fluff, trash, chewing gum for the mind, horoscopes, Hollyoaks and whore-gazing

– from pop-bitch to hot-pix our student media landscape is littered with tabloid fare that we routinely use to provide pleasurable punctuation to our busy lives.

But when we look to our media for honest reflections of our own intelligence, it suddenly becomes elusive, rolling over without a word.

Clare has been produced at LSE since nineteen-oh-five. In the early days ribald cartoons by Spike Milligan would face off against Bertrand Russell’s geopolitics.

Relaunching after a thirty year absence, Clare looks to provide more of the same, in a marketplace where more of the same is something appetisingly different.

Clare functions as a journal in its contribution to academic thought, providing a platform for LSE students to be published alongside globally recognised academics.

It is a review, where art and culture mingle, an intervention in the increasingly trashy landscape of student media, providing debate and commentary, original artwork and graphics, surrounding us with the liveliest and most listenable voices of our generation.

If you want to be involved in upholding the intellectual heritage of LSE, to get yourself published or to join the team in any capacity, email us at

su.claremarketreview [at] lse.ac.uk

rebranded and relaunched,

CLARE IS BACK