Shakespeare’s greatest play? There’s only one contender
Forget Hamlet, Lear or Macbeth – the Bard saved his sharpest psychological insights and finest poetry for Richard II ...
Opinion
Sacred Mysteries: The prime minister who rehearsed for death
Death and Gladstone go together like love and marriage. Only sin had a stronger effect on his mind. As with most things Gladstonian, ironies break in, as when he, a rich beneficiary of West Indies ...