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David Lammy, MP for Tottenham, spoke out after the Grenfell Tower fire, and argued for the importance of 'bringing back the social.'
50th Anniversary Blog Series

No 6: Back to the future? Reclaiming the social after Grenfell Tower

November 22, 2017 S-P-A-Administrator Comments Off on No 6: Back to the future? Reclaiming the social after Grenfell Tower

by John Clarke The Grenfell Tower fire has shaken many aspects of the prevailing British political culture. Most strikingly for me, in the aftermath of the fire, Tottenham MP David Lammy gave an interview in […]

Fiona Willaims pays tribute to victims of terrorism and the Grenfell Tower fire with her poem As If.
50th Anniversary Blog Series

No 4: As if: After Manchester, London Bridge, Grenfell Tower

November 8, 2017 S-P-A-Administrator 0

by Fiona Williams   For weeks I’ve been grabbed by the throat: deep sobs that hijack the roll out of sleep, gasping for air as if those dying were mine as if the mums and […]

What can the field of social policy learn from the Grenfell Fire tragedy? Ruth Lister reflects in her presidential address to the Social Policy Association in July 2017.
50th Anniversary Blog Series

No 1: The power of hope in the face of injustice: reflections on Grenfell

October 16, 2017 S-P-A-Administrator 2

Address of Baroness Ruth Lister, Chair of the SPA, to our annual conference held at The University of Durham, July 2017. Four weeks prior to the Social Policy Association’s 50th anniversary AGM an unknown number […]

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