June 14, 2017, will always haunt me. The anniversary is a reminder of my friend Khadija Saye and the 71 others who died in the Grenfell Tower fire. The memory of being woken up in the early hours by concerned messages and calls, alongside harrowing images on social media, will never leave me.
This wasn’t a tragedy that affected everyone equally — 85 per cent of the victims were from ethnic minority backgrounds. One in five were disabled or vulnerable. The ruin of Grenfell unveiled a fractured society, revealing the shattered bonds that are meant to hold our social fabric together.
