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The final straw in Jacob Rees-Mogg interview

Jacob Rees-Mogg
Jacob Rees-Mogg. ‘I realised that he has indeed lost touch with reality,’ says one reader. Photograph: Yves Salmon/The Guardian

I thought I would encounter a fair degree of cant and hypocrisy in the interview with Jacob Rees‑Mogg (Jacob Rees-Mogg on abortion, religion and reality TV: ‘I’ve been called worse than a Nazi’, 18 November), but was prepared to put my misgivings aside and read the whole article. I could cope with his twisting of scripture and the fact that he wants the tenets of the Catholic faith to apply to others and not to himself. However, I realised that he has indeed lost touch with reality when I got to the part where he believes that “Boris Johnson … is a truthful man”.
Stan Broadwell
Redfield, Bristol

• Jacob Rees-Mogg says: “I was actually called worse than a Nazi.” Was he called “working class”?
Dave Verguson
Lindley, Huddersfield

• Many recent discoveries of Roman artefacts have been deemed by historians to be sex-related (Gladiator knife handle found in Tyne ‘reflects spread of Roman celebrity culture’, 15 November). I wonder if the Romans were sex-obsessed – or if the historians are.
Cherry Weston
Wolverhampton

• I was surprised to see that the Met Office had issued a cold weather warning on X (UK weather: Met Office issues woolly jumpers alert as Arctic blast arrives, 17 November). Of all organisations, surely our iconic weather forecaster should be leading the transfer to Bluesky.
Stephen Chicken
Swinton, Scottish Borders

• Elon Musk spent $200m to help get Donald Trump elected (Elon Musk’s Super Pac spent $200m to help elect Donald Trump, 12 November). To keep matters fair, shouldn’t all the other president-elect picks go to the highest bidder?
Patrick Sheehy
London

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