Babylon Decoded
Unpacking my colonial baggage and saying the quiet parts out loud — because therapy’s expensive and sarcasm is free.
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Nye Bevan Built the NHS in Two Years. We Can't Build a Train Line in Twenty-Five.
Winston Brown | Babylon Decoded
In November 1946 Lewis Silkin, Labour's planning minister, went to Stevenage to explain why a sleepy Hertfordshire town was about to become Britain's first New Town. He got heckled to buggery. Someone had sw...
Gen Z Isn't Humble. It's Skint With Good Taste.
Winston Brown | Babylon Decoded
There's a type of article that turns up every few months in the weekend supplements, and I've started collecting them like a mild form of self-harm. They go roughly like this. Young people are rejecting mate...
The Chickens are Coming Home to Roost, and They're Flying a Cartoon Pirate Flag
Winston Brown | Babylon Decoded
Nine days after Kennedy was shot, Malcolm X was asked what he made of it and said it was a case of the chickens coming home to roost. That was December 1st 1963. Elijah Muhammad suspended him, the papers wen...
They Burned His Initials Into African Skin. Then They Made Him King.
Winston Brown | Babylon Decoded
The two letters were D and Y. A hot iron put them on the bodies of kidnapped Africans so that nobody in Bridgetown or Kingston could argue about whose property had just come off the boat. Many of the people...
George Osborne Ran Heinrich Brüning's Playbook. We're Still Paying for the Sequel.
Winston Brown | Babylon Decoded
In 1930 Germany had a Chancellor called Heinrich Brüning. He was serious, Catholic, sober, and a bit of a fiscal hawk. The economy was falling off a cliff, and he decided the responsible thing was to cut spe...
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Spilling my colonial trauma like tea at a messy brunch, because who needs therapy when you’ve got WiFi, unresolved issues, and a talent for turning pain into punchlines?
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