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WORTHY as Dame Judith Hackitt’s interim conclusions on the Grenfell fire tragedy are, it will take more than a “culture shift” to stop such crimes happening again.
Hackitt argues that regulatory changes will “not be sufficient unless we can change the culture away from one of doing the minimum required for compliance to one of taking ownership and responsibility.”
There are echoes here of Nick Clegg’s plea to bankers to remember they didn’t live in a “social vacuum” but were part of society, of David Cameron’s injunction to Starbucks to “wake up and smell the coffee” on tax avoidance and of Ed Miliband’s dream of a “responsible capitalism.”
YVETTE WILLIAMS and JOE DELANEY dissect the institutional dawdling that rubbed salt into the Grenfell open wounds prolonging the agony of survivors
Outsourcing is at the heart of inequality. Only collective unity in the trade union movement can topple the Establishment’s obsession with it, says SAM GURNEY
As we approach the half-anniversary of the Grenfell tragedy, the community gathers to remember loved ones while grappling with mixed emotions surrounding the ongoing deconstruction of the tower and the hopeful plans for a memorial, writes EMMA DENT COAD
Organised workers at the notoriously anti-union global giant are scoring victory after victory, and now international bodies are pitching in to finally force this figurehead of corporate capitalism to give in to unionisation, writes EMILIO AVELAR