War and Your Wallet

Volume one

War and
Your Wallet

2026

How 2026's conflicts moved oil, gold and the price of everything you buy

Peter Glancy

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Out 1 November 2026  ·  Paperback and Kindle

Cover of War and Your Wallet 2026 by Peter Glancy: a petrol station price sign at night showing unleaded at 174.7 and diesel at 200.0

The book

Unleaded174.7Diesel200.0

Pence per litre, UK average, 2 October 2026. Source: RAC Fuel Watch.

On 2 October 2026, diesel in Britain passed £2 a litre for the first time. The trouble had begun seven months earlier, in a strip of sea most people had never heard of.

When the United States and Israel struck Iran on 28 February, traffic through the Strait of Hormuz fell from about 68 ships a day to three. Oil nearly doubled in price, fell back, then nearly doubled again. Your fuel, your flights, your mortgage and your energy bill followed, each on its own delay. Some of the bill still hasn't arrived.

War and Your Wallet 2026 follows the money from the battlefield to your kitchen table. It is written in plain English, with every figure sourced and side-by-side panels for readers in Britain and America.

From the book

Brent crude, daily

US dollars a barrel, January to 6 October 2026

Brent crude oil price, daily, January to early October 2026 Brent traded between about 61 and 73 dollars a barrel before the strikes on Iran on 28 February, reached 138.21 dollars on 7 April, fell back to about 69 dollars in early July, then rose again to about 125 dollars by early October. 406080100120140160JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOct 28 Feb: strikes on Iran $/bbl

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Crude Oil Prices: Brent - Europe [DCOILBRENTEU], retrieved from FRED, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, October 2026. Public-domain data; chart drawn for this site.

Contents

Eleven chapters, in the order the costs arrived

  1. Introduction: how a war far away ends up in your shopping basketFrom a strait in the Gulf to a forecourt in Britain.
  2. The year at a glance: January to OctoberThe ten months that moved prices, in order.
  3. Fuel at the pumpHow a closed strait raised the price of diesel within a week.
  4. Ships, routes and the cost of moving thingsWhat happens to prices when the sea lanes close.
  5. Flights, holidays and getting awayJet fuel, airfares and the cost of getting away.
  6. Energy billsWhy bills didn't fall when the war paused.
  7. Inflation, interest rates and your mortgageWhy mortgage rates rose before the Bank of England had moved.
  8. Food on the tableThe slow road from fertiliser and grain to the supermarket shelf.
  9. Pensions, savings and the marketsWhat the year did to savings, pensions and the stock market.
  10. Gold and safe havensWhy gold, the classic safe haven, didn't behave like one.
  11. What to watch in 2027What to watch next year, and how to read the next headline yourself.

Also inside: a profile of each of the year's conflicts, a glossary, and full notes and sources.

Formats

Paperback and Kindle

Paperback

£11.99  /  $14.99

6 x 9 inches, cream paper, black and white charts and maps.

Kindle

£4.99  /  $5.99

Kindle eBook from Amazon.

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About the author

Peter Glancy has traded shares and commodity contracts for more than fifteen years. He writes a daily chart of the markets on LinkedIn.