He also claimed the UK will play its "full part" in getting the Strait of Hormuz open. With what Navy? His defence secretary resigned last week because there is no money.

A small public service announcement from the Department of Things That You Should Know… It has not “peeked” your interest. Nor has it “peaked” your interest. …It has piqued your interest. You are not “phased” by something. You are fazed by it. If you’ve had a long day, you are weary. If you suspect someone is an idiot, you are wary. It is “due course”, not “do course”. “Per se”, not “per say”. And while we’re here, it’s “could have”, not “could of”, but that particular battle may already be lost. Thank you for your attention during this brief outbreak of grammatical housekeeping. This has been a @LairdofthManor announcement.🎩💙

This is WILD! Tom Mueller. SpaceX employee #1, the man who built the engines and his 0.06% stake is now worth approximately $1.11 billion (Save this). But the number undersells the story. Mueller grew up in St. Maries, Idaho, population 2,500, the son of a logger who wanted him to follow the same path. He spent four summers cutting timber to pay his way through engineering school, then moved to California with nothing but a degree and a passion for rockets. He spent 15 years at TRW, one of the biggest aerospace companies in the world, watching his ideas get diluted inside a bureaucracy so he started building engines in his garage at night as a hobby. By early 2002 he had built the largest amateur liquid-fuel rocket engine in the world, 80 pounds, 13,000 lbs of thrust and moved it to a friend's warehouse. That's where @elonmusk found him. Fresh from selling PayPal for $1.5 billion, Musk walked into that warehouse and asked one question: "Can you build something bigger?" Mueller never fired that original engine, he took it back to his garage, where it still sits today. Instead, he joined Musk on May 1, 2002 becoming employee #1 on the SpaceX payroll. What followed was 18 years of building what became the most reliable rocket engine ever flown. The Merlin engine, designed from scratch powered Falcon 1, Falcon 9, and Dragon. The Merlin 1D holds the thrust to weight record for production rocket engines and it enabled the first ever propulsive landing of an orbital rocket booster, which is what made reusability possible, which is what made cheap access to space possible, which is what made Starlink possible, which is what made today's $2.1 trillion IPO possible. Mueller also started the early development of what became the Raptor engine, the full flow staged combustion methane engine that powers Starship, which no American aerospace company had ever successfully built before. He retired from SpaceX in November 2020 but he got bored within six months so he founded Impulse Space, building space tugs to move payloads around once they're in orbit, and planetary landers to deliver cargo to Mars. What an incredible story!