
Quentin Letts
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Gender | Male |
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Age | 62 |
Date of birth | February 6,1963 |
Zodiac sign | Aquarius |
Born | Cirencester |
United Kingdom | |
Spouse | Lois Rathbone |
Children | Claud Letts |
Eveleen Letts | |
Parents | Richard Letts |
Jocelyn Elizabeth | |
Job | Journalist |
Critic | |
Books | Patronising Bastards: How the Elites Betrayed Britain |
The Speaker's Wife | |
Letts Rip! | |
Bog-Standard Britain: How Mediocrity Ruined This Great Nation | |
50 People Who Buggered Up Britain | |
Alma mater | Bellarmine College |
Trinity College | |
Dublin | |
MA | |
Jesus College, Cambridge | |
Education | Haileybury and Imperial Service College |
Date of Reg. | |
Date of Upd. | |
ID | 423754 |
Quentin Letts Life story
Quentin Richard Stephen Letts is an English journalist and theatre critic. He has written for The Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday, and The Oldie. On 26 February 2019, it was announced that Letts would return to The Times.
Headlines: applause for coronavirus-NHS 'heroes' and 'Checkpoint Britain

... Quentin Letts, provides details of what was offered with his caring eyes and his soft, hissing voice ...
The Papers: Corbyn's Brexit 'neutrality' and 'Duke of nothing'

... Quentin Letts in the Times says it was a political version of the X Factor, although he acknowledges that BBC ratings managers must have been beating their heads in despair that the SNP s Nicola Sturgeon was second up in the two-hour show...
The Papers: 'Survival' and 'floundering' in election debate

... For Quentin Letts in, the event was unexpectedly good sport - pacy, a little chaotic , with an audience that deployed forced, supportive, mocking, occasionally disbelieving laughter as a weapon of attrition ...
The Papers: Businesses 'cut ties' with Prince Andrew

... Quentin Letts in The Times tickled little gaiety from the suits , while the Labour leader went down even worse ...
The Papers: 'The end of smear tests' and 'new voice' of the Commons

... Quentin Letts in says the voting was absurd: glacial waits between each knockout round for new ballot papers to be printed, quite possibly by William Caxton on wooden blocks ...
The Papers: 'Survival' and 'floundering' in election debate
There's plenty of analysis of Tuesday night's televised debate between Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn in the papers.
Paul Waugh, suggests Mr Johnson "undeniably had The Best of The First half of The Debate , when it was focused on Brexit".
He finds that there was "no knockout blow" in "this political boxing match", but that Mr Corbyn "won several rounds on points".
A similar analogy is employed by, which concludes that Mr Johnson "kept [Mr Corbyn] on The Ropes ". "the judges' scorecards would have edged the Prime Minister ", who, he says, delivered "an assured performance".
For Quentin Letts in, The Event was "unexpectedly Good Sport " - "pacy, a little chaotic", with an audience that "deployed forced, supportive, mocking, occasionally disbelieving laughter as a weapon of attrition". He declares the moderator, ITV's Julie Etchingham , the "clear winner".
In its editorial, to "the people posing questions from The Audience ". It accuses both men of showing "little humility" when addressing the issue of trust, "instead turning their answers back to their main attack lines on Brexit and the NHS".
James Forsyth for the Conservatives "will be the happier of the Two Sides " after what he regards as a "scrappy affair". He expresses surprise that Mr Corbyn "didn't try and move to rally Remainers to him", Making It harder to "squeeze down the Liberal Democrat vote".
it to have been "The Debate of the crooked glasses" for the Labour leader, while Mr Johnson, it insists, "showed a clarity of vision". that Mr Corbyn "dodged" questions about whether he would support Leave or Remain in a second Brexit referendum nine times.
Fact checkingthat "genuine fact checking services and journalists" were "appalled" when the Conservative Party press office changed a Twitter account to resemble a fact-checking organisation during The Debate , condemning it as "a disingenuous move to con people into believing it was an independent account".
Its coverage includes a tweet from the former Conservative chairwoman, Sayeeda Warsi, questioning why she "didn't get the memo" about the name change.
A spokesman for The Independent fact-checking charity Full Fact that it has reported it to Twitter, and questions whether the account should retain its blue tick verifying its authenticity.
Sees it as a "gross subversion of democracy". According to its Digital Culture writer Sarah Manavis, it is "a disinformation tactic that not even Donald Trump has stooped to" which "echoes Russian dissemination tricks" and was "executed. . with sinister intent".
'Pariah Prince'As it emerges that Prince Andrew has cancelled a planned visit to flood-hit villages in West Yorkshire , he has become the "pariah Prince" for his links to the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein .
Friends of The Duke of York he was "terrified about being booed by members of The Public ". The Paper says he was "summoned for crisis talks at Buckingham Palace " on Tuesday morning amid mounting pressure for him to step down from public duties.
Senior figures at the English National Ballet are to be "lobbying for The Duke to be removed as patron".
claims that his royal protection officers are being urged to release their notes of his whereabouts on The Night he denies having sex with one of Epstein's alleged victims.
Maternity 'tragedy'Several papers feature case studies of some of The Women affected by the maternity deaths at Shrewsbury and Telford NHS Trust. The Daily Mail condemns it as a "shameful tragedy" and reveals how its exposure of The Scandal was dismissed as "irresponsible" and. It calls for the culture of "obfuscation and cover-up" to "change immediately".
by The Failures , describing it as "the gravest maternity scandal in NHS history". It says "No One has carried The Can " for "dozens of babies and mothers dying unavoidably" through "40 Years of failure and epic incompetence", and adds that the "police must now step in".
Breast cancer drugsa study which has concluded that drugs commonly used to treat arthritis could help prevent the spread of breast cancer. It says researchers in Manchester and Sheffield found that the three drugs blocked the bone marrow from releasing a protein that helps cancerous cells to grow and make secondary tumours in bones.
A long slogIn what may be depressing news for many of us, a study by The Office for National Statistics, which has found that we should all work until we're 70. The Report says improvements to health and Life Expectancy mean Old Age no longer starts at 65.
Source of news: bbc.com