Grenfell: inquest or public inquiry?

[wulbert]

Read this and weep, then get angry and demand action https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1534150928231800838.html

My God! How could "professionals" be so cynical and morally corrupt? It must be endemic in their practice.

I remember, around 2015, when building a small, timber garden building, trying to find out if Kingspan was combustible or not. You'd think that would have been be a simple question to answer, but no, hours of finding and pouring over data sheets and product descriptors did not tell me what I needed to know.

"Doing away with Red Tape!" is a nod and wink to these types of people to do whatever they want in order to turn a profit.

 

[Finnegan]

Read this and weep, then get angry and demand action https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1534150928231800838.html

I was going to say absolutely shocking, but why should we be shocked that these specimens put profit before safety? So it’s stomach churning rather than shocking. Every time a Tory opens their gob and comes out with the “creating conditions for investment, cutting through red tape, value for money etc” remember, this is the logical end point of their creed.

 

[droodzilla]

All's well that ends well:

https://www.newsweek.com/attacked-politician-psychedelic-therapy-1819508

I was the deputy leader of the council at the time of the fire, and I lived close enough to witness the tragedy unfold in real time, a cataclysmic event that still haunts me.
...
The trauma of Grenfell was an earthquake that upended my life. Yet it led me to a form of healing that I would not have considered otherwise. Psychedelics, it turns out, are not merely an avenue for escape or a remnant of rebellious youth. For me, they became a path toward recovery, acceptance, and a new beginning.

Oh, by the way...

Rock Feilding-Mellen is an entrepreneur, investor, and one of the co-founders of Beckley Waves, a venture studio explicitly formed to build and invest in a thriving psychedelic ecosystem to advance mental health and human flourishing.

An inspiring story of triumph over despair, I'm sure you'll agree.

 

[hifinutt]

grenfell happening again in Spain , tragic

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-europe-68378338

According to experts quoted by local media, highly flammable cladding on the building allowed the fire to spread rapidly.

Esther Puchades, who is the vice president of the College of Industrial Technical Engineers of Valencia, tells Spanish news agency Efe that she had previously inspected the building.

The building's exterior, Puchades explains, featured a polyurethane material that is no longer in wide use due to fears over flammability. It also has an aluminium covering.

"The reason the [building] burned so fast is because of this type of cladding," she adds.

The cladding has been described by experts as effective for heat insulation but the ventilation, or gap, between it and the covering means it can be highly flammable.