Grammar schooled

When it comes to grammatical pedantry, I'm often guilty as charged (in my defence, that is pretty much my job). But the list of rules that Jacob Rees-Mogg, newly annointed leader of the House of Commons, has sent to his staff is, like his recently published book The Victorians, "staggeringly silly".

Rees-Mogg has hardly come across as a man of the people before, but this just confirms his status as a pompous buffoon of the highest order (as well as being someone who holds genuinely repellent views). He's also wrong - both in spelling "full stop" as a single word and in insisting that there should be double spaces after every one. The latter practice is a hangover from the days of the typewriter and thus maintaining it now, in the digital age, is an archaic affectation. Much like Rees-Mogg himself, to be fair.

Mind you, outlawing commas after "and" is fair enough - what kind of savage does that? Unless, Jacob, you meant to ban the Oxford comma and cocked up the wording of your own rules...