Our Chief of Men

Britain’s Independent has an interesting article on a new book on Oliver Cromwell — in my view the greatest Englishman who ever lived, and whose portrait, alongside that of Luther and the Protector’s son-in-law, Henry Ireton, hang on the Great Wall of the Regicides in the Dean’s office at Westminster — Luther qualifying because he beheaded the antichrist, of course.  The debate about Cromwell’s contribution — good or evil or something in between — continues 350 years after the great man died.  You can read it here.