The Gladstone Club is a forum which welcomes all those who wish to engage in political discussion and question the ideas and policies of the day. We are radical in the sense that we wish to penetrate the ‘roots’ of issues without the ties of party loyalty and political correctness. Members are drawn from across the political spectrum and are of all ages.
Forthcoming events...
Date:
18th February 2010
Subject:
Gladstone Club Annual New Year Dinner
Speaker:
Will Hutton
Venue:
National Liberal Club
Time:
7.15 pm
Details:
Acclaimed writer, broadcaster and independent thinker, economist, award-winning journalist, political commentator, author of the best selling The State We’re In (1995), The World We’re In (2002) and most recently The Writing on the Wall (2007) on China and the West in the 21st century; long time chief executive of The Work Foundation, Will Hutton addresses the Gladstone Club annual dinner on Thursday 7th January.
3 course dinner including wine & coffee
£35 members/ £40 non-members
Date:
26th April 2010
Subject:
A review of the Forthcoming election
Speaker:
Geoffrey Smith
Date:
21st June 2010
Subject:
Summer Party
Speaker:
Chris Huhne
Previous events...
Date:
14th December 2009
Subject:
A time for Virtue out of Necessity
Speaker:
Dr Euginio Biagini
Venue:
National Liberal Club
Time:
7pm-9pm
Details:
If there was ever a time when we needed to know what makes a William Ewart Gladstone, now is that time.
In a system undermined by misappropriation of political privilege, he was able to rise through it untainted and undeterred and reform it from within. Highly idealistic, deeply devout, yet able to build a consensus out of feuding factions; he could deliver a masterful critique of the history and principle of income tax, yet raise it to repair a disastrous deficit, and still grow in credibility and popularity.
But to get at the essence of a statesman you need a touch of it. That is why we are really delighted to have Dr Eugenio Biagini addressing us on Monday 14th December. Lecturer in Modern British History at the University of Cambridge, Dr. Biagini is among the world’s leading Gladstone scholars and gave the concluding keynote address at this year’s Gladstone Bicentenary Conference in Chester. Of the many biographies of Gladstone his is the most concise but also arguably the most profound.
Date:
26th June 2009
Subject:
Summer Party
Details:
The Gladstone Club celebrated the bicentenary of William Gladstone’s birth with jazz and Pimms on a warm summer evening on the terrace of the National Liberal Club. We were delighted to be joined by Newsnight’s political editor Michael Crick whose witty reflections on Gladstone and the political world today kept us all entertained.
