Your reminder that $4 a US gallon is around 80p a litre, and that still includes a load of tax in most places. So how much is the UK government going to cut tax on petrol to avert a crisis? (View Post)

“Forget about the Straights of Hormuz, what about the gays of Hormuz?” https://x.com/geiger_capital/status/2038729125653819515 Yet more evidence that last weekend’s protestors didn’t have a clue what… (View Post)

Meanwhile Zelenskyy is in Dubai and Doha, trading thousands of cheap offensive drones for a few Properly Expensive Patriot missiles. (View Post)

It’s fair to say that the GCC nations aren’t seeing it that way. To them, this is their best ever opportunity to get rid of the 50-year problem in the region. (View Post)

The museums. Science Museum in particular is now very good for teenagers, lots of practical exhibits. BM, V&A, NHM, SM, all absolutely world class and with free admission. Tower of London is quit… (View Post)