GUY ADAMS investigates whether BP has a death wish: First the once-great British oil giant declared war on fossil fuels – before a humiliating U-turn. Now it’s fired the straight talking chairman brought in to fix the mess

Just off Pall Mall, on a leafy Georgian square occupied by some of London‘s smartest gentlemen’s clubs, is the global headquarters of BP, a company which once put the ‘great’ in Great Britain.

For much of its 118-year history, this world-famous energy giant has helped keep the UK’s lights on, supplying our Armed Forces with fuel during two world wars and discovering the North Sea oil that ushered in an economic boom during the 1980s.

With operations that spanned seven continents, it could at one point claim to be the country’s single most valuable business. 

Thanks to BP, generations of British pensioners (whose

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