{"id":96522,"date":"2026-10-24T07:20:37","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T06:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=96522"},"modified":"2026-10-24T07:21:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T06:21:13","slug":"the-crises-facing-us-are-developing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/10\/24\/the-crises-facing-us-are-developing\/","title":{"rendered":"The crises facing us are developing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What does a crisis look like? This:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-96523\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Screenshot-2026-10-23-at-18.29.15-550x352.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"352\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Screenshot-2026-10-23-at-18.29.15-550x352.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Screenshot-2026-10-23-at-18.29.15-469x300.png 469w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Screenshot-2026-10-23-at-18.29.15-768x492.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Screenshot-2026-10-23-at-18.29.15-600x384.png 600w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Screenshot-2026-10-23-at-18.29.15.png 1362w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>That's the chart of the benchmark Brent crude oil price over the last 6 months, and it is heading sharply upward again.<\/p>\n<p>That is not surprising. Trump and Netanyahu are threatening to escalate their war with Iran. We are all going to pay the price.<\/p>\n<p>The crises facing us are developing.<\/p>\n<p>The question is, has John Healey noticed?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What does a crisis look like? This: That&#8217;s the chart of the benchmark Brent crude oil price over the last 6 months, and it is<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/10\/24\/the-crises-facing-us-are-developing\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127,204,35,118,174,224,106,223],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-budget","category-economic-justice","category-economics","category-labour","category-modern-monetary-theory","category-neoliberalism","category-politics","category-politics-of-care"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96524,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96522\/revisions\/96524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}