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In 2015, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued German car giant Volkswagen with a violation notice under the Clean Air Act. The scandal, known as “Dieselgate” caused inflicted enormous damage upon Volkswagen’s worldwide reputation. In 2019 during a live demonstration of the Tesla Cybertruck’s supposedly shatterproof window technology, the car’s head designer was invited…Read moreRead more

In January 1978, the Sex Pistols embarked upon a seven-date tour of America. It was a disaster. The band was pelted with beer cans in Dallas, boycotted in Memphis, and hounded by moral outrage at every stop. By the time they arrived at the Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco, the band was imploding amidst infighting;…Read moreRead more

On 12 September 1962, US President John F. Kennedy rose to his feet at Rice University in Houston, Texas to deliver what would prove to be one of the most memorable speeches in human history. The speech concluded: “We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because…Read moreRead more

On Saturday, across the vastness of the United States, more than seven million people took to the streets. Across six time zones, from California to Maine, from the deep South to the industrial Midwest, from the tiny towns to the sprawling metropolis of the cities, they gathered beneath banners that read No Kings. It was,…Read moreRead more

How did we get here? Hauling ourselves out of bed at 4:30 am to beat the traffic and get to site? Because the industry, in its planning arrogance, chose to treat commuting misery as a non-issue. Because contractors, clients, site managers, and local authorities never built into schedules the chaos of rush hour and congestion….Read moreRead more

I don’t know about yours, but my house is a haven of productivity. The coffee machine switches itself on before I crawl out of bed, greeting me with a heady aroma and a much-needed kick of caffeine. Thanks to the presence of a freezer and a microwave, I can prepare a meal in roughly the…Read moreRead more

Hillsborough, Grenfell Tower, the Post Office scandal, and the Didcot disaster: four tragedies spanning decades. Different circumstances, same outcome. Working-class lives lost, bereaved families ignored, or destroyed while justice lagged, blame shifted, and the powerful looked away. This article continues on Demolition Insider. Please use the link below to access this article FOR FREE.

I was introduced recently to a man I had never previously met. The person doing the introduction said: “This is Mark Anthony of DemolitionNews. He’s not well-liked in the demolition industry because he has a nasty habit of telling the truth.” I think he meant it as a compliment and that is certainly how I…Read moreRead more

There was another mass shooting in America this past weekend. This one took place at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Grand Blanc Township in Michigan on Sunday 28 September 2025. I wrote this yesterday. I need to make that clear because there is every possibility that there will have been another…Read moreRead more

Some years ago, a friend of mine told me about a twin boom excavator he had seen at a construction equipment exhibition in China. Having first established that this wasn’t a prank of some kind, I went in search of the machine and found that it did, in fact, exist. More than that, there were…Read moreRead more