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Dec 6, 20151 min read
Westminster Hour
On Radio 4's Westminster Hour, Charles and Professor Tim Bale discuss political leadership in the light of their recent collaboration on...
Dec 5, 20151 min read
Week in Westminster
In the week of the vote on airstrikes in Syria and Labour's victory in the Oldham by-election, Charles joins Jim Waterson of Buzzfeed to...
Nov 29, 20151 min read
The EU: Vital to Britain's Security
Six former home secretaries, including Charles Clarke, sent a letter to the Sunday Times making the case for Britain's continued...
Nov 27, 20151 min read
Nov 27, 20151 min read
What Does Political Leadership Take?
Following on from Charles' new series of books on British political leaders, the Cambridge News interviewed him on the subject of what it...
Nov 26, 20151 min read
Nov 23, 20151 min read
London, Paris and the Future of Communications
After the Paris attacks of November 2015, Charles Clarke discusses government responses to terrorism. The interview covers parallels with...
Nov 13, 20151 min read
The Challenge of Political Leadership Symposium
Held at Churchill College, Cambridge, Charles took part in a one-day event on leadership in the modern day. Discussions were held on...
Nov 9, 20151 min read
Who's Looking after the World?
Global instability and organised terror; mass flows of people across states; economic stagnation and environmental danger - the...
Nov 8, 20151 min read
Oct 27, 20151 min read
Podcast: Charles in the Cambridge Politics Department
As the University of Cambridge's Politics Department podcast returns for a mid-year special, Charles talked to Professor David Runciman...
Oct 8, 20151 min read
New Leader, Old Problems: Is 2020 Tory Victory Inevitable?
Speaking at the University of East Anglia, Charles explored the possible ways forward for Labour under Corbyn's leadership. He draws on...
Oct 8, 20151 min read
Local Government Needs a Unitary Revolution
Local authority structures are stuck in the twentieth-century, and have lost power to central government accordingly, Charles Clarke...
Sep 25, 20151 min read
Total Politics Reviews British Leaders
"Rigorous and satisfactory" is Total Politics' judgement on the Labour and Conservative volumes, edited by Charles. The books bring a new...
Sep 24, 20151 min read
The Independent Reviews British Labour Leaders
Gordon Brown gets a rough deal, concludes Andy McSmith, in his review of Charles' latest volume. That is the result of the innovative...
Sep 24, 20151 min read
Corbyn Is Safe - For Now
No convincing candidate nor programme exists for Labour moderates at the present time, argues Charles Clarke as he stresses the need for...
Sep 24, 20151 min read
Stop Apologising for Successful Policy, Clarke tells Corbyn
Charles takes aim at Jeremy Corbyn's apology for tuition fees in the Times Higher Education supplement. Click here to read the full text.
Sep 17, 20151 min read
"Successful Tory Leaders Become Champions of Moderate Reform"
Looking over the themes running through the new book on British Conservative Leaders, John Rentoul judges the marks of the successful...
Sep 13, 20151 min read
Corbyn's Labour Is on a Path to the Political Margins
The Labour Party's leadership race lacked a candidate of real change, which enabled Jeremy Corbyn's purity-over-power campaign to...
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