The Covid lockdowns turned Boris Johnson into Oliver Cromwell, making him only the second British leader to have cancelled Christmas, Conservative leadership candidate James Cleverly has said.
Today's puritanical gloom feels reminiscent of the dreary days of Cromwell, sighs a bored Joanna Gray. But like Charles II, we too will one day toss aside our scolds and party like it's 1660!
Scotland Yard has included the Cenotaph as well as the statues of Winston Churchill, Horatio Nelson, Earl Mountbatten and Oliver Cromwell on a list of ‘contentious’ monuments.
