On Grenfell Tower: Or, why everything about this is political. In the wake of tragedies, such as the Grenfell Tower Fire, there will be inevitably be people demanding that it not be politicised. Or, to put it a different way, those who claim that by asking questions about how something happened, asking what the conditions that preceded the event where and then to make the point that had certain conditions not existed the tragedy would not have taken place, is to make illegitimate political capital off of the backs of victims of the event in question. It is difficult to think of a circumstance where this view would ever be correct. A terrorist attack is a political event, a flood that destroys homes is a political event, and a fire in a high rise flat in a working class area is unquestionably a political event - especially if as it appears that fire was an avoidable result of deliberate policies persued. As well as a result of the lack of representation that the residents of th...