

Grenfell Tower was built in the neighbourhood I grew up in. By four o'clock that morning seventy residents had lost their lives. There was no general alarm system and as was normal in concrete blocks residents were told to stay put in their flats. There was one stairwell to handle residents trying to escape and firefighters trying to rescue them. The high temperature fire in the cladding then punched back thru into different floors, the smoke and toxic fumes confused and overwhelmed the automatic vent system. Within nineteen minutes fire had raced to the top of the Tower. The fire started in a fridge freezer on the fourth floor then found its way out by the window into the insulation layer of the newly fitted external cladding. The block was social housing, home for people from many troubled countries.Ī firm called Rydon had recently carried out a major re-furbishment on behalf of the owners, Kensington and Chelsea Borough Council. Reaching one hundred per cent physical limits and seeing the things I did has given me a level to measure later happenings in my life.Īt the end of the Muslim religious fast of Ramadan during the night of 13/14 June 2017, a blaze took hold of a twenty three storey block called Grenfell Tower in Notting Dale, West London. Articles taken from Draft Namespace on Wikipedia could be accessed on Wikipedia's Draft Namespace.On watching the Grenfell Tower Fire InquiryĪ text documentary by Matthew Hilton from transcriptsĪs a young man with a family to keep I did time in the Fire Service. The list of its authors can be seen in its historical. This article "Freddie Sayers" is from Wikipedia. ↑ "Ayaan Hirsi Ali: virtue signalling on immigration, BLM and MeToo is dangerous" – via.↑ "Politicians of Left and Right join forces to challenge lockdowns" – via.↑ "Cambridge tutor: don't force me to 'respect' your views" – via."The great Covid experiment - did Sweden beat us all?". "What sort of second referendum do you want? Vote now!" – via "Confirmed: Paul Waugh leaves Standard for PoliticsHome". ↑ "YouGov Buys Conversation Platform inconvo"."News websites are seeing record online traffic – the public clearly trust journalists more than they think". ↑ "Freddie Sayers, a writer for UnHerd"."News websites are seeing record traffic, so public trust is higher than it seems". Sayers has interviewed academics, authors, politicians and activists on the channel which has had over 11 million views and 127,000 subscribers as of March 2021.
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Sayers joined UnHerd as Executive Editor and CEO in March 2019.ĭuring the Covid-19 lockdown, Sayers established a regular TV show titled 'LockdownTV'. Before joining YouGov Sayers founded the Westminster based political news website PoliticsHome, during which time he became a regular commentator on British politics and current affairs, contributing to The Spectator, The Times, The Daily Telegraph, Prospect Magazine and Evening Standard. Prior to this he was editor-in-chief of YouGov, the pollster and market research organisation, Sayers left YouGov to establish InConvo that was later purchased by YouGov. He is also CEO of UnHerd Ventures, the investment arm developing media and data businesses. Since March 2019, Sayers has been the Executive Editor and CEO of the online news publication UnHerd. He is a graduate of University of Oxford. He was born in London, England, and educated at St Paul's School, London.
