The July 7 Wiltshire Times feature by John Craig, retired former chief fire officer, Wiltshire “A light touch with fire safety has cost us dear”, was his response to the Grenfell Tower disaster.

The elegant, eloquent, 200% accurate presentation should be syndicated in international media as a warning. It should be framed “The buck stops here” on the desk of every MP or government lawyer drafting acts and enforcing regulations, and of local politicians not applying them, subject to commercial bias, party whipped “nodding-through” defects.

As ever, the promised inquiry will have to contend with evasive bucks.

Harold Hazell

Bradford on Avon