Sentences with phrase «sketch writer»
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.
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«A disastrous joker round on Britain cost Times our defence of parliamentary pub quiz title,» lamented the paper's political sketch writer Patrick Kidd.
«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.
But perhaps the best take was offered by Telegraph sketch writer Michael Deacon who was delighted to see that the former Labour leader had lost none of his unique gifts.
Telegraph sketch writer Michael Deacon reports that Lloyd Webber looked somewhat unhappy after his lengthy commute.
The Times sketch writer Patrick Kidd, wrote after Davis» Tuesday performance that «Brexit is proving to be a bit of a disaster» and Isabel Hardman wrote on the Spectator blog:
Eight years after his book on»50 People Who Buggered Up Britain», Daily Mail sketch writer Quentin Letts is back with a similarly rabble - rousing read.
Labour's conference in Brighton has been «echoing to the ghostly cries of spirits past», said sketch writer Quentin Letts.
Speaking of great conference speeches Simon Hoggart (p. 30) explores some of the greatest ones and explains why sketch writers love it when orators fluff their lines!
Not only do they provide some great material for sketch writers like Hoggart, but they also enjoy poking fun at themselves.
And should Sir Menzies Campbell become Liberal Democrat leader, it will be a gift to Westminster gossips and sketch writers everywhere.
Video: Guardian sketch writer Simon Hoggart speculates on what to expect from Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg's closing speech at the party's conference
Our parliamentary sketch writer recaps Westminster's twists and U-turns in 2015
It was such a happy event that sketch writers likened it to a civil partnership.
Or as parliamentary sketch writers have called him, «the honourable member for the early 20th century».
Celebrity atheists, greedy MPs, evangelicals falling from grace... the political sketch writer's first novel delights in its own stereotypes
Sketch writer Quentin Letts says the Tory conference «got off to a grotty start» as delegates gathered in Birmingham.
The sketch writers behind him start laughing, but his entourage remain stony - faced.
The doyen of the Press Gallery and Parliamentary Sketch Writers must be the Daily Mail's Quentin Letts.
About nine men sitting gravel faced behind him, flanked by every sketch writer in parliament.
After over a decade of being The Times» Parliamentary sketch writer, Ann Treneman — like John Major — decided to run away from the circus.
It started with words and mutterings and ended with a set of gestures — always tricky for sketch writers.
After over a decade of being The Times» Parliamentary sketch writer, Ann Treneman — like John Major...
«I expect that sort of language from the sketch writers of the Daily Mail, not from the chancellor of the exchequer.»
The Conservative conference «got off to a grotty start» as the delegates gathered in Birmingham, said the sketch writer Quentin Letts.
John Crace, our parliamentary sketch writer, recaps Westminster's twists and U-turns in 2015
The Daily Mail's political sketch writer, Quentin Letts, has said that the paper's claims that Ed Miliband's late father Ralph «hated Britain» are defendable.
The Daily Mail's political sketch writer, Quentin Letts, says the paper's claims that Ed Miliband's father Ralph «hated Britain» are defendable.