Quentin Letts
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Official account for Quentin Letts, parliamentary sketchwriter. New novel 'Nunc!' out in April 2025.
Herefordshire, England
Joined September 2015
Grumpy bishops infinitely preferable to wet ones. via @MailOnline.
dailymail.co.uk
A disgruntled bishop in a dressing gown (pictured) told a choir at a church concert to stop their 'terrible racket' and get out of his house.
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'Police found out his name from his senior bus pass' - the veritable sleuths!
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Jon Farley arrested under Terrorism Act at Leeds demonstration for holding sign making joke about Palestine Action ban
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QUENTIN LETTS: There's something furtive about the Governor
dailymail.co.uk
Bank managers are often thought stodgy presences. But as Andrew Bailey demonstrated at the treasury select committee, they are crazily optimistic loan sharks.
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QUENTIN LETTS: At 4.25pm, 800 years of history drew to a close
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Eight centuries of English history ended at 4.25pm when the House of Lords accepted that hereditary peers should be given the heave-ho.
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In my theatre-going days we critics never waited for the curtain call. By that tine we were running down the aisles, crouching, to make an early getaway to file the overnight review. So Chummy's little cameo would have gone unseen.
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Video footage shared on social media showed a brief tussle between the actor who unfurled the flag and a staff member who tried to take it off him.
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Percy Grainger's Green Bushes @BBCRadio3 perfect length (and jauntiness) for Saturday midday drive to the pub in Woolhope.
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Times today has an obit of a not-uncontroversial accountant and, in the standfirst, gets his age wrong by a decade. Subs' joke, possibly.
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QUENTIN LETTS: Minister's timid, blinky burbler's eyes darted around
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When politicians next go campaigning the youngsters will bait them relentlessly. Imagine the mockery when Sir Edward Davey tries asking sixth-formers for their votes. It's going to be a massacre.
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D-list minister, discussing votes at 16, yearns to 'suport young people in their leadership journeys'.
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Trade questions in the Commons. Shadow minister pays tribe to. Orman Tebbit. Trade ministers Gareth Thomas and Douglas Alexander exchange eye-rolls.
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QUENTIN LETTS: Kemi popped the PM's priggish pomposity
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That nasal quack. The sticky-up fringe. Drearily predictable evasions - 'working people...breakfast clubs...£22billion black hole'. Sir Keir Starmer was going through the PMQs motions again.
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One Chris Hinchliffe is among the four Labour MPs relieved of the whip for persistent rebellion. So persistent in his case that I am not sure I had ever noticed or heard of him. But will now look out for the fella with interest.
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Ed Miliband given a minor spanking by his Tory shadow Claire Coutinho for slagging her off as a no-show yesterday. She just told him she was on maternity leave. Shrivelling for a new man!.
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Exit Michael Toner, aged 81, v solid bloke, calm, sceptical, professional.
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QUENTIN LETTS: Spade-like hands sent up applause from the public seats
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Thirty old soldiers, many in berets, packed the public seats in Westminster Hall, the Commons off-shoot used for petition debates.
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Editing on the @bbcsport cricket highlights is so jazzy, it leaves one seasick. Twenty per cent less whizziness, please, director.
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Paul Foster (Lab, South Ribble) rolling his eyes and smirking while Sir D Davis describes IRA as psychopaths.
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As MPs debate Northern Ireland veterans, it is the biggest turnout I have seen for a Westminster Hall debate. Gallery packed with berets.
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