Showing posts with label Jacob Rees-Mogg. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jacob Rees-Mogg. Show all posts
Monday, December 09, 2024

Private Eye's Literary Review: "A 17-year-old writing in his public school's magazine 50 years ago"

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As I usually point out before criticising Private Eye, to establish my credentials, I have bought every issue of the magazine since I went t...
Monday, April 29, 2024

Jacob Rees-Mogg was hidden from voters during the 2019 general election campaign

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The prime minister's critics in the Conservative Party, reports the Telegraph , know what he needs to do: Tory critics are urging Rishi ...
Monday, December 18, 2023

PC Bodger's finest hour: The opening of Chew Valley Lake

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Writing about my mother's stories of the Somerset Constabulary in the 1950s, and of one PC Bodger in particular, the other day, I said:...
Wednesday, September 13, 2023

Electoral Commission: Hundreds of thousands face exclusion over voter ID laws

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It may have lost our data , but the Electoral Commission has found some balls. Here's the Guardian on the commission's new Report o...
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Saturday, May 27, 2023

My first column for the Journal of Critical Psychology, Counselling and Psychotherapy

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I am told this column appeared in the Winter 2022 issue of the JCPCP , possibly under the title Sighcology. Henry VI founded Eton to provide...
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Tuesday, May 16, 2023

The Joy of Six 1132

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Robert Hutton has been to the National Conservatism Conference: "The country is in a terrible mess, and Rees-Mogg is just trying to fi...
Tuesday, October 25, 2022

St Crispin's Day and why John Arlott was the greatest commentator

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Today, 25 October, is the feast day of the twin saints St Crispin and St Crispinian. Jacob Rees-Mogg couldn't resist dating his resignat...
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Jacob Rees-Mogg will not be in the new cabinet, but he was in the first series of 24

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It sounds as though Jacob Rees-Mogg will not feature in Rishi Sunak's first cabinet, which suggests our new prime minister has better j...
Friday, August 26, 2022

Jacob Rees-Mogg's schooldays

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Watching Jacob Rees-Mogg lounging on the government front bench it was easy to imagine he way recreating his glory days at Eton. But, by all...
Monday, July 04, 2022

The House of Commons is falling down

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Embed from Getty Images  In fact the whole of the Palace of Westminster is. Here's Rowan Moore writing in The Observer yesterday: In ev...
Wednesday, February 23, 2022

Why is Jacob Rees-Mogg so fond of imperial measures?

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Embed from Getty Images Jacob Rees-Mogg's decision to launch a study of the economic benefits of reintroducing imperial units of measure...
Friday, January 22, 2021

The uselessness of Boris Johnson's cabinet is a feature not a bug

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Embed from Getty Images Ed Davey says Gavin Williamson is the worst education secretary in living memory. He's right, of course. But th...
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Thursday, December 17, 2020

Imagine being derailed with Jacob Rees-Mogg

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Photo from Network Rail Jacob Rees-Mogg's public personality is as carefully constructed as that of any film star. So lazy satirists who...
Friday, February 14, 2020

Six of the Best 909

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"Imagine the 8- and 12-year-old brother and sister who have found their place in a loving long-term foster family. Or the 16-year-old...
Friday, December 13, 2019

Six of the Best 899

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"We need an agenda that’s more like an unconference – an opportunity for us to have open discussions, big and small, about where we a...
Thursday, November 14, 2019

Lord Bonkers' Diary: The mint cake workers of Kendal

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Whether this is news from the past, present or future , you have to admit the old boy made the most of his time away from the Hall. Frid...
Friday, October 25, 2019

The public schools' greatest weakness is now the character of their old boys

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Britain’s public schools began as charities set up for the education of the poor. In the 19th century they squirmed their way out of that ob...
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Sunday, October 06, 2019

Ann Widdecombe looked old-fashioned in the 1990s but was really the future

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Embed from Getty Images How we used to laugh at Ann Widdecombe when she was a government minister! We didn't laugh at her politics, ...
Friday, September 06, 2019

Sir Nicholas Soames on Jacob Rees-Mogg

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Embed from Getty Images Over on The Times website you will find this gem: Sir Nicholas is more horrified by Jacob Rees-Mogg, the Common...
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Thursday, April 04, 2019

Six of the Best 860

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Eli Zaretsky examines the mass psychology of Brexit: "The best description I know of this mentality, Fintan O’Toole’s Heroic Failure...