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I’ACCUSE...! A comment left among tributes close to Grenfell Tower in west London the day after a fire engulfed the 24-storey building
Features / 23 May 2026
23 May 2026

YVETTE WILLIAMS and JOE DELANEY dissect the institutional dawdling that rubbed salt into the Grenfell open wounds prolonging the agony of survivors

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Book Review / 7 September 2025
7 September 2025

MARJORIE MAYO is moved by the clarity with which the FBU call out the true causes of this preventable tragedy

Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner in the new Janet Harvey
Britain / 9 February 2025
9 February 2025
Matt Wrack, General Secretary of the Fire Brigades Union, sp
Labour Conference 2024 / 25 September 2024
25 September 2024
MATT WRACK outlines the FBU’s motion to the Labour Party conference, urging an overhaul of safety regulations, an end to privatisation, and preparation for the extreme weather events threatening public safety
The Grenfell Memorial Wall in west London, September 3, 2024
Features / 6 September 2024
6 September 2024
SOLOMON HUGHES exposes how executives behind lethal cladding have pocketed £302 million since the tragedy, as Labour frontbenchers continue to schmooze at luxury conferences funded and organised by implicated firms
Smoke billows from a fire that engulfed the 24-storey Grenfe
Britain / 4 September 2024
4 September 2024
Inquiry finds fire the result of ‘decades of failure’ by the government and construction industry
Firefighters at the scene after a blaze at a block of flats
Britain / 27 August 2024
27 August 2024
Starmer slammed for ‘not say a word about the building safety crisis since he became prime minister’
REMEMBRANCE: A silent walk near Grenfell Tower, last year, c
Features / 14 June 2023
14 June 2023
While honouring the dead on the sixth anniversary of the tragedy, EMMA DENT COAD points out that developers continue to cut corners in safety provision
Features / 14 June 2023
14 June 2023
Talking to those living in the shadow of the tower, ANN CZERNIK finds a community betrayed, with inequality now worse than before the fire
SAFETY MATTERS: A silent walk near Grenfell Tower in London
Opinion / 13 June 2023
13 June 2023
Whistleblower and former civil servant TERRY EDGE warns that fire retardants used on British furniture, far from protecting the public and firefighters, are toxins causing a wide range of illnesses including cancer – and could be the next national scandal in the making
EXHAUSTED: Firefighters break from attending the burning tow
Features / 12 June 2023
12 June 2023
Matt Trinder talks to firefighter BARRY JACKSON about his call for routine health monitoring of the front-line workforce, which was overwhelmingly endorsed at the FBU conference last month after years of campaigning
People listen to a multi-faith and wreath laying ceremony at
Britain / 3 May 2023
3 May 2023
Campaigners furious after inquiry confirms final report is unlikely to be published until 2024
The Grenfell Memorial Wall in the grounds of Kensington Aldr
Britain / 12 April 2023
12 April 2023
Graffiti on the wall of Ulster Rugby Stadium in Belfast. Gra
Men’s Rugby Union / 3 January 2023
3 January 2023
JUSTICE DELAYED: On the fourth anniversary of the Grenfell T
BOOKS / 11 September 2022
11 September 2022
An eye-opening, breath-taking and damning indictment of the divisions that rend this country, writes GAVIN O’TOOLE
(L to R) A wall with the names of the victims of state terro
Opinion / 28 July 2022
28 July 2022
ANA SOUTO looks at the ideas and sentiments shaping the debate around the planned monument for the victims of the Grenfell fire
A batch of NHS leaflets issued by Grenfell Health and Wellbe
Britain / 13 June 2022
13 June 2022
Close to 1,500 children have been referred to the dedicated NHS Grenfell Health and Wellbeing service
A piece of green ribbon hangs from a railing in Silchester R
Features / 13 June 2022
13 June 2022
Kensington and Chelsea Council has turned a traumatised community into ‘beggars,’ divided and compelled to compete with each other for its dubious ‘help’ – all while congratulating itself on its own beneficence, writes EMMA DENT COAD
The Grenfell Memorial Wall in the grounds of Kensington Aldr
Features / 13 June 2022
13 June 2022
There is an acute sense of abandonment in North Kensington, where the worst post-war fire in Britain has left a legacy of distrust between residents and an uncaring local authority. ANN CZERNIK reports
Smoke billowing after a fire engulfed the 24-storey Grenfell
Grenfell Fire / 13 June 2022
13 June 2022
Culture / 3 June 2022
3 June 2022
BETHANY RIELLY is struck by a sensitive and powerful portrayal of a community's battle against callous institutions
Artist Tuesday Greenidge, founder of the Grenfell Memorial Q
Britain / 1 June 2022
1 June 2022
The collective won't stop sewing until it has reached the same size as the west London tower block
Grenfell Tower, covered in plastic sheeting
Britain / 13 April 2022
13 April 2022
Hisam Choucair lost his mother, sister, brother-in-law, two nieces and nephew in the blaze
People during a rally outside Kensington Town Hall in London
Editorial: / 9 March 2022
9 March 2022
Smoke billowing from the fire that engulfed the 24-storey Gr
Editorial: / 6 December 2021
6 December 2021
EXCELLENT: (L to R) Thomas Wheatley, Ron Cook and Clair Lams
Theatre / 20 October 2021
20 October 2021
The play is a powerful reminder of the arrogance, class hatred and professional incompetence that lead to tragedy of inimaginable scale, writes MARY CONWAY
People release balloons at the Grenfell Memorial Community M
Features / 25 September 2021
25 September 2021
Under current government policy, dangerous cladding removal resources are likely to be prioritised for private housing, with social housing residents forced to wait, writes MATT WRACK
Features / 15 September 2021
15 September 2021
The mental health crisis of those affected by the Grenfell disaster is still not being taken seriously, writes EMMA DENT COAD
A Palestine Action activist sprays Arconic’s factory in Bi
Britain / 14 June 2021
14 June 2021
Palestine Action activists target Arconic, the company that made the deadly cladding and helps to arm Israel
Smoke billows from the fire that engulfed the 24-storey Gren
Features / 14 June 2021
14 June 2021
Four years on from the tragic north Kensington fire, profit is still being prioritised over safety in the housing industry – meaning tragedy is likely to strike again, write HOWARD BECKETT and GAIL CARTMAIL of Unite
The Grenfell Memorial Wall in the grounds of Kensington Aldr
Features / 14 June 2021
14 June 2021
If there is no legal force behind inquiry recommendations, what is their purpose and whose interests do they serve, asks Justice4Grenfell campaign manager YVETTE WILLIAMS
Family and friends of the 72 people who lost their lives in
Features / 14 June 2021
14 June 2021
Four years on, and the battle for justice is still not won. But giving up is not an option, says former Kensington MP EMMA DENT COAD
Features / 7 April 2021
7 April 2021
ZITA HOLBOURNE explains how offensive omissions and distortions have led Black Activists Rising Against Cuts to reject the findings of the government commission on race disparities
‘BONKERS’- Labour’s David Lammy queried the Tories’
Britain / 7 December 2020
7 December 2020
An Urban Search and Rescue officer from London Fire Brigade
Britain / 19 October 2020
19 October 2020
Survivors' group says such ‘indifference never fails to shock and enrage’
People at the Grenfell Memorial Community Mosaic at the base
Editorial: / 14 June 2020
14 June 2020
Grenfell Tower
Britain / 2 March 2020
2 March 2020
Grenfell Inquiry delayed as protesters voice opposition to immunity for corporate witnesses
Britain / 1 March 2020
1 March 2020
Protesters outside the Grenfell Tower public inquiry in Lond
Britain / 27 January 2020
27 January 2020
Second phase of the inquiry hears companies showing ‘no trace of responsibility’ for the horrific London fire
Grenfell Tower in west London burns
Britain / 16 January 2020
16 January 2020
Former Labour MP Emma Dent Coad tells the Star that the PM has driven the ‘final nail in the coffin’ of justice
Former London fire commissioner Dany Cotton
Britain / 6 December 2019
6 December 2019
Jacob Rees-Mogg enters No 10
Editorial / 6 November 2019
6 November 2019
Boris Johnson walks through No 10 after dissolving Parliamen
General Election ’19 / 6 November 2019
6 November 2019
Tory MPs Alun Cairns, Jacob Rees-Mogg, Andrew Bridgen and candidate Francesca O’Brien have set the party on a disastrous course
Grenfell Tower in west London
Features / 28 October 2019
28 October 2019
DAVE GILLIAN responds to Doreen Lawrence who has suggested the firefighters' response to Grenfell was affected by racism
Britain / 14 October 2019
14 October 2019
Smoke damage at Markland House after a fire broke out at the
Britain / 23 August 2019
23 August 2019
London fire commissioner Dany Cotton in 2018
Britain / 20 June 2019
20 June 2019
Campaign group Grenfell United said that it would not allow her to evade responsibility
Features / 17 June 2019
17 June 2019
From safety, to social housing, the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea has failed its residents. But housing campaigners are getting together and getting ready for action
Workers apply cladding to a building in the Nottingham City
Britain / 9 May 2019
9 May 2019
Tories stump up £200m to reclad private towers but many are left lacking support
Kensington MP Emma Dent Coad with the late Tony Benn
Interview / 1 May 2019
1 May 2019
The Socialist Campaign Group of Labour MPs launched Jeremy Corbyn’s successful leadership bid in 2015. Phil Miller talks to one of its newest members, EMMA DENT COAD, about her hopes for the future
Firefighters fight the blaze in Grenfell Tower, June 15 2017
Exclusive / 29 April 2019
29 April 2019
Labour's Emma Dent Coad tells the Star of the trauma inflicted on the community
Grenfell Tower (left) in west London is illuminated in green
Britain / 9 December 2018
9 December 2018
Kensington MP Emma Dent Coad says it's unacceptable that surviving families will ‘have another Christmas wondering whether they can afford to buy food’
Prime Minister Theresa May visits the scene near Grenfell To
Britain / 7 November 2018
7 November 2018
Labour MP Emma Dent Coad demands answers after a Times investigation revealed cladding experts were banned from ‘embarrassing’ the PM
The ruins of Grenfell Tower light up at night
Britain / 31 October 2018
31 October 2018
Median monthly rent for a two-bedroom flat in the borough is now £2,708, a GMB study reveals
The fire-gutted shell of Grenfell Tower
Britain / 30 October 2018
30 October 2018
Last year’s Budget granted £28m in government funds to help pay for mental-health and counselling services
The burnt out shell of Grenfell Tower
Britain / 5 September 2018
5 September 2018
Firefighters' union leader slams ‘complacency’ over risk warning following tragic blaze death in 1999
Britain / 4 September 2018
4 September 2018
Britain / 3 September 2018
3 September 2018
Features / 28 June 2018
28 June 2018
We recently marked a year since the Grenfell Tower tragedy. The response since the fire from the Conservative government and local council reads like a litany of failures, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP
People take part in a silent walk by Grenfell Tower, to mark
Britain / 18 June 2018
18 June 2018
SAM TOBIN reports from Holborn
Matt Wrack speaks at a protest in Westminster, London demand
Features / 8 June 2018
8 June 2018
Fire Brigades Union leader MATT WRACK talks to the Star about the Grenfell inquiry, the firefighters’ pay freeze and the changing role of technology
Britain / 30 May 2018
30 May 2018
The burnt remains of Grenfell tower
Health and Safety / 9 May 2018
9 May 2018
Features / 26 April 2018
26 April 2018
Professors PHIL JAMES, STEVE TOMBS, DAVID WALTERS and DAVID WHYTE single out five broader features of present deregulatory policy they argue need to be abandoned because of their damaging consequences for social protection
TUC Black Workers' Conference ’18 / 21 April 2018
21 April 2018
Tory Housing Secretary Sajid Javid
Housing / 22 March 2018
22 March 2018
Nine months on from the tragedy only 62 of the 204 households have been resettled
Housing Secretary Sajid Javid
Health and Safety / 15 March 2018
15 March 2018