Google, Facebook and Twitter need to work harder to combat disinformation on their platforms, the EU says bloom.bg/2qPalG4

A recent study by the EU regarding the cost of Brexit from June 2016 to June 2019 cer.eu/insights/cost-…

Brexit uncertainty and its impact on UK businesses hbr.org/2019/09/resear…

A content-based approach using the subprime crisis as portrayed in The Big Short journals.openedition.org/asp/6107 via OpenEdition

#MondayMotivation “Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out” - Robert Collier. Prepare for success with these 40 free activities for #LearningEnglish that take only five minutes to do! camengli.sh/2qVBNlT #ExamPractice

Is France a sexist country? I guess the answer has to be 'yes'. I particularly like the comment below from Gregor Pardalis +30 700 #DMR sept 18 - 30 nov 25

BBC News - Amazon 'threatens to fire' climate change activists bbc.com/news/business-…

TELECHARGEMENT GRATUIT: Une histoire haletante au coeur de Paris : les catacombes, le Panthéon, le #lyceeHenriIV, #paris5. Facile à lire en anglais #lireenanglais #lecturedumoment #kindle #ebooks #kindledeals amazon.fr/City-Dark-Clai…

"One of the best ways to fool other people into thinking you’re better than you actually are is to fool yourself first." t.ted.com/96bbo6z

How can it be that millions of people live in poverty while working full time in the world’s richest country for the world’s richest companies? How can we tolerate this? The answer is clear: pay every worker at least $15 an hour and let them unionize.

Do you still eat meat? This might make you stop... or maybe start again. Out of the lab and into your frying pan: the advance of cultured meat theguardian.com/food/2020/jan/…

'Insure' is most often used with things that can be assigned a value. We mostly tend to 'ensure' things like accountability and outcomes. merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/…

Should financial markets be influencing the response to a pandemic? Maybe you should read about the World Bank's pandemic bonds, which have $425 million hinging on how deadly the coronavirus will be markets.businessinsider.com/news/1028906657

Idiom: give (someone) the ax ⛏️ = to dismiss (someone) from a job; to fire (someone) His boss gave him the ax. learnersdictionary.com/definition/ax #LearnEnglish #ESL #EFL #ELL #TESOL #TOEFL #Idioms

"Je compte sur vous. — Ah oui, vous pouvez compter sur nous. L'inverse reste à prouver." La réponse cinglante d'un neurologue à Emmanuel Macron en pleine visite de l'hôpital de la Pitié-Salpêtrière à Paris. Il interpellait le Président sur la crise dont souffre l'hôpital public.

Bernie's big problem isn't that he's a progressive; it's that he's a progressive with an attitude: calling himself a socialist when he isn't, denouncing anyone who raises questions as a corporate tool. This thrills his followers, but scares off key constituencies 1/

If you can pronounce every word in this poem correctly, you speak #English better than 90% of native speakers, which is why English is one of the most difficult languages to master. Spare a thought for those who take it up as a second language. #tesol thepoke.co.uk/2016/02/17/eng…

What makes a bubble a bubble? As today's markets swing up and down, the BBC looks at the role of fundamentals in the bursting of the first ever speculative bubble, Tulipmania bbc.com/news/business-…

Happy Int'l Women's Day! To celebrate, here's this week's UN report showing that 90% of people have ‘a deeply ingrained bias’ against women. At current progress rates on #GenderEquality, it'll take 257 years for women to have the same opportunities as men shar.es/aHH7fi