Anyone who has stumbled on John Cleese’s X feed lately will have been in for a bit of a surprise. Where most A-listers use social media to witter on about ‘trans kids’, ICE or the latest cause célèbre, the Monty Python star has blazed an altogether different trail. Broadcasting to his 4.9million followers on X, Cleese has slammed Islamic sectarianism, blasted woke censorship and even quote tweeted a recent piece from spiked. Whisper it, but could Cleese be the ‘based’ national treasure Britain needs right now?
