BP profits more than doubling as a result of the Iran war makes us all cross. It’s why Labour was right to tax windfall energy profits. Despite pressure from some, we continue to do so. But this illustrates something bigger. Each time an economic crisis comes along some profit from, and exploit, the situation while everyone else pays the price. In the global financial crisis in 2008, we bailed out the banks but ordinary people paid with austerity. During Covid, a few benefited from the VIP fast

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