Public lecture by Baroness Williams of Crosby, former Leader of the Liberal Democrats in the House of Lords and Professor Emeritus of Elective Politics at Harvard University. This lecture was held at St Edmund's College on Friday 26 June 2015 as part of the Themed Lecture Series: 'Ethical Standards in Public Life' co-sponsored by the Von Hugel Institute, Cambridge, St Mary’s University Twickenham and Las Casas Institute, Blackfriars, Oxford. Weblink: http://www.vhi.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk/events/lecture-series2014-15/lecture2-2015