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What the Grenfell report gets wrong – structural racism is evident in access to safe social housing

The damning final report from the Grenfell inquiry lays bare the failings that led to the deadly fire. It has been rightly praised for highlighting the “systematic dishonesty” of companies, decades of government failure and the tenant management organisation’s culture of hostility towards residents.

The Conversation

Building regulations still need 'more teeth' post Grenfell, London fire chief warns

The blaze in Dagenham proved that regulations still need strengthening, London fire commissioner Andy Roe says

Evening Standard

Grenfell inquiry has shone a light on architecture profession’s flaws

Letters: Kerr Robertson and Catherine Brownell on the structural defects in the training and fees of architects

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Avoiding man-made disasters like Grenfell could be helped by holding executives more accountable

All of the 72 deaths caused by the fire at Grenfell Tower in 2017 were avoidable. The same could be said of the 346 people who died in two separate Boeing 737 MAX crashes in 2018 and 2019. And the the 47 people killed in 2013 by a train derailment…

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Irish golfer Shane Lowry ends Kingspan sponsorship deal after Grenfell report

The Offaly man had come under pressure to end the deal with the Irish building materials company since the Grenfell Tower tragedy in June 2017.

The Independent UK

Why the BBC making one journalist redundant matters – for our media and democracy

Kate Lamble’s reporting on Grenfell was public service journalism at its best. But sweeping cuts will make it far harder to replicate, says Guardian columnist Jane Martinson

The Guardian - UK

Grenfell brought back memories of Summerland fire

Letter: Deborah Gahan remembers a fire on the Isle of Man in 1973 and says the Grenfell Tower inquiry shows how little has changed

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Michael Gove claims Treasury blocked his efforts to punish Grenfell cladding firms

‘The task now falls to others to secure the justice I sought but failed to bring,’ Michael Gove says

The Independent UK

We the survivors and bereaved of Grenfell cannot sleep easy even now. Too many others are still at risk

Change is happening too slowly. The contempt that killed our loved ones has killed before, and it will kill again says Natasha Elcock, chair of Grenfell United

The Guardian - UK

The Grenfell report is a blueprint for an overhaul of our dysfunctional state

An obsession with austerity over all other concerns can not be allowed to happen again

The Guardian - UK

Grenfell survivors furious over David Cameron’s claim that inquiry backed him over red-tape drive

Ex-PM is accused of ‘total bullshit’ for saying inquiry agreed that fire regulations were excluded from government push

The Guardian - UK

The Observer view on the Grenfell Tower inquiry: the state must pay the price for safe regulation

As the report damns corporate greed for contributing to the 72 deaths, Keir Starmer should ignore financial prudence when it comes to preventing another tragedy

The Guardian - UK

Grenfell building firm criticised by inquiry handed contracts worth millions after fire

Rydon, lead contractor on the tower’s refurbishment, won deals from councils and the NHS despite pressure to ban it from bids

The Guardian - UK

The people of Grenfell knew the truth before the fire. It’s we who must learn from them now

The inquiry’s report has increased the anger, not least of a younger generation that wants justice and won’t be silent, says playwright Gillian Slovo

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Robert Jenrick’s heartlessness can’t be glossed over

Brief letters: Tory leadership race | Grenfell inquiry | Knotting shoelaces | Margaret Thatcher’s portrait

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Do public inquiries work? What comes after Grenfell and other UK disasters

People involved in some of the UK’s highest-profile recent inquiries discuss what they achieved and what was left undone

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Tony Blair told to ‘take responsibility’ after Grenfell criticism

Campaigners call for apology after inquiry report makes several criticisms of decisions made during Blair’s tenure

The Conversation

Grenfell report: the risk of holding everyone to account is no one actually gets the blame

Former prime minister Theresa May announced a public inquiry into the Grenfell fire just 24 hours after the tragedy in June 2017. That the project was set in motion while emergency services were still at the scene underlined a broad sense of shock and disbelief that a catastrophe of such…

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The Conversation

Grenfell was not a state ‘failure’ – it was institutional violence

People are not used to thinking of decisions made in boardrooms or by housing authorities as “violent”. Yet the findings of the public inquiry into the Grenfell Tower fire show how they can be.

The Guardian - UK

Eric Pickles urged to quit as Tory peer over Grenfell inquiry criticism

Emma Dent Coad, who was Kensington MP at time of fire, says former housing secretary should ‘have grace to resign’

The Independent UK

Pressure builds on police to speed up Grenfell fire probe – and bring manslaughter charges

Exclusive: MPs urge police to speed up Grenfell investigation – but Met insists ‘we only have one chance to get this right’

The Guardian - UK

The three Grenfell Tower companies still denying all wrongdoing

What the official inquiry found about Arconic, Kingspan and Celotex – and their unapologetic response

The Guardian - UK

Justice for Grenfell deaths may not come this decade, warns former chief prosecutor

Lord Macdonald warns of likely delays in criminal justice system as survivors denounce ‘arrogant’ building firms

The Guardian - UK

Grenfell: profit was put ahead of people’s lives

Letters: Readers respond to the final Grenfell inquiry report, which paints a disturbing picture of failures in the construction industry and government

The Conversation

Grenfell inquiry: how the privatisation of building safety testing led to this tragedy

The public inquiry into the fire at Grenfell Tower has concluded that the tragedy was the result of “decades of failure” by government and other bodies to effectively regulate the safety of high-risk residential buildings.

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