Talk:William Rees-Mogg

message: Hated the word "consensus"==Comment==
Wiki Mos -- Michael David 21:27, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: The article may be improved by following the WikiProject Biography 11 easy steps to producing at least a B article.-- Jreferee 22:51, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Wikipedia:WikiProject_Biography/Assessment#Class_parameter|Biography assessment rating]] comment 

message: Isn't he from a landowning family in Somerset? If so, this ought to be mentioned in the article.
Meltingpot (talk) 21:15, 3 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Background

message: I have quoted some of Lord Rees Mogg's remarks made in The Times, but cannot access the original articles, which would have appeared in April/May 2001. Millbanks (talk) 09:04, 23 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Countryman

message: "In The Benn Tapes, broadcast on the BBC in October 2007, Tony Benn claims that William Rees-Mogg had risen to the rank of sergeant during World War Two."
I have deleted the above statement from the article as it does not seem to be significant, and the source is not footnoted. Perhaps reinstate with a footnote, with an  explanation of why this is significant (is it due to Rees-Mogg's young age at achieving this rank?)  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.18.241.226 (talk) 06:47, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I think he was an RAF NCO, whether before or after going up to Oxford I couldn't say. I dare say his poor eyesight ruled out pilot training.Paulturtle (talk) 15:58, 12 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Deletion Note

message: Rees-Mogg is labelled as a Conservative in the Info Box, and certainly he has High Tory views. Also he once stood as a Conservative candidate, but that was a long time ago, and he now sits as a cross-bencher in the House of Lords. Millbanks (talk) 21:55, 2 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Politics

message: Please can we have a separate article for Annunziata Rees-Mogg. She's quite likely to be a member of Parliament within a few months.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ajs41 (talk • contribs) 03:10, 1 December 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Back in 2005 it was decided at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Annunziata Rees-Mogg that she was non notable - has her notability increased since?— Rod talk 08:27, 1 December 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: And again in 2009 at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Annunziata Rees-Mogg (2nd nomination).— Rod talk 16:20, 1 December 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Future history is banned in Wikipedia.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.180.182.155 (talk) 11:24, 7 December 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Incorrect, this isn't future history. She is a current candidate for election to the UK government and as such needs her own page. 80.4.202.8 (talk) 19:32, 8 December 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: It isn't future history.  It's present speculation.  Should everyone who is a candidate for election as an MP (one is not elected to government) have their own page?  In what sense is it a 'need'?  Do you have a personal interest in her?  Is she a very special person to you?  In spite of her name?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.176.45.163 (talk) 17:16, 18 July 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Annunziata Rees-Mogg

message: I think the section on the famous "Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel" needs revising. Currently the article says: "Rees-Mogg has asserted that his leader helped to get Jagger released on bail. This assertion is also made in the official history of The Times, and Jagger has described being handed the leader in his prison cell. However, none of this is true. The issue of The Times for 1 July, which includes the leader (available online in The Times archive), has a picture on page one of Jagger and Richards leaving prison on bail the previous day."
I'm not sure that Rees-Mogg has ever claimed his leader helped get Jagger released on bail (which did indeed occur the day before the leader was published). I believe He did claim it helped Jagger and Richards in their appeal (which was held on July 31st and saw their prison sentences thrown out and replaced with moderate fines). I think the article should be edited to reflect this more accurately but I'm struggling to find appropriate citations.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dsnmi (talk • contribs) 09:53, 11 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Who Breaks a Butterfly on a wheel 

message: There are many stories of William Rees-Mogg fidling expenses, and bribery in many of his public roles.
Can someone start compiling these stories on Rees-Mogg's corruption.
Like Jimmy Saville, many people lauded him, but there are lots of stories - anecdotal of him being a crook.
https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2013/jan/04/simon-hoggarts-week-fiscal-cliff-needles
William Rees-Mogg, who died last Saturday, is doubtless mourned by his family, though not in our house. When my father was on the arts council, headed by Rees-Mogg, he found the Tory peer arrogant, unimaginative and with an ego the size of the heliosphere. And at a time when the council was having to cut back, he used his official car for expensive, non-official duties, such as taking himself and his wife to his home in Somerset.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.224.32.138 (talk) 16:32, 26 June 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Background of being corrupt 

message: Can anyone provide a reference for an article that Rees-Mogg wrote pre 2000 saying that we would see African migration hitting Europe in the 21st Century? Thanks.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 31.87.122.139 (talk) 18:18, 12 July 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Did Rees-Mogg predict the African migration crisis? 

message: The link to the autobiography in the Telegraph, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/9770732/William-Rees-Mogg.html, is dead. NotYourFathersOldsmobile (talk) 07:40, 5 October 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dead links 

message: The COI tag, recently added by User:Mr_Xaero, apparently refers to the two July 3 edits by User:Thomas_Rees-Mogg. Those small changes simply update some information on the names of William Rees-Mogg's grandchildren. However, this user, who is presumably a family member, doesn't appear to have made any other changes. Unless there are additional edits of some concern, I'd suggest dropping the COI tag. Thoughts? jxm (talk) 16:08, 17 July 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: I removed the COI from the article. I made an assumption that the user, , was attempting to update the article further.  Clearly I was incorrect in this. — Mr Xaero  ☎️ 16:16, 17 July 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  COI? Maybe not too significant... 

message: It is erroneous he served as High Sheriff of Somerset from 1975 to 1978, though this may be based on a misreading of London Gazette citations. A check of the Gazette entry for 1975 shows the entries for each county show three names, these being the number of magistrates forwarded to the Queen for selection or 'pricking', the first name being the selected one. In 1975 he appears third. In 1978 the entries only show the selected, for which his name alone appears. High Sheriff is an annual appointment from among a number of magistrates from each county. It is therefore correct his term of office was from 1978 to 1979 as indicated by Wikipedia's list of Somerset's High Sheriffs.Cloptonson (talk) 21:45, 9 February 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Shrievalty of Somerset

message: By now his liberal attitude to drugs policy had led to his being mocked as "Mogadon Man"...
:I thought Mogadon Man was Geoffrey Howe because his oratory could send you to sleep. Valetude (talk) 17:10, 7 April 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: True, but I also seem to recall Private Eye using this moniker to describe William Rees-Mogg.--♦IanMacM♦ (talk to me) 17:20, 7 April 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mogadon Man? 

message: this line "having spent 5 months at Oxford he did not return in October as he was forced to give up his place to a disabled ex-serviceman" does not have a citation and the entire paragraph is only supported by his own autobiography. Considering how well that claim fits into certain political narratives, I don't think thats a good enough source to support such a statement. --jonas (talk) 21:52, 19 March 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: You are quite right, we need better sourcing for all the Oxford stuff. DuncanHill (talk) 22:02, 19 March 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't think you are going to get any until somebody writes a comprehensive biography of the man - published obituaries just tend to say that he went to Oxford, was Union President and got a Second. I don't see any basic reason to doubt what he writes, although it's possible he embellished a little in his memory, eg. his National Service might already have been pencilled in when he turned 18, and Oxford may have let him do a couple of terms as they had a temporary vacancy. Having said that, I had a Danish friend at University whose place lapsed because he did poorly in his exams and before he could do anything about it he got his callup papers for the Danish Army...Paulturtle (talk) 01:21, 22 March 2023 (UTC)

text: And I don't think it was written to "fit into" any "political narrative". There must have been lots of disabled ex servicemen around at the time, although my recollection is that there was some piece of wartime legislation about disabled rights which had assumed that there would be a lot more of them (probably the Disabled Persons Employment Act 1944 - not sure if that had any impact on an ex serviceman's right to go to University). As can be seen on this talk page, the section on his Oxford years seems to attract incessant interest, which may just mean that people actually read it.Paulturtle (talk) 01:38, 22 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Oxford