Reform Might be About to Wipe Out the Tories
3 May 2024
by Will Jones
News Round-Up
4 May 2024
by Toby Young
Boris Johnson liked to see himself as a modern day Winston Churchill, perhaps no more so than when he imposed the first Covid lockdown on March 23rd 2020. But in truth that was the day he failed history, says Neil Datson.
I spent last Saturday ‘guarding’ Churchill’s statue in Parliament Square in case it was assaulted by any masked protestors carrying spray cans and Palestinian flags. Things did not turn out as I expected.
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.
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