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One may take Job to task on life being ‘full of misery’, but some day we shall all be ‘cut down like a flower’ and ‘flee’th as it were a shadow’. Death has been in the news a lot lately. It is never a comfortable subject. [...]
Filed under: abortion, afghanistan, arabisraeliconflict, jadegoody on March 29th, 2009 | No Comments »
…this guy would be dead by now. Of course, if Bush were Saddam, he’d never have tried his luck. But he knew his action would be interpreted as an act of political dissent — in a country where dissent is now allowed. He may serve a jail term, but it seems far more likely that [...]
Filed under: afghanistan, al qaeda, clarepoliticsnews, democracy, humanrights, ideas, iraq, jonathanbirch, society, uspolitics on December 15th, 2008 | No Comments »
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The 44th President of the United States will be a crisis president. But he won’t just have an economic disaster to deal with. He’ll also inherit twin military deployments in the region between Israel and India — an area we should perhaps think of as one massive region, one massive problem, but [...]
Filed under: afghanistan, barackobama, election2008, iraq, jonathanbirch, uspolitics on October 2nd, 2008 | No Comments »
Thank you to everyone who filled the Latimer room beyond capacity to hear David Loyn this evening.
David shared with us his free and frank assessment of the history, present and future of the conflicts in Afghanistan in a talk he preferred that we did not record. He gave detailed analyses of the military, [...]
Filed under: 9/11, afghanistan, bbc, clarepoliticsnews, davidloyn, foreignpolicy, history, speaker discussion, taliban on January 22nd, 2008 | No Comments »
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Clare Politics is proud to announce that the second speaker for Lent Term 2008 will be Dr. Rosemary Hollis.
Dr. Hollis is Director of Research at Chatham House (the Royal Institute of International Affairs) in London. She is a leading expert on foreign policy and security issues in the Middle [...]
Filed under: afghanistan, clarepoliticsnews, iran, iraq, middleeast on January 11th, 2008 | No Comments »
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We’re really excited about the programme of speakers we put together for Lent Term, over the next week we’ll be announcing our termcard and giving you a bit of background about our speakers. Our first speaker for Lent Term will be the journalist David Loyn.
David Loyn is the [...]
Filed under: 9/11, afghanistan, bbc, clarepoliticsnews, davidloyn, journalism, taliban on January 11th, 2008 | No Comments »
