World Wide Mogg Blog

A personal dissection of key issues from the viewpoint of a very average, forty something, old Etonian Member of the Mother of Parliaments.

Saturday, 21 December 2013

A Very Rees-Mogg Christmas N to Z

Keen followers of this occasional "blog" will no doubt have noticed that I have left the remaining Christmas letters to th...

Monday, 16 December 2013

A Very Rees-Mogg Christmas: Avoid Brueghels on your cards (M is for Magi)

I confess that unlike W.H. Auden, I have never 'got on' with the Flemish masters. The poet (a Christ Church man) who later fou...

Saturday, 14 December 2013

K is for Good King Wenceslaus

Good King Wenceslaus I, the eldest son of the limp and erratic Vratislaus, was the King of Bohemia from 921 until 935, when he was m...

Thursday, 12 December 2013

A Very Rees-Mogg Christmas: J for "Jingle Bells"

I would rather you didn't. It frightens the horses.

Wednesday, 11 December 2013

Ban this filth: The Holly and the Ivy.

I confess that I set out to write the 'H' and 'I' segment of this series as a celebration of the old English song The ...

Monday, 9 December 2013

E, F and G are for Edwin Fermor-Garboldisham

Field-Marshall Sir Edwin Fermor-Garboldisham was a very odd man even by the standards of his eccentric and fascinating age. An exemplar...

Saturday, 7 December 2013

A Very Rees--Mogg Christmas D is for "Drummer Boy"

When I was a very small child I was taken one day to see a theatrical presentation of "The Sound of Music", the tale of a...

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Jake Rees-Mogg: As told to Otto Q. Categorically not the other one.

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