Brexit or pandemic? What’s behind the UK petrol crunch
Al Jazeera
Queues at petrol pumps remain widespread in the United Kingdom on Wednesday.
Profanity is uncommon on the rarefied radio waves of the BBC, so any swear words on the network’s flagship news programme, Today on Radio 4, are sure to shock.
So it was perhaps inevitable that some colourful comments made during a segment on the United Kingdom’s petrol crunch this week would go viral.
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