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:

And yet, how do we find out about the following?

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Through the social media.


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4 Comments

  1. NMac August 24, 2017 at 12:51 pm - Reply

    The Tory Party at its evil worst.

  2. Ann Ford August 24, 2017 at 1:14 pm - Reply

    These survivors were promised, by Mrs May herself, to be rehoused in weeks. I now see that she had no intention of keeping that promise.

  3. Roland Laycock August 24, 2017 at 4:39 pm - Reply

    The country is sick and the Tories are helping it on its way down hill divide and rule and the Tories appeal to the lowest of the low

  4. wildswimmerpete August 24, 2017 at 5:50 pm - Reply

    I’m still very concerned that money donated by the public is lining suit pockets rather than reaching those for whom it’s intended.

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