There is a lot wrong with this, but there is one point that I do not know how I had never been noticed before.
The Young Fogeyism that Jacob Rees-Mogg embodies, and which has so clearly influenced Boris Johnson, was just a fashion subculture of their youth. There is nothing eternal or perennial about it. They may as well present themselves as punks, or goths, or New Romantics.
As Rafael Behr puts it, we have "Rees-Mogg, in fancy dress, strutting the parliamentary stage as if he has been there for centuries, although he was born a year after Kylie Minogue."
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