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"SARIKA BOLIYAN" - I can't get over how much I love this video! It just hits the spot! youtube.com/watch?v=Lx5PdW…

@prodnose space is like being in a room with no central heating on a very cold winter day but with a single bar heater in the corner. Mostly it's cold, but if you stand too close to the radiator you can still get burned.

@prodnose in the near vacuum of space heat is transmitted by radiation. So unless you are close to a source of heat radiation like the Sun it's very cold. Your temperature can vary widely with your position.

@prospecttory @UKDemockery @skwawkbox Incidentally if interest rates have to really go up, and they might if the pound is further hit by trade problems, the whole house of cards is coming down. End game.

Cleverly makes an *rse of himself with #LabourLive tweet. Don’t worry, we fixed it for him skwawkbox.org/2018/06/17/cle…

@prospecttory @UKDemockery @skwawkbox Out here in the real world of long hours, low incomes and high living costs, people are being squeezed to death by monopolies in energy, transport, utilities etc. All the Tories offer is we can borrow more money & get deeper in debt.

@prospecttory @UKDemockery @skwawkbox Incidentally Corbyn's manifesto policy on such issues, eg the concentrated energy market is to set up a state owned energy company to compete with the private oligopoly.

@prospecttory @UKDemockery @skwawkbox As far as nationalisation goes, many key sectors are naturally monopolistic, and are weakly regulated. It is competition not private ownership itself which breeds efficiency. In its absence more accountability is neededwhich might be provided by state ownership.

@prospecttory @UKDemockery @skwawkbox More regulation would have prevented 2008 happening for a start. More taxes can be used to target investment strategically into infrastructure to promote productivity growth unlike QE which has led to non-productive growth.

@prospecttory @UKDemockery @skwawkbox State directed investment into infrastructure & other avenues that increase productivity boost growth, raise more tax revenues & more than pays for itself. Austerity halts productivity growth, halts growth, harms revenue generation & sinks the economy.

@Grime4CorbynUK But it comes from the brain too. Capitalism not only makes promises it can't keep, but promises it has absolutely no intention of keeping.

@CapX Flexible labour market signals UK economy is in a downwards spiral of deflation, high street closures, debt and a shrinking domestic market.

A flexible labour market signals that Britain is open for business capx.co/WEAQZ

@prodnose @Baddiel In theory yes, but that would be some telescope.

@Baddiel Light. And light years. If I stood on a planet 130 light years away and looked through the right telescope toward Earth would I see Victorians walking around? #Oscar #Dickens #ElephantMan

Gearing up for the 4th series of David Baddiel Tries to Understand. We've covered Nuts, Electricity, Bitcoin, The Difference Between Sunni and Shia, and many others. If there's any thing that you've never understood, speak now or forever hold your peace.

@Baddiel 'Baddiel tries to understand Socialism' but fails & ends up joining the Tory Party.

Going well with suggestions for new series of #DavidBaddielTriestoUnderstand. Any more for any more?

@the_tpa We ain't dumb, we've still got strong unions unlike private sector suckers. So up yours!

taxpayersalliance.com/there_is_no_ne… Check out our new analysis of teachers' pay. The average teacher earns over £38,000 a year, much more than the UK average. It's not fair for them to receive bigger pay increases than those taxpayers who will be footing the bill for their salaries.

@Lucy_Worsley That's the flight path to the local airport.

‘What are you guys doing in Arizona?’ ‘The long answer is examining notions of American supremacy and exceptionalism during and after the Cold War period.’ ‘And the short answer?’ ‘Looking for UFOs.’

@MichaelRosenYes Because of course meaning in the arts is largely subjective.

A teacher told me that his teaching of fiction(s) had changed because of what I had once said about asking pupils 'how they are affected' by a scene, a story, a moment before getting on to the stuff about what it means.

@MichaelRosenYes Every September going back to school as a child I dreaded the inevitable 'composition': 'What I did in the Summer holidays'.

Why start with a 'topic'? That's very hard. You could start with a story and write a prequel, or a sequel, or a change the time-frame and/or setting, and/or sex of the protagonist and/or turn humans to animals/aliens or vice versa/or write the story from another p.o.v. twitter.com/gayle38/status…

@Pandamoanimum but what we want to know is; are you ready for the week ahead?

@MsLupin @Pandamoanimum This looks like classic 'Chinglish'.

Saw a post on Facebook where people were talking about pets they’d like to own and, after seeing this comment, I need to go and have a lie down in a dark room for a while.