After the Bodies Piled Up
The debate over Boris Johnson’s comments is a reminder that Britain’s pandemic disaster wasn’t an act of god, it was a failure of government – as lockdown eases we should remember why so much was lost.
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Mark Brown writes on mental health, popular culture, social enterprise, technology and social change.
The debate over Boris Johnson’s comments is a reminder that Britain’s pandemic disaster wasn’t an act of god, it was a failure of government – as lockdown eases we should remember why so much was lost.
The prefabricated homes built across Britain in the 1940s were more than just emergency housing – they were a rapid response to crises of overcrowding and poor accommodation that were remarkably similar to today.
The arts and media are all too often dominated by the vengeful outsider – but we should be aspiring to rise with our class, not out of it.