This essay, on the shallowness of public debates about social tragedies, was my Observer column this week. It was published on 3 November 2019, under the headline ‘From Grenfell to migrant deaths, we fail to see the deeper causes of tragedy’ The 72 people killed in the Grenfell Tower fire. The 39 migrants who died in a shipping container left in a car park in Purfleet, Essex. Little may seem to connect these two dreadful events except the sense of horror we […]

Categories: Britain, Justice & Liberties, Philosophy & Ethics, Politics • Tags: dany contton, eh carr, fbu, firefighters, flammable cladding, grenfell tower, hein de haas, human traffickers, immigration controls, matt wrack, migrant deaths, people smugglers, purfleet, social tragedies