Clare Politics is delighted to announce a new addition to the Michaelmas 2007 programme. In association with the Faculty of History we present Doug Wilder. As former govenor of Virginia he was the first African American to be elected govenor of a U.S. State and remains the only African American to be elected govenor of [...]
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Thank you so much to everyone who made Douglas Murray’s talk to Clare Politics and CUCA tonight such a huge success by their attendance and their questions. Mr Murray spoke to an absolutely packed Bennett Room about what it was to be a neoconservative in his sense. His talk was brief but wide-ranging including consideration [...]
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Philip Cowley, political scientist and blogger, gave a fascinating talk challenging the commonplace notion that today’s MPs are the most supine in history. Dr Cowley explained why our parliamentarians have never been so rebellious and what it means for the future of British democracy.
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A warm welcome to the revamped Clare Politics website for 2007/8 on behalf of all the new committee.
We are still confirming dates with some speakers for Michaelmas term but check the
What’s On? section which will be updated with confirmed speakers.
We hope to run joint events with Queens/Clare Overseas Education Fund and other [...]
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Anthony Seldon, pre-eminent biographer of Tony Blair, painted a fascinating and unusually human picture of the former Prime Minister in his talk to Clare Politics.
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Peter Lilley drew a large and very engaged crowd for his talk on ‘Why Poverty Isn’t History’. Describing some of the dangers and pitfalls that face policy-makers in the field of international development, Peter Lilley suggested ways that aid could be made to work better and looked ahead to the futute with considerable optimism.
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Shami Chakrabarti spoke passionately about the danger posed to our way of life by calls to restrict liberty in favour of security in a talk that attracted a large audience and provoked a wide range of questions, from the sympathetic to the controversial.
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