The Architecture of Accountability

In September 2024, the Grenfell Tower Inquiry published its final report. It concluded that the building safety regime in England and Wales had been ‘seriously defective’ for decades. Seventy-two people died in a tower block whose cladding had been certified, inspected, and approved within a system that every responsible body believed was someone else’s job […]

The Myth of the Level Playing Field

In September 2024, the UK Social Mobility Commission published a new index mapping the prospects of young people aged 25 to 44 across 203 local authority areas. The findings were plain. A young person in the London commuter belt faced a fundamentally different set of chances from a young person in Hartlepool or Blackpool, and […]