Fawning before a mad emperor
Keir Starmer at the court of Trump
John Hurt as Caligula receives the flattery of the Senate in BBC’s 1976 adaptation of I Claudius
The Roman historian Suetonius said of the mad emperor Caligula that he “added to the enormity of his crimes by the brutality of his language. He used to say that there was nothing in his own character which he admired and approved more highly than his shamele…
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