Photograph courtesy of John McCain 2008.
I am hugely enjoying John McCain’s 2008 presidential run — and it’s obvious he is too. I love the witty adverts and the non-messianic tone. I admire his gravitas, his experience, his foreign policy convictions and his efforts to clean up Washington. His astonishing gamble on a 44-year old Alaskan [...]

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What exactly is going on in Georgia? A good place to start would be Michael Totten’s comprehensive overview. We owe today’s mess to a nifty trick by Stalin: gerrymandering provinces so as to maximise ethnic tension and inhibit rebellion (it’s in here somewhere). At the break-up of the [...]

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Iain Duncan Smith gave an impassioned address to a packed Bennett Room to conclude Clare Politics programme of talks for the year. Speaking on the subject ‘Social Justice and the Future of the Conservative Party’. Below is an extract from his frank and uncompromising address.

Filed under: conservatism, ids, socialjustice, speaker discussion, video on August 23rd, 2008 | No Comments »

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After a rather unintended term’s hiatus the Clare Politics site is back and highlights from the great talks we put on in Lent Term will be appearing very shortly. A bit of an explanation for the absence is necessary, back in February a security flaw in Wordpress, our blogging platform, [...]

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