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
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Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
A culture of death
Street gangs and online provocation are fuelling a morbid subculture in British life
Reimagining the people’s palace
A building that deserves to be admired as an example of intelligent and sophisticated urban planning
Quinlan Terry
He kept the flame of classicism alive at a time when it burnt very low
There is nothing authentic about Andy Burnham
The blokeish Labour man is as slimy a politician as the rest of them
Reform should ignore bad faith criticism
The party is not perfect but that does not make all criticism valid
Kemi Badenoch was right about the chaos in Clapham
Rioting as entertainment is a First World phenomenon
The resistible centrism of Mark Gatiss
Why a centre-left worldview struggles to understand dissent
Cloaked Crusader
Richard I: valiant hero of Romance but also a perfidious, self-serving lord
“You can’t preach here!”
A hostile attitude towards preaching threatens freedom of religion and freedom of speech
Class war in the upper house
The end of the Lords’ ancient
right to resolve peerage disputes
is the latest casualty of Labour’s
constitutional vandalism
First time thrills
Most of all, it was a tournament of heroes and villains
