As we see a change of Poet Laureate, the panel on last week’s Any Questions - including the outgoing Laureate, Andrew Motion - were asked to explain the point of the role.

Have you ever heard the story of Emperor Norton? It’s one of those bizarre little curiosities of American history, the San Franciscan who declared himself Emperor of the United States (and sometime Protector of Mexico) in 1859 and remarkably found that many of the inhabitants of his home city accepted him as such. He never [...]

Would The Country accept a mixed-race monarch? Are we there yet?