Jeremy Corbyn has been compared to plenty of people over the past few months — a geography teacher, Michael Foot, Brian from the Monty Python film — but my favourite comparison was to a horse. Steve Fielding, professor of politics at Nottingham, declared Corbyn’s election ‘an act of political stupidity unparalleled since Caligula appointed his horse to the Roman senate’.
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Tom Holland is a historian; his books include In the Shadow of the Sword, Persian Fire and, most recently, Dynasty, about Roman emperors.
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