*How to save [the UK's] precious public services? A windfall tax on those who got rich from Covid.*

Coping with Covid-19 is expensive, especially if you're not careful to spend money wisely. The UK spent a lot of money, much of it incompetently or corruptly.

In the minds of Tories, like other plutocratists, this is an opportunity to cut the support that keeps penurious people alive. They have been pushing for more than a decade to undermine and ruin the National Health Service, and they see success within their grasp.