You might also enjoy Edward Foxall, a white establishment liberal and Japanophile who bodies Pauline Hanson a century before her rise.

This isn’t true. He was named Man of the Year as the most influential figure, but the cover literally portrays him playing a ‘hymn of hate’ in a cathedral decked with the bodies of his victims. It’s actually a case of traditional media doing its job and portraying dictators as the threat they are.

My undergrad lecturer, the late and much lamented Chris Jones once succinctly taught a lesson through three 16thC portraits: which of these three men is most confident in his power? It’s remarkable that Charles looks more like a merchant or lawyer than the most powerful man in the Atlantic world.

The funniest book of the nineties!