Still standing: Grenfell Tower a week after the inferno killed 72 of its London residents in June 2017The images of Grenfell Tower we saw when the Inquiry chairman recently published his coruscating report into the tragic fate of its residents prompt serious questions as we remember what happened when three much bigger World Trade Center (WTC) buildings in New York City disintegrated in seconds...
How many times have we heard the vapid ‘thoughts and prayers’, ‘our hearts and thoughts go out’ and ‘lessons will be learned’ between the revelation of one scandalous tragedy and the emergence of the next?
In the week when would-be Tory successors to Boris Johnson speak of the urgent need for integrity and truth telling, the Dean of Durham used his Cathedral platform at Saturday’s Miners’ Festival Service to put those qualities in powerful historical perspective. The ground for the sermon to the packed congregation by the Very Reverend Andrew Tremlett had been well prepared by the vibrant playing...
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