Grenfell was not a state ‘failure’ – it was institutional violence
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par Victoria Cooper, Lecturer in Social Policy and Criminology, The Open University
David Whyte, Professor of Climate Justice, Queen Mary University of London
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 report lays out how routine decision-making by private construction companies and local authorities prioritised their own immediate economic benefit, in ways that knowingly produced an imminent threat to safety.
To prevent future tragedies…
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vendredi 6 septembre 2024
