Last week, myself and @facundoarriz visited a council flat in Holborn.
The tenant has been living in the space for 22 years – spending most of his time sitting on a dirty blanket with dozens of beer cans, coffee cups and pieces of soiled bedding strewn across the floor 🧵
'There were lots of empty seats....I was really quite shocked'
@Peston says he was surprised by how many MPs left the Commons before the prime minister's statement on the Grenfell Inquiry report.
Earlier this year, there was a block fire in Wembley.
I went days later and spoke to 30+ residents who said ‘fire alarms didn’t go off during the fire’.
Their building also had ‘unsafe cladding’ on it at the time.
Those telling us that we shouldn't point out the Leicester Square hero, Abdullah's race and religion are the same people that demanded to know the identity of the Southport killer.
This cognitive dissonance is a pandemic.
And yes we damn well will point it out.
A heroic man, Folajimi ‘Jimi’ Olubumni-Adewole who died trying to rescue a woman drowning in the Thames in 2021, has now had a set of council homes named after him. RIP 🙏🏾
We'll never forget the 52 people who were killed 19 years ago in the 7/7 bombings, including one of our colleagues, Lee Baisden.
We pay tribute to our firefighters and Control staff, as well as all emergency service crews who responded on that fateful day
The absolute state of this country.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, the treatment of disabled people by housing providers, including councils is beyond shameful. In many cases I’ve seen, it can only be described as wicked.
Harry Styles says he’s got a rare day off tomorrow so does anyone fancy joining him for a stroll around the abandoned remnants of the Mr Blobby theme park?