The history books are spattered with more than their fair share of sadistic, cruel and, indeed, horrifically hapless leaders, each seemingly more grotesque than the last as we trundle through the trousers of recorded time.
And, no, I’m not having a sly dig at – what some people might see as – the shameless and shambolic hierarchy of our own sceptred isle, as that’s been done to death. Instead, I refer to one of the most reviled, debauched and feckless leaders that history ever spat out: Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus himself – often better known as Emperor Nero of Rome.
