Geraint Franklin
Geraint Franklin is an architectural historian with Historic England. His books include Howell Killick Partridge & Amis, Post-Modern Buildings in Britain and, most recently, John Outram (Liverpool University Press, £30)
A singular modern master
Architect John Outram fused high-tech and tradition to create his own unique style
How capitalism gave women leisure
Feminist anti-capitalists are spinning delusions about economic history
Plane crash government
With Sunak’s agenda firmly earthbound and far from civilisation, some MPs are clearly contemplating cannibalism
Must we keep failing universities alive?
History is full of institutions which could not justify their own existence
Why we should resist this “conversion therapy” ban
It would enshrine dubious claims as unarguable facts, and it endangers freedom and young people
The morality of altruism
People have a limitless capacity to convince themselves that what’s right coincides with what’s best for them
William Wilberforce and England’s forgotten saints
The Clapham Saints and their efforts to reform British manners have been unjustly and unwisely forgotten
The passage from India
The failings of Bazball, like the failings of Britain, are becoming more apparent
Maggie’s greatest gift
Touring the Med in the pioneering gastropub that transformed how we eat
Get religion or get lost
In an age of rising religious conflict, religious literacy is not an optional extra