Arena of Ambition

With a foreword by HRH the Prince of Wales, this is an instructive and entertaining history of the Cambridge Union by a former President who has now working in the Conservative Central Office and who will no doubt emerge as an MP, as have so many of his predecessors. The Prince recalls speaking in a debate that 'This house believes that technological advance threatens individuality of man and is becoming his master', a theme to which he has often returned. Cambridge graduates will find the book of special sentimental interest, while the general reader will be entertained by the many recollections by prominent public figures such as Douglas Hurd, Sir John Nott, Michael Howard, Norman Lamont and Arianna Huffington. An appendix gives a complete list of officers since 1815, among which one finds many distinguished names in many fields other than politics, including Bishop Barnes and the philosopher Henry Sidgwick.