Four minutes after ten years of time. Nothing new, apparently. That's what I do. This is how it works.

This is how we roll, isn't it? I mentioned something on the radio that seems to me to be remarkable. You get in touch in your hundreds to say, oh, it's not remarkable at all. It's been going on for years. It was happening when I was a kid. And I go, oh, well, turns out that's not very remarkable after all. Apparently, theft of fuel from the tanks of lorries parked up in laybys is a well-established criminal trope. But it just struck me as somewhat timely to look. Well, there were two things about the story that struck me, actually. The first was that they were enjoying, what, what are they called, fridgeidge, like meaty snacks.

Fridge, yeah, Frigraders or something like that.

Unfortunately, I've only got the BBC version of the story in front of me,

and they omit the crucial details, like precisely which pork-based product were the police officers enjoying in the lay-by

when they caught a couple of lightly fellas,

allegedly apparently trying to steal fuel from the tanks of nearby lorries.

But it drew my attention back to the story that is rather more important and indeed rather bigger.

That is the story of fuel prices.

Now, on this programme, you don't get to be the biggest programme on LBC by talking about, I don't know, laybys and cycle lanes every day.

But this is, in a sense, a motoring phone-in.

I don't know that we've done one for a very long time.

In a very small sense, though, because what it is really is, of cost-living crisis, phoning.

Coupled with a little bit of Russia-Ukraine tensions

because, of course, the rocketing prices of fuel are linked directly to the tensions on that border,

which we will be crossing live to in approximately 40 minutes for a report from one of the finest foreign correspondents in the game.

There is also, of course, the fact that

the economy has started bouncing back after the slowdowns and indeed stoppages of coronavirus.

The international oil price is teetering on the brink of $100 a barrel and retailers clearly

will be keen to pass on the increase in wholesale fuel quickly to

retail buyers. So the RAC's fuel spokesperson says new records could now be set on a daily basis

in the coming weeks. You'll know this. It's such a funny topic. And I'm not proud of the fact

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