Who is your favourite columnist?

I think Grace Dent is great. I really like Gary Younge too but he's less light-hearted. I think his pieces written in the US before he returned to the UK are brilliant.

I like Bel Mooney in Saturday's Mail.

I do like Grace Dent, but I prefer Hadley Freeman. She's so down to earth and witty. I think she'll be back from maternity leave soon for the Weekend column.

I enjoyed Gary Younge's book about gun crime in the USA (Another Day in the Death of America). It was quite an eye opener.

Yes, I’d forgotten about Gary Younge.

I just love it when you see an article by a columnist you like and think ‘ooh goody!’

I used to enjoy Joan Smith's work a lot, and her occasional appearances on TV. Can't remember which newspapers she wrote for though

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I've just checked out Hadley Freeman's columns with a skim-read of subjects. I associated her with fashion which isn't a huge area of interest. Clearly I was wrong about the subjects she covered.

I like Jan Moir and Richard Littlejohn.

Littlejohn is brilliant at picking up on idiotic’you couldn’t make it up ‘ news items plus daft examples of political correctness.

I like John Crace's pieces in the Guardian.

Hunter Davies. I loved his wife's books, and I now love his dry humour.

I love Liz Jones, want to hug her and shake her all at the same time?

Liz Jones definitely makes me want to shake her.

I like Jan Moir, Hunter Davies, Alison Pearson and sometimes Janet Street Porter especially when she's not pulling any punches.

Marina Hyde, Simon Jenkins - his columns are always so elegantly constructed and well argued he makes you think whether you agree with him or not.

I used to love reading Alan Coren, so funny. Heavens, how long ago was that?

Marina Hyde is brilliant suziewoozie

I have to say as I’m a Leaver her column can make me feel a little uncomfortable .... but our Remain voting daughter insists that’s a GOOD THING.
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I loved Cassandra, back in the day.

These days, I enjoy Richard Littlejohn.

I like Jay Rayner’s restaurant reviews.
Marina Hyde.
Tim Downing always makes me smile ... and I enjoy Alison Graham in Radio Times.

Oh yes AG in the RT - great

I like Tom Uttley and Littlejohn. Used to love Lynda Lee Potter.

Julie Birchill was my favourite journalist many years ago.
what a powerful writer she was.

Me too for Tim Dowling

Julie Burchill has a weekly column now in the Telegraph valerieann

Melanie Reid and Ann Treneman both in the Times.

Melanie Reid was one of their chat about all sorts columnists till 2010 when she fell off her horse and broke her spine. She now writes about coping or not with life. Sometimes amusing, sometimes brings a lump to the throat.

Ann Treneman was theatre critic till recently, now writes interestingly and sometimes amusingly about life in Derbyshire not all that far from where I live.

Oh I love Nancy Banks-Smith but she rarely writes these days. Fair enough, she's earned a restful retirement, she must be well into her eighties now. Even if you have no idea about the programme she's writing about she's always very very funny.

...and Clive James. You know that poem he wrote about the tree in his garden and how it made him quite calm about his impending death and how it would be carrying on after he shuffled off this mortal coil? He's outlived it!

www.dyingmatters.org/page/clive-james-japanese-maple