I gave a lecture on Tuesday. “So what”, I hear you cry. Well, it is my job; but this one was actually fun, because I got to talk for an hour about my favourite artist, the dazzling star of the Florentine Renaissance, the one, the only Donatello. Thing is, it was a terrible lecture. It …
‘A good and virtuous nature may recoil in an imperial charge’ Macbeth IV.iii, 18-19. It’s easy to be critical of people in leadership. We’ve all had a boss we can’t stand, an insufferable manager or a selfish captain. We are endlessly confronted in the news by politicians who have been caught fiddling their expenses or …