by The Editor | Jun 19, 2017 | Politics
Like others I have experienced a range of emotions following the Grenfell Tower fire in West London. A cursory glance at mainstream, alternative and social media highlights the grief, the sadness, the rage but also the love and care for others the catastrophe has...
by The Editor | Jun 17, 2017 | Politics
“Before you can start building [houses] on any scale, every single industry in society has got to be organised and stimulated into production.” – Aneurin Bevan, 1946. The inferno at Grenfell Tower has claimed many lives (as I write, the official estimate for people...
by The Editor | Jun 17, 2017 | Politics
Austerity kills. No greater proof of this fact exists than that we are watching unfold around the burnt out husk of Grenfell tower in Kensington, London. This was no accident. It was cold and calculated murder. Austerity is a spectator sport. Television has...
by The Editor | Jun 17, 2017 | Politics
The Grenfell Tower tragedy was NOT an accident. Health & safety was DELIBERATELY IGNORED to save money. And ignoring health and safety at Grenfell was not a one-off case. Since they came to power, the Tories and their friends in the right-wing tabloids have...
by The Editor | Jun 17, 2017 | Politics
It’s a fact that wealth disparity in the borough of Kensington is amongst the most acute in Britain. For those trapped in poverty there it was considered to be among the top 10% of most deprived areas in the country. However something stood out to me as we watched the...
