Archive - Letters from an Englishman by Jacob Rees-Mogg

What the Mandelson papers reveal

Sir Keir Starmer made the decision to appoint Peter Mandelson as Ambassador to the United States and then ensured that a process was followed to fulfil…

18 hrs ago • Jacob Rees-Mogg

12:59

New series: How our laws are made

Part I: How it all began

Mar 10 • Jacob Rees-Mogg

10:33

Who ought to decide when we go to war?

In recent decades, and especially since the Iraq War, there has been much debate over who, in the British Constitution, ought to have authority over…

Mar 6 • Jacob Rees-Mogg

16:41

The Special Relationship

Sadly, Keir Starmer does not seem to understand its importance

Mar 4 • Jacob Rees-Mogg

14:03

February 2026

Live with Jacob R-M

A recording from Jacob Rees-Mogg's live video

Feb 28 • Jacob Rees-Mogg

42:19

The Line of Succession

It would be a surprisingly normal constitutional event to exclude Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor from the line of succession.

Feb 25 • Jacob Rees-Mogg

15:24

Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh

Foreign Secretary who ensured Europe was at peace for a hundred years

Feb 20 • Jacob Rees-Mogg

15:58

Announcing 'Mogg Unbuttoned'

A series of live events this Spring

Feb 19 • Jacob Rees-Mogg

1:04

We must not realign with the EU

Watch now | Re-integration would condemn the UK to a future of managed decline

Feb 14 • Jacob Rees-Mogg

13:50

The Fallout from the Mandelson Scandal

What constitutional powers are available to a Prime Minister on the verge of losing office?

Feb 7 • Jacob Rees-Mogg

12:51

Policing – where diversity is a good thing

In the television programme The Young Morse, which I much enjoyed, the process of amalgamating the Oxford Police into the Thames Valley Police takes…

Feb 2 • Jacob Rees-Mogg

January 2026

Should MPs who switch parties call a by-election?

If they do not, is Reform genuinely rejecting the 'old ways'?

Jan 27 • Jacob Rees-Mogg

15:02

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