Senior property writer investigating the building safety scandal, housing & sustainability @thesundaytimes @thetimes [email protected]
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The hardest and most important article I have written in 20 years of journalism: Five years ago on Tuesday, 72 people died at #Grenfell. Over 10 pages, this is the definitive account of the disaster - and the lies, cover-ups and mistakes that led to it thetimes.co.uk/article/corne…
The Sunday Times is free to read this weekend only. Here are my top stories from our award-winning campaign for justice in the cladding scandal thetimes.com/article/corner-…
Well this took me a few months to investigate: since Grenfell, 15,210 residents have been forced to move out of dangerous flats across Britain, analysis of 7 years’ local media reports found thetimes.co.uk/article/force…
6 years after Grenfell and 1 year after the law changed to make companies pay, 91% of fire-risk flats are not yet fixed, leaving well over 600,000 people in danger thetimes.co.uk/article/cladd…
Our Sunday Times scorecard for how much responsibility each sector has taken to end the scandal of fire risk flats:
Cladding manufacturers 1/10
Freeholders 3/10
Developers 6/10
Government 6/10
Lenders 4/10
thetimes.co.uk/article/cladd…
This is the Sunday Times & @EOCS_Official 5-step plan to end the scandal: thetimes.co.uk/article/cladd…
This is a month long investigation in which we found evidence to make cladding companies repay millions of taxpayers money spent to strip products about which manufacturers made false claims
thetimes.co.uk/article/f2379…
This is a big moment for the Grenfell families and >4m affected by the fallout: Michael Gove admits the government shares the blame for #Grenfell and the building safety scandal it exposed - My p1 with @HarryYorke1 🧵thetimes.co.uk/article/micha…
And he apologised to those who have had their "lives frozen" in unsafe and unsellable flats: “The pain, the sense of disorientation that those people have had, is something for which I’m deeply sorry”
This explains why the guidance was wrong - it could (and did) basically clear (non-flammable) foil stuck onto dynamite to wrap tall buildings thetimes.co.uk/article/corne…