Quentin Letts
@thequentinletts
Official account for Quentin Letts, parliamentary sketchwriter. New novel 'Nunc!' out in April 2025.
'Police found out his name from his senior bus pass' - the veritable sleuths! theguardian.com/world/2025/jul…
QUENTIN LETTS: There's something furtive about the Governor dailymail.co.uk/debate/article…
QUENTIN LETTS: At 4.25pm, 800 years of history drew to a close dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…
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. dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…
Percy Grainger's Green Bushes @BBCRadio3 perfect length (and jauntiness) for Saturday midday drive to the pub in Woolhope.
Times today has an obit of a not-uncontroversial accountant and, in the standfirst, gets his age wrong by a decade. Subs' joke, possibly.
QUENTIN LETTS: Minister's timid, blinky burbler's eyes darted around dailymail.co.uk/debate/article…
D-list minister, discussing votes at 16, yearns to 'suport young people in their leadership journeys'.
Trade questions in the Commons. Shadow minister pays tribe to. Orman Tebbit. Trade ministers Gareth Thomas and Douglas Alexander exchange eye-rolls.
QUENTIN LETTS: Kemi popped the PM's priggish pomposity dailymail.co.uk/columnists/art…
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.
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!
Exit Michael Toner, aged 81, v solid bloke, calm, sceptical, professional.
QUENTIN LETTS: Spade-like hands sent up applause from the public seats dailymail.co.uk/debate/article…
Editing on the @bbcsport cricket highlights is so jazzy, it leaves one seasick. Twenty per cent less whizziness, please, director.
Paul Foster (Lab, South Ribble) rolling his eyes and smirking while Sir D Davis describes IRA as psychopaths.
As MPs debate Northern Ireland veterans, it is the biggest turnout I have seen for a Westminster Hall debate. Gallery packed with berets.
Lab MPs heckling Tory MP John Lamont as he says it would be 'simply outrageous' to pay a six figure sum in compensation to Gerry Adams.