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Quentin Letts

The unbearable pointlessness of Parliament

Quentin Letts 15 December 2018 9:00 am

Westminster activity is unceasing – and mostly worthless

Jeremy Corbyn’s economic policies might sound daft – but he radiates rebellion. Photo: Getty

Corbyn dares to be different – why don’t other MPs?

Quentin Letts 22 September 2018 9:00 am

Where are the politicians who dare to be different?

Racism and the RSC: why I was a sitting duck for the arts mob

Quentin Letts 21 April 2018 9:00 am

Our ducks are back. Two wild mallard have spent the last five springs on the brook which gurgles past us…

The Establishment of 2018: a guide

Quentin Letts 16 December 2017 9:00 am

  Old establishment New establishment Order of the Garter BBC Sports Personality of the Year Parliament’s Woolsack The Supreme Court…

Order, order! In the Commons, you are where you sit

Quentin Letts 16 December 2017 9:00 am

Parliament-watchers discern plenty about your political leanings from where you park your posterior

‘Our children are horrified’: on the campaign doorstep in Wrexham

Quentin Letts 20 May 2017 9:00 am

Meet the lifelong Labour voters who are turning to the Tories

The 75 most annoying people of 2016

Quentin Letts 10 December 2016 9:00 am

Irritations of the year

What makes a cad (and why this was such a good year for them)

Quentin Letts 12 December 2015 9:00 am

From Lord Sewel to – let’s not be sexist – Sally Bercow, there’s life in the old rogue yet

Quentin Letts’s Diary: An apology to the BBC journos who, thanks to me, are being sent away for re-education

Quentin Letts 5 December 2015 9:00 am

First, an apology. Thanks to me, all journalists at BBC Radio’s ethics and religion division are being sent for indoctrination…

I know just the vicar for my parish church. Pity he’s fictional

Quentin Letts 21 March 2015 9:00 am

I know just the man my parish church needs. Unfortunately he’s Catholic – and fictional

The charming little airport that ruins thousands of holidays

Quentin Letts 10 January 2015 9:00 am

The charming little airport that ruins thousands of skiing holidays

Quentin Letts: Why hymns are the true voice of England

Quentin Letts 14 December 2013 9:00 am

In praise of hymn-singing

Diary

Quentin Letts 16 March 2013 9:00 am

The week starts with a bang — literally — when my 1986 Land-Rover explodes, mid-gear change: CLANK and the exhaust…

A speech for Europe

Quentin Letts 15 September 2012 9:00 am

What the EU president should have said in his 'State of the Union' address

Easing made easy

Quentin Letts 21 July 2012 6:00 am

How to sound confident when the conversation  turns to financial magic

‘I am in charge’

Quentin Letts 17 March 2012 7:00 pm

Sir Jeremy Heywood is the man who really runs the country

Me for DG

Quentin Letts 18 February 2012 3:00 pm

A manifesto for the BBC’s top job

What I really, really want

Quentin Letts 17 December 2011 12:00 am

Dear Father Christmas, please fill my stocking with the following goodies:   A referendum on Britain’s future in Europe… Or,…

Diary

Quentin Letts 26 November 2011 3:00 pm

Nine years ago we moved to Herefordshire from Gloucestershire, where lovely Jilly Cooper was a neighbour. There is less bedhopping…

How to play the big day

Quentin Letts 23 April 2011 12:00 am

Preserving your street cred during the royal wedding

Slippery Jack

Quentin Letts 16 April 2011 12:00 am

A mad, muscular Sally Bercow cavorts on the Commons chair, diminutive husband on her knee, his features impish.

Talk like an Egyptian

Quentin Letts 5 February 2011 12:00 am

How to become an expert in time for your dinner party

O come all ye faithless

Quentin Letts 18 December 2010 12:00 am

The Christmas sermon that your vicar might prefer to deliver

A perfect spad: young Cameron was as guided as a Navy missile

Quentin Letts 9 October 2010 12:00 am

My wife, a keen gardener, has a cold-frame forcing pen. It contains privileged seedlings which, thus sheltered, are hardened off before planting. These are the star blooms of seasons to come.

No earthly good

Quentin Letts 21 April 2010 12:00 am

Peter Hitchens writes a stern column most weeks in the Mail on Sunday.

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