William Rees-Mogg
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Oct 22, 2026
Simon HefferGUEST
He was deliberately trying to provoke people.
Simon HefferGUEST
As I say in the book, he saw the editor of the Wolverhampton Express and Star a few days before he made the speech and said, I'm going to make a speech that's going to go up fizz like a rocket.
Simon HefferGUEST
The people he was trying to provoke were the shadow cabinet under Ted Heath because they would not listen to his concerns about the effects of large-scale migration into this country.
Simon HefferGUEST
And he quoted his constituents.
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Simon HefferGUEST
Hmm.
Winston MarshallHOST
Well, given your position then, I'd like to try and understand how it was that this speech ended up being as controversial as it was.
Winston MarshallHOST
I understand that the Times immediately came out, the editor at the time, William Rees-Mogg, father of Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg, Lord Rees-Mogg.
Winston MarshallHOST
He came out and they said it was evil and shameful and described it as an appeal to racial hatred.
Carl BenjaminHOST
Well, actually, the Conservative Party and the Conservative members love that they're being ruled over by female ethnic minorities.
Carl BenjaminHOST
But also, they have had a commitment to anti-racism for generations 'cause as Tim Stanley points out, Jacob Rees-Mogg's father led the charge against Enoch Powell.
DanHOST
Mm.
speaker_5SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
We were discussing just beforehand that some people since your interview with Tucker Carlson have been, uh, re-sharing, uh, a leader that your father, William Rees-Mogg, wrote when he was editor of The Times after the Enoch Powell Rivers of Blood speech, in which he said that it was an evil speech.
speaker_5SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And I was wondering, is this something that runs in your family, a commitment to opposing racism?
Carl BenjaminHOST
[laughs]
DanHOST
Um, yes, uh, I mean, um, when my father wrote the article, it was called Racialism.
DanHOST
It's, the word has slightly changed-
DarylHOST
So, um, y- you've started down a, a thread of we're heading towards feudalism, which, which kind of...
DarylHOST
I mean, thinking of what Mikey was saying a second ago, you know, this idea of the people at the top of the pyramid are, you know, "I'm g- I'm going to protect my position." And I'm thinking about the, the Rees-Mogg book, The Sovereign Individual, which is...
DarylHOST
Which feels like kind of a playbook for the, the, the tech oligarchs at the moment, um, that, yeah, seem to be engineering the system to work completely in their favor.
DarylHOST
I mean, is, is that the way that you see things?
Camilla TomineyHOST
[laughs]
Jacob Rees-MoggGUEST
I, I am definitely, definitely English on my father's father's father's father's side.
Jacob Rees-MoggGUEST
We've been muldering about in Somerset for hundreds of years and been a nice place to mulder away.
Jacob Rees-MoggGUEST
But my grandmother was, uh, American, my father's mother.
Jacob Rees-MoggGUEST
My, uh, mother's father was Welsh.
Jacob Rees-MoggGUEST
Um, you know, it, it becomes a ridiculous narrowness.
Tim StanleyHOST
Mm.
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Jacob Rees-MoggGUEST
Part of our intelligence network depends on, on Mossad, and there was a feeling, quite rightly in my view, after the war, that something needed to be done to help the Jewish people after what had happened to them during the war.
Greg CarrHOST
So this Nerd Reich, these artificial intelligence boys, they're really thinking about how can we extract even more value from people and control more of our material reality by controlling the virtual reality that has penetrated our minds we'll get into all that but the nerd right i'm just going to read very quickly from the dust jacket so y'all can understand why i think this book is so important uh the blurb says when silicon valley moves fast and breaks things the world interprets the chaos as a necessary cost of innovation Gil Duran reveals something far more sinister afoot, a decades-long campaign to replace elected governments with corporate rule.
Greg CarrHOST
There it is, drawing on insider political experience and new investigations, Duran traces this ideology from its philosophical roots in The Sovereign Individual by James Dale Davidson and Lord William Rees-Mogg.
Greg CarrHOST
He introduces its modern apostles, Peter Thiel, the owner of Junior Varsity Vans, Mark Anderson, Balaji Srivansan, and Elon Musk, and shows how the promise of technological liberation has transformed into a global moment, I'm sorry, a global movement for digital feudalism, powered by cryptocurrency, artificial intelligence, And algorithmically driven propaganda on social media.
Greg CarrHOST
That's why we care so much about how Jasmine Guy shows up in the world.
Brian Edwards-TeekertHOST
I don't know what to make of the fact that there's a purported Christian revival taking place in Silicon Valley elite circles, but I thought it would be worth kind of touching on some of the foundational texts in this rightward movement.
Brian Edwards-TeekertHOST
One of the first ones you describe is a book called The Sovereign Individual by James Dale Davidson and William Rees-Mogg.
Gil DuranGUEST
What is it? How does it think of the world and what does it prescribe? The Sovereign Individual was published in 1997.
Gil DuranGUEST
And it's been described as an apocalyptic business book.
speaker_0HOST
And to understand their intended destination, the Lincoln Project video points back to a prophetic text published in 1997.
speaker_1HOST
Titled The Sovereign Individual, written by James Dale Davidson and Lord William Rees-Mogg.
speaker_0HOST
This book is treated as a foundational blueprint within this movement, isn't it?
speaker_1HOST
Very much so.
Oli BettsHOST
Politically, it's popular, but with the public, it's not when it arrives, I don't think, is it?
Andrew McLeanGUEST
it isn't i mean it's interesting politically there's a lot of support and from all sides of the house as well um but not everywhere of course people look in their constituencies and say hold on my life's going you know this line that nobody uses is going um you know better speak up for the for for the constituents about that um so there's a bit of that and actually there's some quite positive and favorable fresh and press um reports of it as well so i mean uh William Rees-Mogg, the future editor of The Times, who's just a journalist in The Times at that point, he writes an article praising it.
Andrew McLeanGUEST
There's no alternative to beaching.
Andrew McLeanGUEST
This is a good thing.
Susan KokindaHOST
And many...
Susan KokindaHOST
And Barbara also had this thing from Lord William Rees-Mogg, you know, uh, stuffily sitting there in his, probably his castle, you know, saying, "Well, it's time for our young men to get ready to go to war." Uh, and, and I think this is the, the, the, the appropriate response to...
Susan KokindaHOST
If you're worried about war, you know, think about what, what the Europeans are trying to do, and, and I think this guy responds to it appropriately.
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