Grenfell Tower and the social divide: If this doesn’t make you angry, what’s wrong with you?
On the day we heard Channel 4 News anchor Jon Snow admit he felt he was on the wrong side of the social divide while reporting on the Grenfell Tower fire, we learn that former residents of the tower are still – still – being ill-treated by the authorities.
Mr Snow, delivering the MacTaggart lecture at the Edinburgh Television Festival, spoke movingly about one of the victims – 12-year-old Firdaws Hashim, who had won a school public debating competition of which he was a judge just weeks before the disaster – and others who had lost their lives, along with those who had warned that a disaster was likely, before it took place:
This is an incredibly moving and refreshingly honest speech from Jon Snow about Grenfell. Really worth watching. pic.twitter.com/Nnf6EpAtdS
— Rachael Swindon (@Rachael_Swindon) August 24, 2017
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