Jacob Rees-Mogg

My P.G. Wodehouse summer

12 July 2025 9:00 am

Normally I model myself on one of the more retiring of the Desert Fathers, as much as a man living…

The worst thing about losing my seat

13 July 2024 9:00 am

Magpies have long been thought to be birds of omen. I am not superstitious. Yet during the election campaign I…

Shamima Begum shouldn’t have lost her British citizenship

25 February 2024 1:41 am

Parliamentary sovereignty is the bedrock of the constitution, and the courts ought to accept it, even when bad laws are…

Diary

29 October 2022 9:00 am

After the shale gas vote, I was literally sent to Coventry – to visit the UK Battery Industrialisation Centre. It…

Jacob Rees-Mogg: I’m prejudiced against the Oxford comma

10 August 2019 9:00 am

It is rare that losing a day at Lord’s for a Test match is welcome. I had expected to be…

Jacob Rees-Mogg: Why Boris Johnson would make a good leader (and I wouldn’t)

24 November 2018 9:00 am

‘Away with the cant of “measures not men”! — the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the…