1. Early life

2. Career

3. Personal

4. Books

5. References

Early life

Clark was born in Worcester and brought up in East Kent, where he attended the Simon Langton Grammar School for Boys. He studied at Trinity Hall, Cambridge^[5]

Career

In 1989, Clark won The Spectator Young Writers Award, part of the prize for which – a lunch — he later claimed not to have received.^[6] He established himself as a freelance journalist, with his work appearing in The Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph, the Daily Express, the Daily Mail and The Mail on Sunday and The Times, where he frequently writes the Thunderer column. His work is strongly associated with libertarianism and free market economics, writing the "Banned Wagon"^[7] and "Globophobia" columns in The Spectator.^[8] In 2013, he was co-winner of the Bastiat Prize run by the Reason Foundation.^[9] He was also shortlisted for the prize in 2004.

In 2010, shortly before the general election, he co-wrote, with Neil O'Brien, The Renewal of Government, the manifesto of Policy Exchange, a think tank strongly associated with David Cameron.^[10] However, since then he has shown hostility towards Coalition policies; in a piece in The Times in March 2013, he accused the Chancellor, George Osborne, by means of a plan to underwrite £130 billion of mortgage debt, of forcing the taxpayer to take the same speculative risks which had caused the banking crisis.^[11]

In 2012, Clark's musical Shot at Dawn was performed as a workshop at the Etcetera Theatre in Camden. The musical was a success and was later restaged as a full scale professional production in 2014 at Upstairs at The Gatehouse and The Mumford Theatre, Cambridge.^[12] He also wrote, with Martin Coslett, The Perfect City, which was performed at the Etcetera Theatre in March 2013.^[13] In 2015, the musical Shot at Dawn was renamed The White Feather and performed at the Union Theatre in Southwark.^[14]

Personal

He lives in Reach, Cambridgeshire. In 2011 he was elected to be a member of the village's parish council.^[15]

Books

• {{cite book |first=Ross |last=Clark |title=Cambridgeshire (Pimlico County History Guides) |publisher=Pimlico |date=1996 |isbn=978-0712674676}}
• {{cite book |first=Ross |last=Clark |title=The Great Before: A Satire |publisher=Ross Clark |date=2005 |isbn=978-0955149900}}
• {{cite book |first=Ross |last=Clark |title=How to Label a Goat: The silly rules and regulations that are strangling Britain |publisher=Harriman House |date=2006 |isbn=978-1897597958 |url=http://www.harriman-house.com/book/view/594/current-affairs/ross-clark/how-to-label-a-goat/}}
• {{cite book |first=Ross |last=Clark |title=The Road to Southend Pier: One man's struggle against the Surveillance Society |publisher=Harriman House |date=2007 |isbn=978-1905641444 |edition=1st |url=http://www.harriman-house.com/book/view/64/current-affairs/ross-clark/the-road-to-southend-pier/}}
• {{cite book |first=Ross |last=Clark |title=The Road to Southend Pier: One man's struggle against the Surveillance Society |publisher=Encounter Books |date=2009 |isbn=978-1594032486 |edition=2nd}}
• {{cite book |first=Ross |last=Clark |title=A Broom Cupboard of One's Own: The housing crisis and how to solve it |publisher=Harriman House |date=2012 |isbn=978-0857192967 |format=eBook |url=http://www.harriman-house.com/book/view/337/property/ross-clark/a-broom-cupboard-of-ones-own/}}

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