I confess that I am not one of the real Clare Politics bloggers, but having seen Liz’s West Wing reference in the previous posy, I couldn’t resist. The West Wing has occasionally been dismissed as a liberal fantasy: how likely are we to have a Nobel Laureate Democrat with a serious chance of winning the [...]

Filed under: election2008, uspolitics on February 4th, 2007 | 4 Comments »

I, like many other people, was under the impression that Senator Biden was already officially running for President. But apparently not. And it doesn’t look as if he will be for long.
People may recall I mocked John Kerry for having a tendency to let his mouth run away with him…and it looks as if [...]

Filed under: election2008, uspolitics on February 3rd, 2007 | No Comments »

While there may be a baby European elephant in the room (see Owen’s article below), the real, rampaging, galumphing, trumpeting elephant is climate change.
But don’t worry; this isn’t a post on climate change, it’s on electoral reform. My premise is that the adversarial, first-past-the-post (FPP) system of election in the UK is [...]

Filed under: electoralreform, ukpolitics on February 2nd, 2007 | 7 Comments »

One can almost hear the sighs of apathy when people read the title “IRAQ.” The subject has been covered to death, exhausted by endless media footage of another road side bomb, another market square atrocity. Yet whilst in the U.S the government is coming under growing calls for accountability over the debacle, here in [...]

Filed under: iraq on February 2nd, 2007 | 1 Comment »

Just a reminder that our next event is tonight at 5.30pm in the Bennett Room, Memorial Court, when the speaker will be Lord Adonis, the Schools Minister.
Lord Adonis is the first serving government minister to speak to the society and his talk represents a fantastic chance to grill one of the most influential men in [...]

Filed under: clarepoliticsnews on February 1st, 2007 | No Comments »