After Grenfell, local UK governments pay the developers who chose lethal cladding to replace it
by Cory Doctorow from on (#3BAYJ)
In the wake of the Grenfell Tower disaster (in which a building full of poor people were roasted alive because their homes had been skinned with a highly flammable decorative element that was supposed to make it easier to look at from a nearby luxury neighborhood), local UK governments have scrambled to replace the deadly cladding on other buildings with something a little less fiery. (more")