Just a quick update on this morning's entry. I went to a meeting in Waterloo today (more on who I saw closer to the publication of the interview) and passed about five petrol stations. One had a sign up saying there was no diesel, another had queues three cars deep - while the radio was telling me all about the crisis and how people were queueing into residential streets, pushed into topping up and filling cans with petrol and not even getting tatty free glasses like we did in the seventies.
Far be it from me to say the whole thing's been exaggerated out of all proportion, and of course my sample might be unrepresentative. But it looked like the calmest panic I've ever seen, and I travelled a fair few miles.
