history that have never been witnessed before,” says Glenn Beck of an announcement he plans to make “in the next 24 hours.”
He has one document, he says, that will take down the “entire power structure, pretty much everything,” and “greatly divide” the nation.
There goes the weekend.
