Chair: Laura Ryan
College: Downing
Subject: Neuroscience (PhD)
CRSid: lr477
Why I’m a liberal: “I’m a sceptic, and liberalism is the only avenue to any society that I would want to live in.”
Vice-Chair and Junior Treasurer: Laurence van Someren
College: St John’s
Subject: Maths
CRSid: alv36
Why I’m a liberal: “I’m a liberal because as a 10-year-old I had a crush on Nick Clegg and I’ve been too dogmatic to consider alternative viewpoints since then.”
Secretary: Sophie West
College: Christ’s
Subject: History and Politics
CRSid: srw65
Why I’m a liberal: “A unity of individual liberty and social justice, liberalism enshrines the freedom of one while ensuring it does not become the fetter of another. Ergo, when a Tory tornado rages and one’s house lands on the body of a failing opposition, the only option left is to don some liberal slippers and follow the yellow-brick road.”
Campaigns: Archie McCann
College: Catz
Subject: Engineering
CRSid: ajrm3
Why I’m a liberal: “Fundamental human rights are too important to be abandoned to rot under the Tories or Labour. Liberalism means extending every possible freedom to every individual in society, only restricting specific freedoms to achieve more or more equal freedom overall. For me, this means protecting the environment, human rights, and creating a more equitable society—that’s why I’m a Liberal.”
Social Events: Zoe Zhang
College: Caius
Subject: History and German
CRSid: zz429
Why I’m a liberal: “Because I believe firmly that to be human is to be free, due to the manner in which we are all made divinely simple by our individual construction of the forms of space and time which characterise all phenomenal reality, meaning that we cannot be conditioned from without—but also because of the day 8-year-old me set eyes on Nick Clegg for the first time.”
Speakers: Stella Mendes
College: Peterhouse
Subject: HSPS
CRSid: mss80
Why I’m a liberal: “I’m a liberal because I believe in making room for all voices, and like my discussions significantly spirited.”
Membership Development & Alumni: Joshan Parmar
College: Fitz
Subject: Maths
CRSid: jp862
Why I’m a liberal: “I joined the party on a whim two years ago and am now too invested to leave.”
Communications: Peter McLaughlin
College: Downing
Subject: Intellectual History and Political Thought (MPhil)
CRSid: pm664
Why I’m a liberal: “I am a liberal because liberal values—freedom of speech, democratic government, free trade and competitive markets, individuality, equal access to justice—are those that have consistently lifted human beings out of destitution and created human flourishing.”
Women’s: Helena Trenkić
College: Jesus
Subject: Modern European History (MPhil)
CRSid: ht394
Why I’m a liberal: “I believe in the fundamental rights to individual freedom and true equality before the law and in society, which no country has yet achieved. I joined as Women’s and Non-Binary Officer because political discussion only works when everybody contributes, and because that shift won’t come with a hands-off approach.”
Senior Treasurer: Eugenio Biagini
College: Sidney Sussex
Position: Professor of Modern and Contemporary History, History Faculty
CRSid: efb21
