The Labour peer threatened Daily Mail sketch writer Quentin Letts with a libel suit after he called him «stupid» and suggested he only received his peerage because he was a television personality. (politics.co.uk)
«A disastrous joker round on Britain cost Times our defence of parliamentary pub quiz title,» lamented the paper's political sketch writer Patrick Kidd. (totalpolitics.com)
«As a term, it carries with it greater connotations of high - mindedness and other - worldliness than just «champagne socialists»,» Andrew Gimson, former political sketch writer for The Telegraph, tells me. (totalpolitics.com)