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Quentin Letts, the Glossary

Quentin Richard Stephen Letts (born 6 February 1963) is an English journalist and theatre critic.^[1]

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Andrew Marr

Andrew William Stevenson Marr (born 31 July 1959) is a British journalist, author, broadcaster and presenter.

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Andrew Neil

Andrew Ferguson Neil (born 21 May 1949) is a British journalist and broadcaster who is chairman of The Spectator.

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Anglicanism is a Western Christian tradition which developed from the practices, liturgy, and identity of the Church of England following the English Reformation, in the context of the Protestant Reformation in Europe.

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Arts Council England

Arts Council England is an arm's length non-departmental public body of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England.

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BBC Radio 4

BBC Radio 4 is a British national radio station owned and operated by the BBC.

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BBC Trust

The BBC Trust was the governing body of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) between 2007 and 2017.

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Bellarmine University

Bellarmine University (BU) is a private Catholic university in Louisville, Kentucky.

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British people

British people or Britons, also known colloquially as Brits, are the citizens of the United Kingdom, the British Overseas Territories, and the Crown dependencies.

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Chris Bryant

Sir Christopher John Bryant (born 11 January 1962) is a British politician and former Anglican priest who has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Rhondda and Ogmore, and previously Rhondda, since 2001.

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Church of England

The Church of England (C of E) is the established Christian church in England and the Crown Dependencies.

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Cirencester

Cirencester (see below for more variations) is a market town in Gloucestershire, England, west of London.

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Classical archaeology

Classical archaeology is the archaeological investigation of the Mediterranean civilizations of Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome.

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Clement Crabbe

Clement Crabbe is the name of a fictitious columnist for the British Daily Mail newspaper. Quentin Letts and Clement Crabbe are daily Mail journalists.

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Climate change

In common usage, climate change describes global warming—the ongoing increase in global average temperature—and its effects on Earth's climate system.

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Colwall

Colwall is a civil parish in Herefordshire, England, situated on the border with Worcestershire, nestling on the western side of the Malvern Hills at the heart of the AONB.

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Constable & Robinson

Constable & Robinson Ltd. is an imprint of Little, Brown which publishes fiction and non-fiction books and ebooks.

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Daily Mail

The Daily Mail is a British daily middle-market tabloid newspaper published in London.

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David Hare (playwright)

Sir David Rippon Hare is an English playwright, screenwriter and theatre director.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Gloucestershire

Gloucestershire (abbreviated Glos.) is a ceremonial county in South West England.

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Gregory Doran

Sir Gregory Doran (born 24 November 1958) is an English director known for his Shakespearean work.

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Haileybury and Imperial Service College

Haileybury is an English co-educational public school (fee-charging boarding and day school for 11- to 18-year-olds) located in Hertford Heath, Hertfordshire.

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Harriet Harman

Harriet Ruth Harman (born 30 July 1950) is a British politician and solicitor who was a Member of Parliament (MP) for over 40 years, from 1982 to 2024, making her one of the longest-serving MPs in British history.

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Have I Got News for You

Have I Got News for You (HIGNFY) is a British television panel show, produced by Hat Trick Productions for the BBC, which premiered on 28 September 1990.

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Hereford Times

The Hereford Times is a weekly tabloid newspaper published every Thursday in Hereford, England.

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Herefordshire

Herefordshire is a ceremonial county in the West Midlands region of England.

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Hooray Henry

In British English slang, Hooray Henry or Hoorah Henry is a pejorative term, comparable to "toff", for an upper-middle class or upper class man who exudes loud-mouthed arrogance and an air of superiority, often flaunting his public school upbringing.

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Horse & Hound

Horse & Hound is the oldest equestrian weekly magazine of the United Kingdom.

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How Caple

How Caple is a village and civil parish in the English county of Herefordshire.

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James McArdle

James John McArdle (born 3 April 1989) is a Scottish actor.

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James McAvoy

James McAvoy (born 21 April 1979) is a Scottish actor.

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Jesus College, Cambridge

Jesus College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge.

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Jo Brand

Josephine Grace Brand (born 23 July 1957) is an English actress, comedian, presenter and writer.

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John Letts (publisher)

John Campbell Bonner Letts (18 November 1929 – 25 March 2006) was an English publisher, who founded the British Empire and Commonwealth Museum, was first chairman of National Heritage, and was instrumental in setting up the short-lived Earth Centre, Doncaster. Quentin Letts and John Letts (publisher) are people educated at Haileybury and Imperial Service College.

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Journalist

A journalist is a person who gathers information in the form of text, audio or pictures, processes it into a newsworthy form and disseminates it to the public.

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Kate Saunders

Katharine Mary Saunders (4 May 1960 – 21 April 2023) was an English writer, actress and journalist.

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Kentucky

Kentucky, officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a landlocked state in the Southeastern region of the United States.

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Leo Wringer

Leo Wringer is a British Shakespearean actor who has also performed in many television and film roles.

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Looking for JJ

Looking for JJ is a young adult novel by British author Anne Cassidy, first published in 2004.

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Lyn Gardner

Lyn Gardner is a British theatre critic, children's writer and journalist who contributes reviews and articles to The Stage, Stagedoor and has written for The Guardian. Quentin Letts and Lyn Gardner are British theatre critics.

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Malvern Hills

The Malvern Hills are in the English counties of Worcestershire, Herefordshire and a small area of northern Gloucestershire, dominating the surrounding countryside and the towns and villages of the district of Malvern.

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Mary Pix

Mary Pix (1666 – 17 May 1709) was an English novelist and playwright.

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Master of Arts (Oxford, Cambridge, and Dublin)

In the universities of Oxford, Cambridge, and Dublin, Bachelors of Arts are promoted to the degree of Master of Arts or Master in Arts (MA) on application after six or seven years as members of the university, including years as an undergraduate.

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Misogyny

Misogyny is hatred of, contempt for, or prejudice against women or girls.

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NatWest

National Westminster Bank, trading as NatWest, is a major retail and commercial bank in the United Kingdom based in London, England.

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New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

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News of the World

The News of the World was a weekly national "red top" tabloid newspaper published every Sunday in the United Kingdom from 1843 to 2011.

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Occupational safety and health

Occupational safety and health (OSH) or occupational health and safety (OHS) is a multidisciplinary field concerned with the safety, health, and welfare of people at work (i.e., while performing duties required by one's occupation).

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Ofcom

The Office of Communications, commonly known as Ofcom, is the government-approved regulatory and competition authority for the broadcasting, telecommunications and postal industries of the United Kingdom.

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Oliver Ford Davies

Oliver Robert Ford Davies (born 12 August 1939) is an English actor and writer, best known for his extensive theatre work, and to a broader audience for his role as Sio Bibble in Star Wars Episodes I to III.

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Oxford

Oxford is a city and non-metropolitan district in Oxfordshire, England, of which it is the county town.

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Panorama (British TV programme)

Panorama is a British current affairs documentary programme broadcast on the BBC.

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Paul Dacre

Paul Michael Dacre (born 14 November 1948) is an English journalist and the former long-serving editor of the British tabloid the Daily Mail. Quentin Letts and Paul Dacre are daily Mail journalists and English male journalists.

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Peer Gynt

Peer Gynt is a five-act play in verse written in 1867 by the Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen.

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Peter Wilby

Peter John Wilby (born 7 November 1944) is a British journalist and convicted sex offender.

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Political correctness

"Political correctness" (adjectivally "politically correct"; commonly abbreviated to P.C.) is a term used to describe language, policies, or measures that are intended to avoid offense or disadvantage to members of particular groups in society.

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Polly Toynbee

Mary Louisa "Polly" Toynbee (born 27 December 1946) is a British journalist and writer.

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Preparatory school (United Kingdom)

A preparatory school (or, shortened: prep school) in the United Kingdom is a fee-charging private primary school that caters for children up to approximately the age of 13.

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Robert Lindsay (actor)

Robert Lindsay Stevenson (born 13 December 1949), known professionally as Robert Lindsay, is an English actor.

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Roger Lewis (biographer)

Roger Lewis (born 26 February 1960) is a Welsh academic, biographer and journalist. Quentin Letts and Roger Lewis (biographer) are daily Mail journalists.

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Royal National Theatre

The Royal National Theatre of Great Britain, commonly known as the National Theatre (NT) within the UK and as the National Theatre of Great Britain internationally, is a performing arts venue and associated theatre company located in London, England.

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Royal Shakespeare Company

The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) is a major British theatre company, based in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England.

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Samuel West

Samuel Alexander Joseph West (born 19 June 1966) is an English actor, theatre director and narrator.

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Stephen Glover (columnist)

Stephen Glover (born 13 January 1952) is a British journalist and columnist for the Daily Mail. Quentin Letts and Stephen Glover (columnist) are daily Mail journalists.

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The Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph, known online and elsewhere as The Telegraph, is a British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed in the United Kingdom and internationally.

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The Elms School, Colwall

The Elms School is a co-educational private boarding prep school located in Colwall, Herefordshire, England.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Independent

The Independent is a British online newspaper.

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The Mail on Sunday

The Mail on Sunday is a British conservative newspaper, published in a tabloid format.

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The Oldie

The Oldie is a British monthly magazine written for older people "as a light-hearted alternative to a press obsessed with youth and celebrity", according to its website.

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The Piranha

The Piranha is the official satirical newspaper of Trinity College Dublin.

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The Spectator

The Spectator is a weekly British news magazine focusing on politics, culture, and current affairs.

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The Times

The Times is a British daily national newspaper based in London.

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Theatre criticism

Theatre criticism is a genre of arts criticism, and the act of writing or speaking about the performing arts such as a play or opera.

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This Week (American TV program)

This Week, originally titled as This Week with David Brinkley and billed as This Week with George Stephanopoulos since 2012, is an American Sunday morning political affairs program airing on ABC.

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Today (BBC Radio 4)

Today, colloquially known as the Today programme, is BBC Radio 4's long-running morning news and current-affairs radio programme.

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Trinity College Dublin

Trinity College Dublin (Coláiste na Tríonóide), officially The College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin, is the sole constituent college of the University of Dublin, Ireland.

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Twitter

X, commonly referred to by its former name Twitter, is a social networking service.

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2017 Westminster sexual misconduct allegations

A series of allegations concerning the involvement of British politicians in cases of sexual harassment and assault arose in October and November 2017.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quentin_Letts

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See also

Bellarmine University alumni

English political journalists

People associated with Trinity College Dublin

References