“Manly men… have been hunted to extinction in the British Isles,” claims Mr Oliver, who regrets the decline of the “stiff upper lip” among today’s boys.
He has written a book , Amazing Tales for Making Men Out of Boys, which revives historic acts of bravery from the Battle of Thermopylae to Robert F Scott's expedition to the South Pole.
Do you agree that Britain suffers from a dearth of ‘manly men’? How have male role models changed in recent years? Which public figures in modern Britain should boys aspire to?