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Mark Brown

Mark Brown writes on mental health, popular culture, social enterprise, technology and social change.

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.

In Defence of the Prefab

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.