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Why have we let side-hustle private landlords seize control of our housing – and our politics?

Failed Thatcherite policy monetised complex housing needs. No wonder those who benefit are loth to change it, says Peter Apps, a contributing editor at Inside Housing

The Guardian - UK

‘I don’t want my brother to just be a number’: How Netflix’s powerful Grenfell film sheds new light on the tragedy

IN FOCUS: As Netflix releases a powerful new documentary about the blaze that took 72 lives at Grenfell Tower in 2017, Hannah J Davies speaks to a man who lost a close relative in the fire, as well as the film’s director and a journalist who’s spent years reporting on…

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Campaign catchup: Fake figures, stealth taxes and a speeding Lib Dem

In today’s newsletter: The day after Sunak’s dubious £2,000 tax bomb, debate punditry is getting out of control

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When I look back on 14 years of Tory rule, there is one awful housing policy that stands out

Holding down benefit rates has sent homelessness soaring and led to an exodus of poorer people from our cities, says Inside Housing editor Peter Apps

The Guardian - UK

Our lack of affordable, safe housing is a national crisis. Here are three things Labour can do to fix it

If it gets to No 10, the party should fund a social housing boom, tackle homelessness – and usher in a post-Grenfell era of safety, says author Peter Apps

The Guardian - UK

Affordable housebuilding in London is set to collapse by 75%. That’s a problem wherever you live

A huge grant cut imposed by George Osborne in 2010 is hitting hardest in the capital but will soon be disastrous elsewhere, says the author Peter Apps

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Five of the best books about the UK housing crisis

From costs to quality, housing can make you despair. Our best five books explain the politics behind the problems – and the solutions

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What makes a very British miscarriage of justice? Contempt for the ‘little people’

Windrush, Grenfell, the Post Office – all reveal who gets listened to and who gets ignored

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Orwell Prizes 2023 won by first-time authors Tom Crewe and Peter Apps

The two first-time authors collected the prestigious gongs for their ‘magnificent’ political books

Evening Standard

Two debut books win Orwell prizes for political writing

Peter Apps’ magnificent account of the Grenfell fire tragedy and Tom Crewe’s historical novel about pioneering Victorian gay rights advocates will each receive £3,000

The Guardian - UK

This stark vision of Grenfell reveals so much about the elite that really rules us

Steve McQueen’s wordless film reminds us of the silence now surrounding the scandal

The Guardian - UK

Grenfell showed exactly why we need red tape, yet the Tories are desperate to bin thousands of laws

As parliament debates sweeping away EU rules, MPs should remember that deregulation paved the way to the deadly fire in 2017, says author Peter Apps

The Guardian - UK

Comment: ‘We’re all at risk if we ignore important lessons from Grenfell’

A jaw-dropping new book details the failures at every level that culminated in the Grenfell tragedy. It also lays bare how little has been done to make the system safer

Evening Standard

Show Me the Bodies: How We Let Grenfell Happen by Peter Apps review – a devastating account of failure

This meticulous study shows that the disaster was rooted in contempt by people in power for those without it

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Show Me the Bodies: How We Let Grenfell Happen review – damning account of deregulation

In writing that is clear and moving, Peter Apps shows how decades of rhetoric against ‘red tape’ set the scene for the fire that killed 72 people – and how some lessons have yet to be learned

The Guardian - UK

Worship the rich, neglect the poor? Adam Smith’s words still capture how power works

A law introducing state-sanctioned strike breaking is the latest sign that regulation only applies to workers. For business interests, anything goes

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