Shell faces backlash as profits rise 70% on back of war

Shell has revealed a 70% lift in half-year profits to $16.75bn (£12.6bn), prompting a long-standing critic to claim they were "running out of words to describe the obscenity" of the numbers.

Shell's profits for the second quarter of the year have more than doubled after the Iran war pushed up oil prices.

Disruption to global supplies of oil and liquid natural gas through the Strait of Hormuz has pushed up prices.