Digested week: Rees-Mogg thinks he’s Henry V but he’s more Mr Muscle

Jacob Rees-Mogg. ‘It’s curious to consider the size of the gap between self-image … and the dull thud of reality.’ Photograph: Christopher Thomond/The Guardian

Monday

The feast of St Crispin was removed from the calendar of the Catholic church in 1965 by Vatican II, but that’s no barrier to liturgical disruptor Jacob Rees-Mogg. This year the celebration of Saints Crispin and Crispinian falls on Tuesday 25 October and, one assumes, Rees-Mogg is already drafting his letter of resignation on Monday. The final article, sent the following day, is dated with the kind of whimsical flourish one has come to expect from the man: “St Crispin’s Day, 2022.”