Excellent questions. Maybe it's time for a 'stand my ground' law in the UK, which allows wide lattitude so store security staff can behave like Las Vegas casino security staff. (View Post)

When you combine the shortage of rigs with the current UK tax treatment for exploration, it's no great surprise that there's nothing going on then. It's heads you lose, tails the gover… (View Post)

@MarqueeMark For twenty quid, I can ensure you have the oldest reference to Skyr on PB. (View Post)

Indeed. I was last in China in late 2019 or very early 2020 (just before Covid). And at that time the roads and the pollution were hideous. Now... not so much. It's a whole new world. (View Post)

Ummm: Africa may be better than it was, but I can assure you there's a lot of oil and gas production in the Middle East which is shockingly shoddy, with runoff regularly poisoning the local wate… (View Post)