The writer or something of The Devil's Whore was on The Daily Politics, telling us all that Cromwell believed in "religious toleration" and "the separation of Church and State"! (You can't have both; but of that, another time.)
Is this an HBO co-production? I suspect so. The Americans are coming up to their annual celebration of the Puritans as heroes of these causes to which they were so violently opposed. But be warned - when it comes to Cromwell, good luck selling his heroism to America's richest ethnic group, the Irish.
Might the showing of The Devil's Whore in America even prompt some reconsideration there about precisely who and what the Puritans were, and were not? Or, indeed, about the attitude to Irish affairs of a country which pretends to have been founded by the Puritans, but which was in fact largely founded and very largely built by the Scots-Irish?
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