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Published in: openDemocracyUKYoung people are the unsung heroes of Grenfell
Meet some of the extraordinary young people bringing life to the Grenfell community.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKTwo neoliberal infernos: Grenfell, and Piper Alpha 30 years on
Profit-before-safety, warnings ignored, 239 people dead. Britain’s oil bonanza and London’s gentrification have much...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKWhy Brexit won’t work: the EU is about regulation not sovereignty
Brexiteers like Boris Johnson inhabit an outdated form of sovereignty. A new realm of power - regulation - demands...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKWas a Tory PR firm behind a smear campaign against Grenfell’s MP?
A PR firm run by a former Downing Street staffer claimed to be behind a series of media attacks on Labour MP for...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKAmnesty, not apology
In a free and fair society, amnesty for all migrants stuck within yet excluded from our dysfunctional system, is the...
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Published in: Shine A LightHousing activists stand up to dodgy landlords and council bullies
The Grenfell tower fire forced a public debate on housing inequality in London. Tenants have long been at the mercy...
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Published in: Shine A LightHow housing activists are challenging town hall decisions
Using direct action, housing activists challenge unfeeling and harsh local authority decisionmaking
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Published in: openDemocracyUK“Developers can get away with murder” – an interview with Kensington’s Emma Dent Coad
One short week in May exposed the fault lines at the heart of our communities. Three months on from a shock election...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKWords of fire
The language of resistance is resourceful, creative and deep. After Grenfell, the words of those affected ring out...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKGrenfell tower and the people without capital
Contempt for Grenfell residents is representative of the way the city of London treats its global working-class....
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Published in: openJusticeThe terrible consequences of deregulation and cutting corners
After Grenfell, it’s time for the government to urgently rethink its attitude to regulation.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKFires disproportionately kill vulnerable people, and Grenfell is no different
We need more than just fire safety; we need fire justice, and a culture which takes stock of the fact that it is the...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKBurnt Alive, Grenfell Tower is watching us
A high-rise of death - that seems alive and watching us. A photo-essay.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKWhere are the missing? How the tabloids underplayed deaths at Grenfell for their own gain
The British press claim they don't want to speculate on numbers until they have an official body count. That’s...
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Published in: HomeJuvenal on Grenfell Tower
Satire III : 190 - 231, from The Satires, written in the early second century AD.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe religion of property is to blame for the deaths of those at Grenfell
Politicians have been playing Monopoly with people's lives, and Grenfell is the tragic result.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe Grenfell Inferno
The meaning of Grenfell was immediately understood. It was a hecatomb to neoliberalism, a public sacrifice to the...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKOne law for the poor at Grenfell Tower
In austerity Britain, can justice and accountability be served for the victims of the Grenfell fire? Or are our laws...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKTheresa May has prioritised the rights of absentee landlords over the Grenfell victims
Objections to the requisitioning of empty properties have nothing to do with fears of state coercion. Instead, it's...
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Published in: ourBeebAt Grenfell, a lack of accountability was deliberate – and residents were treated with contempt
Why should people have to put up with so little control over their living conditions? Why should they have to put up...