David Cowan
David Cowan is an author and Associate Lecturer in Law at National University of Ireland Maynooth. His next book Effective Communication for Lawyers: A Practical Guide (Edward Elgar) is due out in 2021.
How to fix our broken justice system
In a world of superficial identity politics, Alexandra Wilson’s book offers a nuanced narrative
Can we save our parish churches?
It will take cultural as well as institutional change
Why won’t Chris Whitty go away?
He lingers on — a slap-headed Rasputin whispering terrible ideas into the ears of our leaders
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Prince
Is he simply a desperate chancer, or a genuine threat to British interests?
A bleak midwinter
For fans watching QPR struggle for the past two decades, it feels like the club is cursed
Post-truth medicine
Gender clinics offer a charade that relies on the symbols of evidence-based medicine
What we don’t talk about when we talk about mental illness
We talk about mental health differently – but is it an improvement?
We should have the freedom to criticise Islam
Religious freedom entails the right to criticise a belief system as well as to adhere to it
Not much COP
Holding the climate summit in Baku displays brazen hypocrisy
Blogosphere bubble
Reviving a simple English classic: bubble and squeak
An open letter on academic free speech
Calls for more intellectual openness are not a defence of Islamists and Holocaust deniers. A response to Mark Ferguson MP