Obituary: Lord Rees
The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
Obituary: Tax lawyer turned politician charged by Thatcher with cutting public spending
Lord Rees
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Lord Rees: Margaret Thatcher’s Chief Secretary to the Treasury
Times Online (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008
Peter Rees was Chief Secretary to the Treasury and Trade Minister in Margaret Thatcher’s first two terms in office. Alongside Nigel Lawson as Chancellor, Rees was at the centre of Thatcher’s moves to cut public spending. He was no stranger to controversy, voting against his own Government and drawing the ire of Labour ministers when in opposition.
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BBC should have fired Jonathan Ross, says Lord Rees-Mogg
Mirror.co.uk (Free subscription) | 22/11/2008
He told the Mirror that it seemed "absurd to the point of being indecent" for the Beeb to pay £18million for the Jonathan Ross product.
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Election time?
dalebassett.com (Free subscription) | 03/11/2008
Lord Rees-Mogg speculates in the Times today that a Labour win in Glenrothes on Thursday could prompt a snap general election.
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Hamilton, Madison, Jay, Oh My!
Wheat & Weeds (Free subscription) | 03/06/2008
Lord Rees-Mogg thinks Euro-Parliamentarians ought to read the Federalist papers . The American Constitution has succeeded in providing the US with a stable democratic framework that has survived the great changes of the past two centuries, including - in the 20th century - two world wars, a Cold War and a slump. The US Constitution is 221 years old.... [snip] Surely, Europe should be asking this question:...
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Another Great Depression?
normxxx ruminates... (Free subscription) | 03/06/2008
Are We Facing Another Great Depression? By William Rees-Mogg | 15 April 2008 As the IMF releases a frankly gloomy world economic outlook, veteran luminary of broadcasting and media, Lord Rees-Mogg asks if we are facing an economic threat similar to that of the 1930s. Could the world be on the brink of another Great Depression such as the slump of the early Thirties? The managing director of the International...
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Are we facing another Great Depression? Great read!
Prophecy Fellowship Forums (Free subscription) | 27/05/2008
I love these articles written by brits! They are always so much more hoenst then our US media. SO what are your current feelings on the economy? Heres the read.. As the IMF releases a frankly gloomy world economic outlook, veteran luminary of broadcasting and media, Lord Rees-Mogg asks if we are...
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NULLIUS IN VERBA : Lord Rees Replies
ADAMANT (Free subscription) | 13/05/2008
Lord Rees , the President of The Royal Society, has taken issue with my Wall Street Journal article last criticizing the Society's attempt to defund critics of its climate policy. Here it is. His reply follows. ......Nullius In Verba By RUSSELL SEITZ In 1663, a group of savants formed a London club to discuss "useful knowledge." John Milton's "Areopagitica" was...
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Today: 0820 Rhetoric 20 Feb 08
Radio 4 - Today (Free subscription) | 20/02/2008
Barack Obama's speeches have brought the art of rhetoric back to centre stage but does a good speaker make a good leader? We speak to historian Andrew Roberts and journalist Lord Rees Mogg.
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Lord Rees-Mogg's article in the Mail on Sunday
John Hemming's Web Log (Free subscription) | 13/02/2008
THERE are extreme occasions on which public law and private conscience collide. Some of them, as in the cases of Socrates or Charles I, end in martyrdom. Some lead to imprisonment, though it is a terrible thing to imprison a man for doing what he believes is his duty.Almost invariably, this collision of law and private duty tends to discredit the law and the judges concerned.No one now defends the...
