General Sergei Vladimirovich Surovikin has been appointed commander of all Russian forces involved in the invasion of Ukraine. Job description – ‘Stop the rot. Get on the front foot. Do whatever it takes’. The last point is why, after months of humiliating military defeats, and with political dissent beginning to appear in public, President Putin gave the order – send for Sorovikin.
Grenfell, groupthink, greed and impossibly complex systems
A simple question – asked at the right time and then acted on – could have averted the Grenfell catastrophe.