I enjoyed Meet the Rees-Moggs - and I’m ashamed

Meet the Rees-Moggs is toothless, vapid, and not really fair on the kids

This documentary about the life of the former Tory MP fails to challenge him in any serious way, and is instead a portrait of a curious, attention-seeking family

I enjoyed Meet the Rees-Moggs - and I’m ashamed

At last, an answer to the question “how does Jacob Rees-Mogg sleep at night?” Completely still, under a crucifix, leaving the bed looking like nobody’s slept in it, “as if in a tomb”. Sheets and blankets – no duvet. Usually after a dinner of something like gammon and mashed potatoes and cabbage served by candlelight and a service at his own barn chapel, at which he treasures a splinter from the crown of thorns and hair from the shirt of St Thoma…

The torture of Meet the Rees-Moggs

For reasons best known to myself, I decided to watch the first episode of Meet The Rees-Moggs not in the privacy of my own home, but with the crowd attending the official launch of the reality series at Warner Bros HQ in London (Warner is the owner of Discovery+, which is streaming the show). In a way, this was a mistake. At home, I would have been able to step away for minutes at a time, the better to despair and self-medicate. But on the plus …