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
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Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Vandalising the law
Activists and politicians should respect the law even if they don’t like it
Where are all the ambitious Scots?
Whole sectors were once dominated by Caledonian migrants
Truth and consequences for ministers
Former Ministers should be hauled back before MPs to justify their poor decisions
Britain must call its exiles home
The nation cannot continue to lose its top talent
The problem with Palantir
The software company is attempting to redefine politics for the worse
Britain’s next moral panic
Half a century after abandoning state-backed “treatments” for homosexuality, Britain risks replacing one coercive system with another
A scarcity machine
Why Peckham residents should not celebrate development being blocked
Carry on, matron
The crisis in nursing can be reversed by a return to Florence Nightingale’s vision of vocation and a rebuilt hierarchy on the wards
A rare interview proved a delight
Eavesdropping on two intelligent people sharing a civilised conversation about interesting things
