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:
Morgan Lewis
President
Kieran Hawkins
Secretary
Peter Lockwood
Treasurer
Stuart Sheppard
Publicity
The Clare Politics Blog is written by:
Jonathan Birch
Reads History & Philosophy of Science
at Clare College
James Chettle
Reads Natural Sciences at Clare College
Matt Clifford
Reads Management Studies at Clare College
Andrew Noakes
Reads History at Peterhouse College
Jack Prevezer
Reads Social and Political Sciences
at Gonville & Caius College
