SHADOW OF GRENFELL
Funnily enough thoughts and prayers have not managed to yield justice for the lives that were lost at Grenfell Tower.
Yesterday marked four years since the block went up in flames, images across several hours that will live in my memory forever.
I will never be convinced that only 72 people died in that tower block, whatever the record might say.
Officials and politicians have been knee deep in back-covering exercises and legal gymnastics ever since.
So spare me the meaningless guff around the anniversary of the day that a community was failed utterly.
Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick shared a mealy-mouthed tweet on Sunday along with Kensington MP, Felicity Buchan.
They’d have been better served explaining where we are with the significant reform to UK building safety.
According to the Association of Residential Managing Agents, over half a million people live in buildings with some form of unsafe cladding. Where are the tweets addressing that?
We’ll wait.
I couldn’t care less whether Christian
Eriksen plays football again. I bet his partner Sabrina
– who thought he’d died on
Saturday – Everyone else agrees. can argue about the BBC coverage or whether been screened he’d the or jabbed until cows come home. All that matters is that the former Tottenham midfielder is still with us.