Robert Davis
Robert A. Davis is Professor of Religious and Cultural Education and Director of the Robert Owen Centre in the University of Glasgow. He has lived in Cumbernauld since 1964 and is writing in a personal capacity. He tweets at @Rokewood
L’Architecture of Lanarkshire
Urban planning should depend on local residents more than abstract debates
Britain isn’t the Balkans
The UK is not, despite heated rhetoric, on the brink of sectarian violence. But it is heading in the wrong direction
London and the laggards
In the eighteenth century London was booming, but many towns weren’t doing so well
Tough on smoking, tough on alternatives to smoking
We should give smokers healthier options, not no options
Farage bursts the green bubble
Nigel Farage is right about the unrestrained pursuit of Net Zero
The follies of the wets
There is nothing “moderate” about the Tory centrists
Conservatism needs environmentalism
What could be more conservative than conserving our natural heritage?
The secret war of a wolf in chic clothing
Dudley Clarke had his fingers in many of the most interesting pies of covert operations in World War II
Can jokes in terrible taste ever be funny?
Wisecracks is clearly the work of an academic philosopher adept at teasing out fine distinctions between “offenses” and “harms”