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
What is Toryism for?
What has it done if it has not made a system it wishes to defend?
How the West fell out of love with mass migration
Restrictionist opinion is breaking through the establishment cordon sanitaire
The Just Stop Oil sentences were just
Direct action protestors are not immune from the operation of the law
What is behind the ECHR debate?
We should stop pretending that moral disagreements can be reduced to technical debates
Is Starmer the anti-Thatcher?
He does not have the right ambition and imagination
Trump’s first gambit fails
The Republican candidate was not as effective on the debate stage as he anticipated
The far enemy
The motivations for the 9/11 attacks are still misunderstood and moralised
The immobile prince
Political chaos masks the stagnation of French economic life