Sir David King writes:
Today, the rest of the world pours more than $2 trillion a year into the Gulf states, which is $6m per day.
That\’s $6 billion a day of course (well, it is if all we\’re going to worry about is those pesky orders of magnitude).
That the Government\’s former Chief Scientific Advisor is innumerate might explain some of the predicament we find ourselves in.
Perhaps they have longer years on Government Planet.
“That the Government’s former Chief Scientific Advisor is innumerate..”: well of course he is; he’s a chemist, not a physicist or engineer.