Simon Hoggart - parliamentary sketch writer for The Guardian.

From 1987 he was the newspaper's parliamentary sketch writer.

A politician might argue that sketch writers trivialise politics by reducing it to personalities.

A sketch writer might reply that politicians do a better job of that than any sketch writer could.

You might think that parliamentary sketch writers trivialise politics.

Hoggart then became the parliamentary sketch writer for The Guardian in 1993.

From 1999, she worked for The Times, initially as a parliamentary sketch writer, later as a columnist specialising in health and social policy.

I'm obviously still a sketch writer.

He worked as parliamentary sketch writer for The Times newspaper from 1988 to 2001.

He was a schoolteacher turned scribbler, known only in limited metropolitan circles as the parliamentary sketch writer for the Gentleman's Magazine.