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
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Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
When imitation is more then just flattery
An informative and entertaining history of plagiarism in its many forms
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
The games we play
Richard Holt’s sweeping survey of sporting history shows how games, from cricket to boxing, became one of Britain’s most durable cultural languages
Why do we hate industry?
Performative laissez-faire has been a failure. It’s time for a new policy
To defeat populism, don’t start here
Views that would be charming in their naivety, were they not so contradictory or facile
Will London fall?
If the Greens take London, what might happen to policing?
Escape to the country
Some tractor-acceptance meditation might help with moving day
No bullshit government
Tom Jones grills the shadow minister for
policy renewal about the plans of a
future Tory administration
The Boston barbarians
The Boston Symphony acted like a New Orleans nightclub owner with a recalcitrant pole-dancer
The EU is changing on immigration
A firmer stance is being taken — but will it be enough?
