Cambridge audience tickled pink by Dr M’s scintillating wit


CAMBRIDGE: The subject matter covered was not much different from the talk he delivered at Oxford Union in January, yet Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad kept the floor engaged with his wit and humour at the Cambridge Union.

The rumblings of a small group of protesters outside were soon drowned by the Prime Minister’s off-the-cuff speech inside the Cambridge Union Society hall on Sunday which took the audience from the British rule narrative to the present-day woes faced by the country and the world.

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