Karen Giorno - How Trump won 2016
Thursday 9th March 8:30 pm
The parlour

Sam Leith- Rhetoric from Aristotle to Trump
Thursday 9th February 8:30 pm


Sam Leith is the literary editor of The Spectator. He is also a columnist for the Evening Standard and contributor to many other publications. In 2011 he published a book on rhetoric and politics which, though timely, has only become more relevant. His talk will describe the beginnings of this ancient discipline and then describe how it has developed up to the present day.

Dr John Lott - More Guns, Less Crime
Thursday 19th January 8:30 pm

Bert Ralston-Trump v Clinton, A Report on the US Presidential and Congressional Elections
Thursday 17th November 8:30 pm

Daniel Wolfe- 'Catch Me Daddy' Screening and Q&A with the Director
Thursday 20th October 6:30 pm

Professor Nicole Westmarland - 'Women, politics and violence’
Monday 3rd October 8:30 am
The Parlour

Professor Nicole Westmarland is an academic and activist in the area of violence against women. She is currently a Professor at the University of Durham, where she researches rape, domestic violence and prostitution. Westmarland has sat on both governmental and non-governmental advisory panels, and chaired Rape Crisis (England and Wales) for five years. Her most recent work investigated women's views of the police's response to sexual violence

Professor John Dunn - ‘How far should we trust democracy?'
Thursday 25th February 8:30 am
The Parlour

Professor John Dunn is Emeritus Professor of Political Theory at King’s College Cambridge and his work focuses on applying a historical perspective to modern political thought. He is the author of The Cunning Unreason (2001), a work that discusses how the limits of human knowledge and rationality prevent democratic republicanism from achieving all that it promises.

Dr Christopher Finlay - ‘Terrorism, Rebellion and Theory of Just Revolutionary War’
Tuesday 19th January 8:30 am
The Parlour

Christopher J. Finlay is a Reader in Political Theory at the University of Birmingham. He teaches and writes on international political theory, particularly just war theory, terrorism and the ethics of political violence, and on the history of political thought. His most recent book, which shares a title with this talk, was released in August. It addressed contemporary debates in just war theory, international relations and applied ethics.

Dr Phil Clark - ‘Everyday Perpetrators: Addressing the Role of Low-Level Actors in African Mass Atrocities’
Thursday 14th January 8:30 am
The Parlour

Dr Phil Clark
‘Everyday Perpetrators: Addressing the Role of Low-Level Actors in African Mass Atrocities’ Thursday 14th January
Phil Clark is Reader in Comparative and International Politics at SOAS. He is a political scientist specialising in conflict and post-conflict issues in Africa, particularly questions of peace, truth, justice and reconciliation. He addresses the history and politics of the African Great Lakes, particularly causes of and responses to genocide and forms of mass violence.

Professor William Maley - ‘Assessing the intervention in Afghanistan’
Thursday 3rd December 8:30 pm
The Parlour, Peterhouse

Professor Maley is Director of the Asia-Pacific College of Diplomacy at the Australian National University. He is author of Rescuing Afghanistan (2006) and The Afghanistan Wars (2009), and co-editor of Reconstructing Afghanistan (2014). He is also Vice-President of the Refugee Council of Australia.

Professor Zoe Trodd - ‘Contemporary Global Slavery and the Antislavery Usable Past’
Thursday 19th November 8:30 pm
The Parlour, Peterhouse

Founder of The Cambridge Student and now Professor of American Literature at the University of Nottingham, Zoe Trodd is a leading member of Historians Against Slavery, the editorial board of Slavery Today, and Harvard's Sexuality, Gender, and Human Rights Program.

Charles Moore - 'The True History of Margaret Thatcher’
Tuesday 3rd November 8:30 am
Peterhouse Theatre

Former editor of The Spectator (1984-90), The Sunday Telegraph (1992-5) and The Daily Telegraph (1995-2003), Charles Moore was chosen by the Iron Lady to be her authorised biographer. The first volume, entitled Not For Turning, was published shortly after her funeral and the second volume, Everything She Wants, has just been released. His wife was the first female Fellow of Peterhouse.

Policy 'Lite' Paper Presentation: The UK and the EU
Friday 30th October 6:00 pm
The Nightingale Room

Peterhouse Politics Society (PPS) and The Wilberforce Society (TWS) are pleased to announce our first policy paper presentation of the year, a short paper on the relationship between the UK and the EU, researched and written by Shilpita Mathews. Our guests for the event will be Professor Kenneth Armstrong, Professor of European Law at Cambridge, and Dr Julie Smith, Director of the European Centre at POLIS, Cambridge, who will provide us with their expert opionions on the paper and the issue more broadly.

Barakat Jassem -
Thursday 22nd October 8:30 am
The Parlour, Peterhouse

Born in Baghdad, Barakat Jassem has had an interesting life. Following periods as Fulbright fellow at Dartmouth College (2004-2006) and MBI Al Jaber fellow at SOAS (2007-2008), he is now an Arab affairs analyst for the US government.

Annual Dinner
Tuesday 5th May 7:00 pm
The Combination Room

The Principal Guest, who will give a short after dinner speech, will be Major General (retd.) Andrew Sharpe. With 34 years of military service and nine operational tours, and now coordinating two independent defence think tanks, this is sure to be an enlightening and engaging part of the evening.

The Wilberforce Society: ‘After the Umbrella Revolution: Hong Kong’s Road to Democracy’
Monday 27th April 6:00 pm
Boys Smith Room in the Fisher Building, St John’s College

We are very excited to announce a policy paper presentation co-hosted with The Wilberforce Society: ‘After the Umbrella Revolution: Hong Kong’s Road to Democracy’ written by Jason Wong and Vincent Garton. The esteemed Anson Chan, one of Hong Kong’s top civil servants and defenders of democratic rights, will be flying over from Hong Kong to give her comments on the paper and provide insight into the latest developments in the region.

In light of the recent 'Occupy Central with Love and Peace' movement (a.k.a. Umbrella Movement), political developments in Hong Kong have once again captured the world's attention, with images of umbrella-wielding, raincoat-clad protesters facing off with baton-brandishing policemen dominating headlines across the globe. The authors of this paper discuss the road to democracy in post-Occupy Hong Kong, and analyse how best the Hong Kong democracy movement can utilise the political energy generated in the protests to push for greater political rights for its citizens.

Anson Chan Fang CBE, GBM, JP is the former Chief Secretary in the Hong Kong government under both British colonial rule and Chinese sovereignty. After joining the Civil Service in 1962, as one of only two women to do so, Anson Chan set up the Association of Female Senior Government Officers to demand better rights for women civil servants. This was just the beginning of her many campaigns for equality and democracy; throughout her career Anson Chan has repeatedly defended freedom of the press and pressed for constitutional change. Retired since in 2001, she has continued to fight for democratisation, participating in protest marches for universal suffrage and setting up the campaign group 'Hong Kong 2020' to monitor progress in constitutional reform.

Dr Amira Bennison – “(il-)Legitimate Violence: Jihad Lessons from the Medieval Maghrib'”
Thursday 12th March 8:30 am
Peterhouse Parlour

Dr Bennison is currently senior lecturer in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies here at Cambridge, and Fellow of Magdalene College. Her Arabic name ‘Amira’ was given to her by Egyptian friends in Cairo, and she decided to keep it. Known for her media appearances, such as on Radio 4’s In Our Time, her most recent book The Great Caliphs focusses on the golden age of Islam, in particular the ‘Abbasid Empire. In 2002 she published Jihad and Its Interpretation in Pre-colonial Morocco.

Baron Jay of Ewelme – “Does Britain have the confidence to stay in the European Union?”
Thursday 26th February 8:30 pm
Peterhouse Parlour

Michael, Lord Jay finished his diplomatic career as Head of the Diplomatic Service, having before that served as Ambassador to France from 1996-2001. In 2005 and 2006 he was the Prime Minister’s Personal Representative for the Gleneagles and St Petersburg G8 summits. Lord Jay unusually transferred to the Foreign Office having already worked for a number of years in the Ministry for Overseas Development, where he served both in Washington, at the World Bank, and in New Delhi. Since retirement he has chaired Merlin, the British medical aid agency, as well as sitting on several Lords Select Committees on European Union affairs.

Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles - “The West’s struggles with Islam”
Monday 9th February 8:30 pm
Peterhouse Parlour

Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles is a former British diplomat, whose final posting was as the British Special Representative to Afghanistan and Pakistan 2009-2010. In that role he advocated dialogue with the Taliban as an alternative to the military-led counter-insurgency. Before that he served as Ambassador to Afghanistan and as Principal Private Secretary to the Robin Cook. During his career he was also Head of the Hong Kong Department of the FCO 1994-1997, for the handover, as well as Ambassador to both Israel and Saudi Arabia. He is also the author of two well-received books; Cables from Kabul, about his time in Afghanistan, and the wider-ranging Ever the Diplomat.

‘The West: Its Role and Challenges in a Changing World’ Douglas Murray
Thursday 4th December 8:45 pm
Parlour, G Staircase, Peterhouse

Douglas Murray is an author, journalist and columnist for The Spectator and WSJ. Besides writing Neoconservatism: Why We Need It’ (2005), ‘Bloody Sunday; Truth, Lies and the Saville Inquiry’ (2011), and ‘Islamophilia’ (2013), he is an Associate Director of the Henry Jackson Society and sits on the international advisory board of NGO Monitor.

‘Foreign Aid: Why is it given, does it work and will it survive?’ Roger C. Riddell
Thursday 20th November 8:45 pm
Parlour, G Staircase, Peterhouse

Roger Riddell is the author of ‘Does Foreign Aid Really Work’ (OUP 2008), Non-Executive Director of Oxford Policy Management, and a member of the Independent Advisory Committee on Development Impact. As a development and aid specialist with some 40 years’ experience including work as the International Director of Christian Aid and chair of the first Presidential Economic Commission of Independent Zimbabwe (1980-1981), he is well placed to provide an expert insight into the world of foreign aid.

‘The Green Challenges Ahead’ Jean Lambert MEP
Thursday 13th November 8:45 pm
Lubbock Room, Peterhouse

Co-hosted with Cambridge Young Greens in the Lubbock Room, Peterhouse.

Jean Lambert has been a Green Party MEP for London since 1999, and is currently the party’s Employment, Social Affairs and Pensions Spokesperson. She has been involved in numerous European Committees, including those on Employment & Social Affairs, Civil Liberties, & Disability & Gay and Lesbian Rights, and has served as Rapporteur on the Parliament’s Asylum Report. She is currently the Vice-President of the Greens/European Free Alliance Group of MEPs, as well as its Spokesperson on Asylum and Refugees. In 2005 she was named Justice & Human Rights MEP of the year.

‘What future for the EU and UK?' Olivier Evans & Andrew Duff
Thursday 23rd October 8:45 pm
Parlour, G Staircase, Peterhouse

Olivier Evans is a diplomat who most recently worked as a speechwriter for President Jose Barroso. After studying at Peterhouse and the LSE, Evans joined the FCO and has served as, amongst others, Europe Adviser and Head of Caribbean, Central America and Mexico & EU Relations.

Andrew Duff is a former Liberal Democrat MEP (1999-2014), president of the Union of European Federalists (UEF), and a prolific author and editor on European integration. With particular expertise on Turkish affairs, he is a founding member of the European Council on Foreign Relations, a pan-European think tank.

Annual Dinner with Sir Christopher Meyer
Thursday 1st May 8:00 pm
Combination Room, Peterhouse

This year’s annual dinner will be held in the beautiful ambience of the Combination Room at Peterhouse on the evening of Thursday, May 1st. After a champagne reception and a three-course meal, there will be a short after-dinner address by Sir Christopher Meyer, former British ambassador to the United States and Germany and currently Honorary President of this society.

The price of the dinner will be ca. £32 per head. The champagne and wine are kindly sponsored by the Master, Professor Adrian Dixon, and the Senior Tutor/Dean, the Rev. Dr Stephen Hampton.

If you are interested in attending, please email president@peterhousepolitics.co.uk, specifying your name, college, and crsid (if applicable) by Sunday, April 20th.

Rhys Moore: ‘The Living Wage – from a grassroots campaign to the political mainstream (though Cambridge University is still not paying it).’
Thursday 27th February 8:30 pm
Peterhouse Parlour

Rhys Moore is Director of the Living Wage Foundation, a member organisation of the civil society campaigning group Citizens UK. He joined the latter in 2010 to help
establish the Living Wage Foundation, which was launched as a national initiative in 2011. Since then, the Foundation has accredited over 170 employers, with the result of putting a total of ca. £200 million into the pockets of tens of thousands of low paid workers every year. He studied law at Cambridge and has a Master’s Degree in Political Theory from The University of Wales, Aberystwyth.

Neal Lawson: 'Are we living in New Times and what does it mean for the left?’
Tuesday 18th February 8:30 pm
Peterhouse Parlour

A regular contributor to The Guardian and the New Statesman, Neal Lawson also appears on television and the radio as a political commentator on equality, democracy, and the future of the left. He is managing editor of the progressive policy journal Renewal as well as chair of the pressure group Compass, whose goal is a more equal and democratic society. Mr Lawson is the editor, author, and co-author of a number of publications, including Dare More Democracy, The Advertising Effect, and the book All Consuming. Besides his engagement to policy research and debate, he has worked for the Transport and General Workers' Union and as an advisor to Gordon Brown.

David Runciman: ‘Political disengagement: causes and consequences.’
Wednesday 12th February 7:30 pm
Co-hosted with the Cambridge Hub at the Latimer Room, Clare College.

Professor David Runciman will be joining us to discuss the reasons for disillusionment with current politics and to address the question whether there are any alternatives to our present political system. David Runciman is Professor of Politics and Senior Lecturer at Cambridge University's department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS). He is the author of works including The Confidence Trap: A History of Democracy in Crisis from the First World War to the Present, The Politics of Good Intentions and Political Hypocrisy. He writes for several publications, including the London Review of Books, the Independent and the New Statesman, and is currently director of the project 'Conspiracy and Democracy'.

Simon Mayall: ‘The long spring: change and continuity in the Middle East.’
Tuesday 21st January 8:30 pm
Peterhouse Parlour

Lieutenant General Simon Mayall CB is currently Defence Senior Adviser for the Middle East at the Ministry of Defence. This followed from a distinguished military career during which he served overseas in a number of countries, ranging from Oman to Kosovo and Iraq. In the years leading up to his present position at the MOD, General Mayall held a series of high-level posts, including Deputy Commanding General of the Multi-National Corps in Iraq, Assistant Chief of the General Staff, and Deputy Chief of the Defence Staff. Being keenly interested in the history and politics of the Middle East, he has written several articles on crusading history, Turkey, jihad philosophy, as well a book on Turkish security policy during a Defence Fellowship at St Antony’s College, Oxford.

Nick Pickles: 'The Internet: Mass Surveillance by Default?'
Tuesday 26th November 8:30 pm
Peterhouse Parlour

Nick Pickles is Director of the civil liberties pressure group Big Brother Watch. A candidate in the 2010 General Election, Nick stood against Yvette Cooper, achieving a 12.5% swing to the Conservatives. He has remained a commentator on a wide variety of issues, including digital privacy and web-blocking, freedom of speech, civil liberties, and terrorism legislation. Since joining Big Brother Watch, he has become one of the UK’s leading voices on privacy and civil liberties, and has given oral evidence to Parliament’s Joint Committee on the Draft Communications Data Bill.

Paul Wallace: 'Is the Euro Crisis Over?'
Thursday 14th November 8:30 pm
Peterhouse Parlour

Paul Wallace is currently European Economics Editor at The Economist and has previously served as Britain Economics Editor for the same paper. Before Mr Wallace joined The Economist in 2000, he had been Economics Editor at the Independent and a producer and presenter of television programmes on the economy and business for the BBC, Channel 4, and ITV. He is the author of Agequake, which investigates the causes and effects of population ageing, and co-author of The Square Mile, which examines the City of London's financial revolution in the 1980s. Mr Wallace is also a council member of the Royal Economic Society and a regularly guest on news channels, including the BBC and CNBC amongst others.

Brendan Simms: 'Europe: German Problems and Anglo-American Solutions.'
Tuesday 22nd October 8:30 pm
Peterhouse Parlour

A history fellow of Peterhouse, Brendan Simms is also Professor in the History of International Relations at POLIS (Department of Politics and International Studies), University of Cambridge. His publications include Unfinest Hour: Britain and the Destruction of Bosnia (2001), Three Victories and a Defeat: The Rise and Fall of the First British Empire, 1714-1783 (2007), and most recently, Europe: The Struggle for Supremacy, 1453 to the Present (2013). Apart from his work as an historian, Professor Simms is keenly engaged in contemporary politics. A well-known proponent of liberal interventionism and European integration, he is co-president of The Henry Jackson Society as well as president of the Munich-
based Project for Democratic Union.

Annual Dinner with Jason Cowley
Thursday 2nd May 8:30 am
Peterhouse Parlour

Jason Cowley is the editor of the New Statesman. He formally worked for The Observer and edited the literacy magazine, Granta. He has won and been nominated for multiple awards in his capacity as editor of the New Statesman and his talk to the society will focus on the role of political weeklies in the current media environment.

Peter Hennessy -
Thursday 28th February 7:00 am
Peterhouse Parlour

Peter Hennessy is the Attlee professor of contemporary British history at Queen Mary, University of London. As well as numerous TV appearances in documentaries and election coverage professor Hennessy has written numerous highly regarded books, including The Prime Minister; Never Had it so Good: A History of Britain in the 1950; The Secret State; and most recently, Distilling the Frenzy: Writing the History of One's Own Times'. His talk to the society will focus on "The Condition of British Politics".

Roger Scruton - "If you're not on the Left, where are you?"
Thursday 21st February 8:30 pm
Peterhouse Parlour

Roger Scruton is a philosopher and writer who specialises in aesthetics. A research fellow at Peterhouse, Cambridge, in 1969
he has since lectured as a professor of aesthetics at Birkbeck College and since 1992 he has held part-time positions at Boston University, the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C., and the University of St Andrews. He also founded Claridge Press and helped found The Salisbury Review.

Outside of his career as a philosopher and writer, Scruton was involved in the establishment of underground universities and academic networks in Soviet-controlled Central Europe during the Cold War, and he has received a number of awards for his efforts in this area.

Peter Hitchens: "The Myth of the 'Good War' In Influencing British Foreign Policy, 1945-Present"
Tuesday 22nd January 8:30 pm
Peterhouse Parlour

Peter Hitchens is a writer and broadcaster, with a current weekly column in The Mail on Sunday. He has worked as a Labour reporter, Parliamentary correspondent and Foreign Correspondent, in which capacity he has reported from over 60 countries. His Talk to the society will focus on how British policy makers have encouraged and cultivated a ‘Churchill Cult’ and distorted view of Britain’s role in the Second World War for current policy ends.

Annual Dinner, Baroness Warnock: "The Position of the House of Lords within Parliament"
Thursday 3rd May 12:00 am
Combination Room

Baroness Warnock is a prominent philosopher of morality, education and mind, and writer on existentialism. Appointed a life peer in 1985 as Baroness Warnock of Weeke, in the City of Winchester she sits in the House of Lords as a crossbencher.

Ambassador of Colombia, HE Mauricio Rodríguez Múnera
Wednesday 29th February 8:45 pm
Peterhouse Parlour

The current Ambassador of Colombia to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and NorthernIreland since October 2009. He is the founder and former director of Portafolio, Colombia’s most prominent economic and financial newspaper and was founder and host of the weekly television programme “Sala de redacción” (Newsroom). Mauricio Rodríguez is also a former President and Professor of several of Colombia’s most prominent academic institutions. He is also the author of six books on management, economics and leadership.

Lord David Owen
Wednesday 22nd February 8:45 am
Lubbock Room

David Owen was a Member of Parliament for Plymouth for 26 years from 1966-92. Under Labour Governments, he served as Navy Minister, Health Minister and Foreign Secretary. He was co-founder of the Social Democratic Party and its Leader from 1983-87 and 1988-90. He now sits on the House of Lords.

 

Sir Crispin Tickell "Thinking differently: Out of the Box and into the Future"
Tuesday 24th January 8:45 pm
Peterhouse Parlour

A leading diplomat, Sir Crispin Tickell has served as Chef de Cabinet to the President of the European Commission, British Ambassador to Mexico, Permanent Secretary of the Overseas Development Administration and British Ambassador to the United Nations and Permanent Representative on the UN Security Council. He is internationally respected for having a strong grasp of science policy issues and is very influential in Britain with regard to environmental policy.

Tony Benn
Wednesday 16th November 8:45 pm
Lubbock Room

Tony Benn is a Labour Party Politician, former MP, Cabinet minister and current President of the Stop the War Coalition. Described by some as Britain's foremost Socialist, his political career has spanned half a century.

 

Michael White
Thursday 10th November 8:45 am
Lubbock Room

Michael White is assistant editor for the Guardian. He has been with the paper for more than 30 years, as a reporter, foreign correspondent and columnist. He was political editor from 1990-2006, having previously been the paper's Washington correspondent (1984-88) and parliamentary sketchwriter (1977-84).

 

Philip Blond: "Where next for the Big Society?"
Tuesday 1st November 8:45 pm
Peterhouse Parlour

Philip Blond is an internationally recognised political thinker and social and economic commentator. He is the director and founder of the award winning public policy think tank ResPublica and an academic, journalist and author.

 

Ben Brown
Tuesday 25th October 8:45 pm
Peterhouse Parlour

Ben Brown is an experienced war correspondent and presenter for the BBC. He has reported extensively on major foreign events, including the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Gulf War, the collapse of Communism in Russia and the break up of Yugoslavia, for which his reporting won several awards. More recently, he has covered the unrest in Libya and the Arab Spring.

Dr. Julian Huppert MP "Politics and the Press: The New Politics: Working in Coalition"
Friday 4th March 8:45 pm
Peterhouse Parlour

Dr. Julian Huppert is the Liberal Democrat MP for Cambridge, as well as a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge.


 

Lord Black of Brentwood:
Tuesday 22nd February 8:45 am
Peterhouse Parlour

Lord Black is the Executive Director of the Telegraph Media Group, as well as the Chairman of the Press Standards Board of Finance.


 

Sir Richard Dearlove: "The Impact of Terrorism on National Security"
Wednesday 26th January 8:45 pm
Peterhouse Parlour

Sir Richard Dearlove was head of the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) from 1999 until 2004, and is now the Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge.

Shami Chakrabarti: "Rights & Freedoms in Modern Britain"
Wednesday 19th January 8:45 pm
Peterhouse Parlour

Shami Chakrabarti has been the Director of Liberty (The National Council for Civil Liberties) since September 2003. Shami first joined Liberty in September 2001 as In-House Counsel. She became heavily involved in its engagement with the "War on Terror" and with the defence and promotion of human rights and values in Parliament, the Courts and wider society.

A Barrister by background, she was called to the Bar in 1994 and worked as a lawyer in the Home Office from 1996-2001 for Governments of both persuasions.

She is also Chancellor of Oxford Brookes University, a Governor of the London Sschool of Economics and the British Film Institute, and a visiting Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford and a Master of the Bench of Middle Temple.

Shirin Shafaie: "Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran (CASMII)"
Wednesday 1st December 8:45 pm
Peterhouse Parlour

Shirin Shafaie is a Representative of CASMII. She is also a PhD student and the President of Research Students' Society at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) and a Teaching Fellow at the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy (CISD).

Prof. John Sloboda: "Civilian Casualties: The Unacceptable Cost of Modern Warfare"
Thursday 11th November 8:45 am
Peterhouse Parlour

Prof. Sloboda is the co-founder of the Iraq Body Count Project, as well as the Director of the Recording Casualties of Armed Conflict programme at the Oxford Research Group.

 

Stuart Laing: "Shifting Sands: Security and Stability in the Gulf"
Tuesday 26th October 8:45 pm
Peterhouse Parlour

Mr. Laing is currently the Master of Corpus Christi College. Prior to that, he held several offices in the Diplomatic Service, including Ambassador to Kuwait, Ambassador to Oman, and Deputy Ambassador to Saudi Arabia.

 

Annual Dinner 2010 & Election Night Event
Thursday 6th May 12:00 am
Combination Room

Peterhouse Politics Society invites you its 2010 Annual Dinner & Election Night Event, with special guest Prof. Andrew Gamble (talk entitled "Election blues").

Prof. Gamble is currently the head of the Cambridge department of Politics and International Studies. He has written widely on a range of political issues, and is co-editor of the journal "The Political Quarterly". In 2005, he was awarded the Sir Isaiah Berlin Award for Lifetime Contribution to Political Studies by the PSA.

The Election Debate 2010
Tuesday 20th April 12:00 am
Lubbock Room

Peterhouse Politics Society invites you to an election debate between prospective parliamentary candidates for Cambridge:

Nick Hillman, Conservatives
Julian Huppert, Liberal Democrats
Tony Juniper, Green
Daniel Zeichner, Labour

Nick Harvey: "Afghanistan: lessons learnt and moving forwards"
Wednesday 24th February 12:00 am
Peterhouse Parlour

Harvey is the Liberal Democrat MP for North Devon, a position he has held since 1992. He is currently the Liberal Democrat Spokesperson for defence.

Oliver Letwin: "Time for change"
Wednesday 10th February 8:45 pm
Peterhouse Parlour

Letwin is the Conservative MP for West Dorset. He is currently Chairman of the Conservative Research and Chairman of the Conservative Party's Policy Review. He has formerly been the Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer.

Sir Hilary Synnott: "Pakistan: how did it come to this?"
Wednesday 3rd February 12:00 am
Peterhouse Parlour

Sir Synnott has been the Deputy High Commissioner to India (1993-1996), the British High Commissioner to Pakistan (2000-2003), and the Regional Co-ordinator in Southern Iraq (2003-2004). He is currently at the International Institute for Strategic Studies.

Shailesh Vara MP: "A reformed parliament for the 21st century"
Tuesday 17th November 12:00 am
Peterhouse Parlour

Vara is the MP for North-West Cambridgeshire and the Shadow Deputy Leader of the House.

Esther McVey: "The changing face of politics"
Wednesday 11th November 12:00 am
Peterhouse Parlour

McVey is a former GMTV presenter. She is the Conservative party candidate for Wirral West. Click here to read her comments on her visit to Peterhouse.

Sir Christopher Hum: "Emerging from global crisis: where does China stand?"
Tuesday 3rd November 12:00 am
Peterhouse Parlour

Sir Hum is the Master of Gonville & Caius college, Cambridge. He is the former Ambassador to China.

Baroness Cox
Tuesday 13th October 12:00 am
Peterhouse Parlour

Baroness Cox is a cross-bench Lord with extensive experience in humanitarian work.

Thursday 1st January 1:00 am