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How 40 Years of Deregulation Caused the Grenfell Tower Fire: A Slow-Motion Disaster
Before Grenfell: Fire, Safety and Deregulation in Twentieth-Century Britain
Think the Grenfell Tower fire was just a tragic accident caused by a faulty fridge? Think again. This video, based on historian Shane Ewen's groundbreaking book 'Before Grenfell: Fire, Safety and Deregulation in Twentieth-Century Britain', reveals the shocking truth: the fire was the inevitable result of 40 years of systematic government neglect and deregulation. We trace the timeline from the 1970s, when safety rules were slashed from 310 pages to just 24, to the privatization of fire testing labs that hid deadly material flaws for 16 years. Discover how political ideology, corporate profit, and cost-cutting turned a concrete tower into a death trap—and why the same failures are still happening today. This is not just a history lesson; it's a warning about the price of putting profit over lives.
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