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Kenan Malik

A tale of two tower block fires: in Milan, nine convicted – at Grenfell, we’re still waiting

The Metropolitan police has more than 70 files on the 2017 London disaster, but the Crown Prosecution Service won’t even see them until September

Sun 24 May 2026

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