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Show Me the Bodies: How We Let Grenfell Happen

Peter Apps

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Show Me the Bodies: How We Let Grenfell Happen

Show Me the Bodies won the Orwell Prize for Political Writing 2023. On 14 June 2017, a 24-storey block of flats went up in flames. The fire climbed up cladding as flammable as solid petrol. Fire doors failed to self-close. No alarm rang out to warn sleeping residents. As smoke seeped into their homes, all were told to 'stay put'. Many did – and they died. It was a tragedy decades in the making. Peter Apps meticulously exposes how a steady stream of deregulation, corporate greed and institutional indifference caused a tragedy. 72 people did not need to die, as the Grenfell Tower Inquiry makes clear. Here is the story of a grieving community forsaken by our government, a community still waiting for justice.

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Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Year
2022
ISBN-13
9780861545957
Genre
Politics & Current Affairs
Topics
Grenfell Tower fireGovernment negligence and deregulationSocial housing safety

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