Take five: A news summary for anxious times

Lost your appetite for rolling news? These are the stories you need to know about this week…

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Hello! It’s Friday, which means it’s time for Take Five – and another attempt at succinctly summarising a week’s worth of headlines from a world set to overwhelm.

As ever, this weekly summary will aim to bring you up to date with the stories that most matter to women and marginalised communities, without the need to immerse yourself in the anxiety of rolling news and intrusive updates.

Each week, I summarise five news stories you need to know about alongside five good news tales to lighten the load, and a further five longer reads, columns or interviews I’ve found engaging or enlightening over the last seven days.

There’s been a lot to get through this week. Again. I’m sure a time will come when I’ll open this differently though… Right?

The headlines

1. Every Grenfell Tower death was ‘avoidable’, enquiry finds

The firms behind the Grenfell Tower fire were yesterday slammed for “spinning a web of blame” as a 400-day inquiry into the disaster drew to a close.

In a damning final statement, lead counsel Richard Millett KC accused the firms and organisations who appeared at the inquiry of denying responsibility despite evidence of “incompetence”, “malpractice” and “dishonesty”.