A short but direct article by Peter Hitchens this week, claiming that Tony Blair is the most left-wing English leader since Oliver Cromwell.

There hasn't been such a Left-wing government since Oliver Cromwell died. The anti-English bias, the tyranny of political correctness, the semi-Marxist assault on the constitution, the project to tax the middle class out of existence, the unstoppable creation of non-jobs for Labour supporters in the public sector, the frenzied egalitarianism and promotion of dependency on the State - all will continue as before.

Will the Tory Party then finally realise what it is up against and stop trying to copy New Labour? Will the Labour Left realise how pleased they ought to be? Will the British people realise the danger they are in? I can only hope so.

Coincidentally, today is the birthday of Cromwell's secretary, John Milton, born on this day in 1608.