On this story all week as bbc editor and hejoins on this story all week as bbc editor and he joins me on this story all week as bbc editor and hejoins me now. Has it been awkward . Not particularly, not particulalry. Maybe i have a advantage in that i have not in here that long s0 i have not in here that long sol i have not in here that long so i havent become best friends with various of the people i was reporting on. You are talking about people like huw edwards you are goingto end up working with but you just try very, very hard. You come across try very, very hard. You come across a try very, very hard. You come across a lot of awkward situations in journalism and you try very, very hard to think how would i cover this if it was another organisation, if it wasnt the bbc, and you try and go straight down the line. You come from newspapers, the independant in particular, has it affected how you view the row over bbc pay . I dont think it has affected how i view the row. Basically i a
its world wide, it is not just here in britain. betweenjuly and september, shell s underlying profit was £8.2 billion, that compares £3.6 billion in the same period last year. so far this year, the energy giant has made £26 billion this year. families will find this obsene. they are really struggling. they are considering, how do we turn off the heating? how do we keep a roof over our children s heads and food on the tables this winter? that is why the government has to act. no more excuses, impose a higher windfall tax. when he was chancellor, rishi sunak introduced a 25% extra windfall tax on extraordinary profits, on top of the 40% tax oil and gas companies already pay on their uk operations. but some say these profits are so excessive that further taxes are now justified. companies like this do not always make this kind of money. there are plenty of lean periods, too. and wholesale prices have already come down from their high this year. shell has said it will invest
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