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
The war on women’s spaces
Roxanne Tickle’s legal triumph is nothing to giggle at
The dangerous rise of egg harvesting
Women should not be encouraged to undergo a dangerous and unnecessary procedure
The Tory beauty contest
The good, the bad, the ugly and the downright embarrassing
Thou shalt not pray?
The British state is ruthlessly prosecuting thoughtcrime
Afrocentrism with a Labour twist
Dawn Butler’s Black History Month video was disturbing as well as weird
War, peace and city streets
How English towns survived the Blitz and entered the modern world
Not much COP
Holding the climate summit in Baku displays brazen hypocrisy
The 300 Years’ War
How conflict over land ownership shaped conflict over Ireland
The childishness of republicanism
Lidia Thorpe’s outburst is no reflection of the Australian attitudes towards the King
Confessions of a Melbourne Bus-Fare Evader
I am become bus, destroyer of bourgeois class consciousness