Nero competed in the four-horse chariot race using a 10-horse chariot; Trump also allegedly "cheats like hell"

In this month's brief encounter, the brain surgeon says we have to be optimistic about the future

In this month's duel, Cathy Rentzenbrink and James Ball go head-to-head

Addictive listening

From the ROH to glorious Glyndebourne

Works from Andrew Haigh, Michel Hazanavicius and Angelina Jolie

Performances "vast in musical scope and phantasmagorical imagination"

From the Old Vic to Liverpool Everyman

From Dulwich Gallery to the Yorkshire Sculpture Park