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
Barking up the wrong tree
Insta-obsessed diners can’t see the food for the reels
In praise of borrowed ideas
AI will not be the death of creativity, and could even enhance it
Singers have a voice, too
Study of the Western canon is often reduced to a politicised debate: power and patronage versus individual genius. The truth is far more complex
Let’s at least agree rape is wrong
Fundamental feminist theories are under attack from within feminism itself
Clerical error
Clergy should be in the business of saving souls, not stamping passports
Sherlock Holmes and the BBC bias
Eamonn Holmes will get to the bottom of the mystery of what happened to his career
Preaching to a dwindling choir
Once the default denomination of tycoons and the WASP elite, America’s Episcopal Church is struggling
The other Camus
The controversial author’s work is filled not just with anger but with autumnal regret
Marshalling India’s maharajahs
Dethroned: The Downfall of India’s Princely States by John Zubrzycki
The grim reality of a citizens’ assembly
A seemingly democratic initiative was nothing of the sort