About Us
Welcome to Clare Politics. We are a non-partisan student-run society based at Clare College, Cambridge. Our goal is to bring the leading figures from the world of politics and current affairs to Clare to discuss the issues of the day.
Matthew Parris
Honorary Patron
Matthew Parris is one of the most widely respected political commentators in Britain today. A student at Clare and a Mellon Fellow at Yale, his varied career includes working for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, as Margaret Thatcher’s correspondence secretary and as a Conservative MP. Now a full time journalist and broadcaster, he is a columnist for The Times and regularly contributes to The Spectator as well as working in radio and television. He has published many books on travel and politics and his autobiography ‘Chance Witness’ won the 2004 Orwell Prize, Britain’s pre-eminent award for political writing.
Clare Politics is run by:
Tom Hegarty
President
James Wakeley
Secretary
Lucy May Maxwell
Treasurer
Theo Zhang
Publicity
Previous Committees:
2008/2009
Morgan Lewis
President
Studying for BA (Hons), Architecture
Kieran Hawkins
Secretary
Studying for BA (Hons), Law
Peter Lockwood
Treasurer
Studying for BA (Hons), History
Stuart Sheppard
Publicity
Studying for BA (Hons), History
2007/2008
Matt Juden
President
BA (Hons), Philosophy
Ed Ballard
Secretary
Studying for MA in History at Clare
Owen Sanderson
Treasurer
BA (Hons), History
Sam Dub
Publicity
BA (Hons), English
2006/2007
Matt Clifford
President
BA (Hons) History; MA, Management Studies (Clare); currently studying Political Science at MIT
Sam Rickman
Secretary
BA (Hons), Social & Political Sciences
Martin Vaivods
Treasurer
BA (Hons), Social & Political Sciences
Katy Ivko
Publicity
BA (Hons), History
