Someone said that lessons were learned from the Manchester fire. I'm not so sure. Lessons at ground level, perhaps. But I've been working intensely with independent experts on the Grenfell Tower fire and it's clear that lessons at the top have not been learned. Or they've been ignored for a mixture of motives that on the whole have less to do with public safety than profit and personal elevation. Unfortunately, business (and its corrupt enablers) has the clout to customise public safety measures to its own ends. So, it may have been true that the Woolworth's fire led to the introduction of the UK's furniture flammability regulations. It may also have been true that at first these did a job of protecting the public. But what is now true, 30 years on, is that these Regulations have been thoroughly abducted by the furniture and chemical industries, with the result that we are all sitting on products that are flammable when they shouldn't be (because the regulations are no longer effective), and suffering various illnesses from flame retardant dust. Worse still, if a fire starts in your sofa, the toxic flame retardant fumes will kill you quicker than any flames. Which leads back to Grenfell Tower . . .