
David Cowan
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@TheConReaderSub editor | @commonplc contributor | @JoinFAI fellow | @UniOfBuckingham research fellow | writing a book with @politybooks | views my own
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To save the country, conservatism must liberate itself from liberalism. My essay in the The Spectator this weekend. spectator.co.uk/article/how-to…


We're thrilled today to be launching The Rickover Corpus with Charles Yang and Center for Industrial Strategy The Corpus is a free searchable archive of over 2,500 pages of never before seen speeches, memos, and testimony from Hyman Rickover digitized from the USNA rickovercorpus.org



No more fish discos. Backed by Britain Remade & Looking for Growth, today I’ve set out radical plans to speed up and cut the cost of building the new nuclear power stations we need for our economy, for our energy security and for nature. telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/07/1…

🚨NEW Conservative Reader 👇 Juliet Samuel on Afghanistan Matthew Syed on home ownership Yanis Varoufakis on assetocracy Neil O'Brien on crime & Balkanisation Trevor Phillips on small boats James Kanagasooriam on AI & blue collar workers Rian Chad Whitton on energy & more! link in bio


I'm campaigning against our Islamic blasphemy laws. Labour are rigging the "Islamophobia" consultation - so we need YOU to take part. You can use my suggested answers here: nicktimothy.com/help-me-to-def… The deadline is TOMORROW. This is YOUR chance to save free speech in Britain.



We’re launching Right Of Way, a podcast about energy policy, energy politics, and above all the upcoming permitting reform fight. Hosted by me and Pavan Venkatakrishnan, presented by IFP and Foundation for American Innovation 🇺🇸🚀. First episode dropping next week — stay tuned.

Illegal immigrants from places like Ethiopia and Albania are committing awful crimes. But Labour are keeping asylum accommodation secret. And the police are helping left-wing agitators to confront ordinary people worried about their kids’ safety. My letter to Yvette Cooper:


🚨NEW Conservative Reader 🚨 Chris Worrall on Labour Guy Dampier on Epping jonn elledge is mainly on bluesky on decline Katie Lam on Islamophobia Chris Bayliss on markets Michael Needham on reindustrialisation Maxwell Marlow 🇺🇦 on wealth Suella Braverman MP on ECHR more in bio and below!📩







🚨NEW Conservative Reader! Juliet Samuel on Israel Giles Fraser on Gaza Archie Hall on energy Maurice Cousins on net zero Paul Goodman on conservatism Emma Schubart on immigration & pensions Centre for Policy Studies on rail Katie Lam on The Peter McCormack Show Tom Tugendhat on PoliticsJOE 👇



As Tom Jones and David Cowan outline in the Adam Smith Institute’s ‘Selecting the Best’ paper, we must get a grip on low-skilled, high-cost immigration before it bankrupts the British state. Visa-auctions and ILR for OECD income-equivalent nations should be brought to the fore, with no
