Local resident, author and columnist for the Daily Mail, Quentin Letts is delighted with the sales in the first few weeks since his latest book was released.
Mr Letts was the guest speaker at the Ross Gazette’s 150th anniversary event earlier this year, and was an entertaining speaker who struck a chord with many of those attending.
In his latest book, subtitled ‘How the elites betrayed Britain’, he aims to take faux-liberals down a peg or two. He takes a blistering view of the new ‘metropolitan elite’. He refers to them as the Islington PC Brigade and said they have taken the good intentions of political correctness, including being tolerant and have become very intolerant. He said you only have to look at the state of freedom of speech, especially in the country’s universities - “It is shocking”.
Mr Letts told the Ross Gazette that: “Living outside the M25, in Herefordshire means that I am more sane than many of those at Westminster.” And the book is not just about politics but also about culture.
He said he feels very strongly that what is happening in the art world, and said it is doing a great disservice to those truly talented artists who do not produce conceptual art. He said it has become, not a question of how talented you are, rather who you know.
Mr Letts, who lives at How Caple, near Ross-on-Wye, is already poised to deal with potential law suits regarding the content of Patronising Bastards (Little, Brown £16.99) but it is a highly entertaining read.
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