The biggest blockbuster hit of the Elizabethan theatre was not by William Shakespeare or Christopher Marlowe or Ben Jonson.

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Flunked it again, unfortunately. Kemi Badenoch chose poor tactics at PMQs. She made flabby speeches instead of hitting the PM ...

The talented military historian Max Boot has published a well-researched life of Ronald Reagan that is fundamentally wrong.