Oxford, said Matthew Arnold, was “the home of lost causes and forsaken beliefs”. Now Cambridge is giving it a run for its money.
Oxford’s chancellor election last year was widely billed as a two-horse race between the elder statesmen Lords Mandelson and Hague; the latter in the end won handily. They both had their hang-ups and lost causes too, of course, but they were also men who matter.
Fortunately for Gina Miller it is customary for Cambridge chancellors to be lacking in political acumen
Does Gina Miller – who in her latest attention-seeking stunt wants to be the next chancellor of Cambridge University – matter? She did once.
“I was the most hated woman in Britain”, Miller said in 2018; but things move swiftly, and the passions which attended the great Brexit debates of the late 2010s have largely faded away. Those passions, of course, brought Miller admirers, as well as haters.
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