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Clare Politics is proud to announce that the third speaker for Lent Term 2008 will be leading British political historian Peter Hennessy.
Peter Hennessy is Attlee Professor of Contemporary British History at Queen Mary, University of London and Fellow of British Academy. Starting his career as a journalist he covered British [...]

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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 »

Clare Politics is delighted to announce its new team of bloggers for 07/08, after a period of careful deliberation and much debate we have whittled our applicants down to a really strong team of 6:
Robert Stagg
Reads English at Emmanuel College
James Chettle
Reads Natural Sciences at Clare College

Jack Prevezer
Reads Social and Political Sciences [...]

Filed under: clarepoliticsnews on November 3rd, 2007 | No Comments »

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 [...]

Filed under: clarepoliticsnews on October 18th, 2007 | No Comments »

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 [...]

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

First, let me say it’s great to see so many of you from all over the world interested in our blog - we’re very grateful for the attention and hope you’ll continue to drop in now and then in the future.
However, I am afraid I will have to disappoint some of you now. Here are [...]

Filed under: clareification, clarepoliticsnews, freespeech, religion on February 14th, 2007 | 3 Comments »

We are extremely sorry and disappointed to announce that Jim Naughtie has had to cancel his appearance at Clare Politics on Thursday at short notice. Jim asked that we passed on his personal apologies. We are now looking to rebook Jim to come to talk to us in the near future.

Filed under: clareification, clarepoliticsnews on February 13th, 2007 | 12 Comments »

We’ve just upgraded our web site to integrate our new blog into the main page. There may be a few problems with some content over the next couple of days, but I’ll try to iron them out as soon as possible. Let me know if you have any difficulties.
The highlights videos are not yet available [...]

Filed under: clarepoliticsnews on February 8th, 2007 | No Comments »

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 »