Robert Clark
Robert Clark is a Research Fellow at Civitas. He has served fifteen years in the British military, including operational tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. Follow him at @RobertClark87
Breaking our ranks
Woke culture poisons operational capability while Defence whittles away British forces
Brussels, capital city of Surrealism
In Brussels, Surrealism lurks in the most unexpected places
Banning masks from protests is a bad idea
Anonymity can be essential to dissent against tyrannical regimes
We must escape Subtopia
As Ian Nairn warned, British town planning has had a grim levelling effect on our urban and rural spaces
How did Conservative modernisation go?
David Cameron’s “A-List” has turned out to be second-rate
Resistance is futile
Acceptance can be an act of protest. Not a submissive, passive surrender.
Liberal gerontocracy and its discontents
Fewer young people supporting more old people has become an unsustainable situation
The invasiveness of voice notes
Don’t send them, and if you must send them keep them short
Could Britain have a coherent written constitution?
It seems probable that it would have a Christianity-shaped hole at its core
The end of Pevsner
The monumental work of maintaining a live record of the architecture of the UK and Ireland is in danger of being abandoned
Dumb, glum and zero-sum
British thinking has to value supply more than distribution