Annual Lecture 2022
Show Me the Bodies: How We Let Grenfell Happen and How We Can Stop it Happening Again
On 29 March 2023, the Human Rights Law Centre was delighted to have our Annual Lecture delivered by Peter Apps, Deputy Editor at Inside Housing.
As we approached the sixth anniversary of the Grenfell Tower fire, many questions about the broader circumstances surrounding one of the UK's deadliest structural fires remained (and still remain) unanswered. The disaster, its causes and impacts, have been roundly condemned as breaches of international human rights law but as yet there has been no meaningful accountability.
In his lecture, Peter discussed the fallout of the Grenfell Tower fire. He drew on his superb new book, ‘Show Me the Bodies: How We Let Grenfell Happen’, in which he exposes how a steady stream of deregulation, corporate greed and institutional indifference caused the tragedy, and left a grieving community forsaken by our government still waiting for change.
About the Speaker
Peter Apps is an award-winning journalist and Deputy Editor at Inside Housing. He broke a story on the dangers of combustible cladding thirty-four days before the Grenfell Fire. He has not stopped reporting on this national tragedy since, and his coverage of the public inquiry has received widespread acclaim. His book, Show Me The Bodies, describes the series of failures which led to the fire and has received positive reviews in The Observer, The Guardian, The Times, The Evening Standard, Prospect Magazine and several other outlets.