Shane

The mess Trump is creating will take generations to fix. American soft power is in freefall because nobody trusts or respects the US anymore. You cannot lead the free world when your own foreign policy is an unpredictable, unreliable disaster

@jrkdenison Get yourself a rescue dog, we've had several over the past 40 years, and they will pay you back in spades. Plus a mongrel comes with far less health issues.

I can't afford a dog at the moment (fortunately my mum is planning to get a Lab or a Springer in the foreseeable future) but when I do it will almost certainly be one of these wonderful goofballs. I love the Dobermann too, but the Rottweiler just edges it. You?

We have yet to feel the full force of oil and gas price spikes and energy shortages.  But they’ve started in Asia, the destination for most oil and gas that went through the Strait of Hormuz. They’re now coming our way, arriving by the middle of April at the latest, as they roll west across the globe.  Just because it hasn’t happened yet doesn’t mean it isn’t going to. Energy shocks unfold sequentially NOT simultaneously.  People and politicians haven’t yet woken up to this. Yesterday on this show we spoke to Greg Newman, an experienced energy trader. He warned of major problems coming down the pike. He’s right. It was a wake up call we’d do well to heed.  What’s already happening in Asia is a harbinger of what’s in store for us. Huge rises in the price of oil and gas. Growing shortages in diesel and jet fuel. Knock on effects on everything from fertilisers for the spring growing season to microchip production.  About a third of the world’s fertilisers, needed for food production, and a third of the world’s helium, needed for chip production, are produced by the Gulf’s petrochemical industries and come through the Strait of Hormuz. No longer.  Western governments need to wake up to the economic tsunami coming their way. The Starmer government in particular needs to get a grip.  The PM and his ministers are dangerously insouciant in the face of what’s about to hit them. They speak in generalities, with no sense of urgency, complacently out of their depth. I fear they have no idea what’s in store.  They talk about average household energy bills falling by over £100 from tomorrow. What they never add is that they will rise by almost £300 come July.  Soon the price of everything from petrol at the pump to food at the check out counter will soar. Central banks will panic at the sight of inflation reignited — and jack up interest rates.  Remember this — every major energy shock in the past has led to recession. Not because energy prices went through the roof but because central banks pushed up interest rates in their wake, killing consumer spending, the property market and business investment in the process. AND ushering in recession.  There is every chance history is about to repeat itself. Especially since we’re now run by people who are wholly ignorant of that history.  Of course, peace could soon break out and, after a rough spring and summer, normality could beckon before winter is again upon us.  But if the Strait of Hormuz is still closed in a month’s time we will all be paying a steep price for a war — Trump’s War — we did not start and did not ask for. And having to deal with an increasingly deranged White House.  2/2

A big thank you to the spoilt child occupying the Whitehouse.

@chrismchittock We're the same

@ShaneLewis60 These are our last pets. We have the kids dogs when they go on holiday, which is fun but I don’t want to be pushing eighty walking a dog around in winter weather The cat kind of looks after itself but it stops us going away without having to book it into a cattery

I’ve got to take this basterd to the vets later. There will be blood. Most of it mine

@chrismchittock We won't have anymore cats as the locals put down poisoned meat to keep the mice and rats down. Unfortunately, we've lost 4 cats prematurely.

@ShaneLewis60 Same here he’s the last survivor of 2 dogs and two cats all of which had great lives Just back and whilst getting him in his carrier was a challenge once he’d had his jabs he walked back into it, obviously thought get me out of here

@Sam_Arkim @jrkdenison @MolloyLaurence @ReemAmirIbrahim It's interesting that Spain's public health system works out at roughly €2000/head, whereas the UK spends about £3500 (€4000)/head. No public system is perfect, but spending twice the amount for far longer waiting lists isn't good.

@ShaneLewis60 @jrkdenison @MolloyLaurence @ReemAmirIbrahim In the right wing press We don't, these are propaganda, black swan events or complete lies. For example 1 in every 477,000 reams of printer paper is vellum laid parchment for printing of Doctor's graduation certificates, which they will keep for life. Guess what gets the headline

At what point do Brits start to realise this isn’t normal? The NHS needs to be abolished and replaced with a marketised healthcare system.

“Capital punishment is irreversible… we must not take upon ourselves the role of God” - Begin “It is better to acquit a thousand guilty persons than to put a single innocent to death” - Maimonides “Once the law is passed — terrorists will be released only to hell” - Ben Gvir

TV reporter tells David Bowie the internet is "hugely exaggerated" David Bowie's response is the closest thing to perfection about the future.

@Sam_Arkim @jrkdenison @MolloyLaurence @ReemAmirIbrahim Excellent. I've not lived in the UK since 2006, but I continue to read stories of the NHS paying silly prices for basic commodities.

@ShaneLewis60 @jrkdenison @MolloyLaurence @ReemAmirIbrahim Ultracrepidarian much ? You need to stop listening to Tufton St. propaganda and stop thinking everyone in the Public sector is clueless. There a five of these across England. supplychain.nhs.uk/news-article/m…

@__scottsaunders I hope so

Marca this morning putting out there that Florentino Perez doesn't want Rodri. Tonali chances to go to United played down just now. Does this point to United having a better chance of getting Elliot Anderson?

The 3 horseman of Twitter MAGA grifters who stand for nothing.

Governments do not create the wealth. They consume it. It is the people who create the wealth and they need the incentive of tax cuts to do it.

@jrkdenison @Sam_Arkim @MolloyLaurence @ReemAmirIbrahim If someone grabbed the bull by the horns, and explained it clearly to the public, they would receive massive support from all corners.

@ShaneLewis60 @Sam_Arkim @MolloyLaurence @ReemAmirIbrahim I would do it. If it worked, I would also use it to supply the private sector, if it would help to minimise prices.

This means the world economies are in real trouble. Thank you Mr Trump (I trust you've got your bets laid)

This bloke is amazing. Best current world leader by a margin.

I didn't see that one coming

@MichaelVaughan Aggers and Jonners together. What a double act.

IMO Crickets best Radio broadcaster Aggers joins us Tommorow

@Sam_Arkim @jrkdenison @MolloyLaurence @ReemAmirIbrahim Yes, but it's doable if someone had the will, but today's politicians, of any party? Unfortunately, no chance.

@jrkdenison @ShaneLewis60 @MolloyLaurence @ReemAmirIbrahim Would need some huge warehouses. Perhaps 5 across the country, so no 1 hospital is more than 45 minutes away by Transit, in case of major incident responses & to ensure no single flood or fire can bring the NHS to its knees. Same buying team & Amazon style portal across all obvs.