内容摘要：Three police officers were injured during the disorder - two remained on duty while the third was relieved from duty after suffering concussion.

Three police officers were injured during the disorder - two remained on duty while the third was relieved from duty after suffering concussion.

The report by Sir Martin Moore-Bick, a retired High Court judge, says experts sounded an alarm about cladding fires in 1992 after the 11-storey Knowsley Heights tower caught alight in Huyton, Merseyside.Seven years later there was another fire at Garnock Court in Irvine, North Ayrshire, and a committee of MPs repeated the concerns.

But the flammable cladding wasn’t banned because it had already been classed as meeting a British safety standard.Safety tests in 2001 revealed the type of cladding of concern “burned violently”. The results were kept confidential and the government did not tighten any rules.“We do not understand the failure to act in relation to a matter of such importance,” the inquiry panel said.

Eight years later in 2009, six people died in a fire at Lakanal House, a high rise in South London. The coroner at their inquests asked for a review of building regulations but, the inquiry found, this was “not treated with any sense of urgency.”In 2010 the coalition government headed by David Cameron was on a mission to cut regulations - which it had dubbed as “red tape” holding back British enterprise.

The inquiry found this policy so “dominated” thinking in government that “even matters affecting the safety of life were ignored, delayed or disregarded.”

The inquiry found that the then housing department was “poorly run” and fire safety had been left in the hands of a relatively junior official.Not long after Harvard refused to agree to the White House's sweeping list of demands - which included directions on how to govern, hire and teach - the Trump administration froze $2.2bn (£1.7bn) of federal funds to the institution.

"Everyone knows that Harvard has 'lost its way,'" Donald Trump wrote on social media on Wednesday morning. "Harvard is a JOKE, teaches Hate and Stupidity, and should no longer receive Federal Funds."Many students and alumni lauded the university's decision to stand its ground, despite the consequences. Former President Barack Obama, an alumnus himself, called Trump's move "ham-handed" and praised Harvard as "an example for other higher-ed institutions".

In response to Harvard's decision to refuse the government's demands, the education department accused the university of a "troubling entitlement mindset that is endemic in our nation's most prestigious universities and colleges – that federal investment does not come with the responsibility to uphold civil rights laws".With billions in the balance, the battle for the higher ground in the case of Harvard may just be the opening salvo in a war of attrition between the federal government and higher education.