Alexander Boot is a writer and critic based in London. He is the author of How the West Was Lost (London: I.B. Tauris, 2006). He writes regularly at his blog here.
A Real Conservative in the Cabinet
The new Leader of the Commons Jacob Rees-Mogg has reconfirmed his conservative credentials by issuing a short style manual to his staff. Mr Rees-Mogg wishes to expunge from office communications hackneyed words and phrases, illiterate punctuation, inappropriate forms of address, and sloppy writing in general. The only regrettable thing about this undertaking is that it should be necessary.