Barnabas Calder
Dr Barnabas Calder is Senior Lecturer in Architecture at the University of Liverpool and a former trustee of the Twentieth Century Society. His most recent book is Raw Concrete: The Beauty of Brutalism.
The battle for modern architecture
Listed landmarks face the threat of short-sightedness and greed
The beauty of Brutalism
Durham’s concrete masterpiece needs love, not the wrecking ball
Ireland’s Future has no future
Despite Irish separatist campaigning, Northern Ireland’s future remains firmly in the UK
Fined over facts?
Financial censorship is not the right way to confront the AfD
Australian insights into Britain under Labour
Anthony Albanese’s government offers a depressing glimpse of Britain’s future
Remember the Armenians
The West has turned its back on the world’s oldest Christian state
Ringo Starr
The man cruelly mocked as “not even the best drummer in The Beatles” must be the most underrated musician of all time
Here be flagons
The temperance campaigners realised that a picture can achieve more than a thousand words of argument
Twilight of the gods
The eclipse of the gilded 1980s generation can be seen as a welcome changing of the guard
Starmer and the satirists
Will British comedians be as tough on the new government as on the last?
This is what feminism looks like
“Gender critical” feminists have represented the best of feminism
Back in the big time
It is tempting to explain the turnaround in two words: “Unai” and “Emery”