After a man-made disaster like the Grenfell Tower fire, the rush to judgment can be contagious. On the day of the fire, when acrid smoke filled the skies of west London, Jeremy Corbyn said that “if you cut local authority expenditure then a price is paid somewhere”. He was applauded for his frankness. But to me, such a nakedly political statement seemed premature. In fact, I was stunned by it. It was a repeat of his opportunistic attack over cuts to the armed police after the London Bridge atrocity. As it happens, I was on the bridge that awful night with my wife: police officers wielding machine guns came to our rescue within minutes. His criticism was beside the point.