The Dangerous Poison Behind Rees-Mogg’s Façade

It’s easy to get caught up in mocking Jacob Rees-Mogg. Many of us have done so but in doing so we can miss opportunities to expose something more sinister than his anachronistic pseudo-toff figures of speech, costumes and distractions.

The first time I set eyes on him was in 1999 when he was interviewed by ‘Ali G’ (another Oxbridge history graduate called Sacha Baron Cohen). That…