Who is your favourite columnist?

Richard Littlejohn, and Jeremy Clarkson.

Hadley’s sort of the coolest friend I didn’t have growing up. I have heart eyes for her.

Marina’s turned absolutely savage in the past couple of years, I love her.

I’m absolutely loving Grace’s columns lately. Definitely the best part of weekend Guardian at the moment. Grace and Jay Rayner on any episode of Masterchef: The Professionals is glorious.

It used to be Bernard Levin, a marvellously ascerbic writer.

Then Lucy Kellaway who had me in fits of laughter.

I find a very good concentration of good columns in 'The Oldie' magazine. It arrives by post each month and I'm lost in reading it for hours! It's too good to put down. I bought it for light reading on a flight once and I've been a convert ever since.

I always forget about ‘The Oldie* Jane - does Virginia Ironside still have a column in it?

I enjoy Melanie Reid and Caitlin Moran in the Times and Sarah Vine and Amanda Patell in the Mail.

I too loved Alan Coren, Alima.

Alison Pearson and Judith Woods in the Telegraph. Also Janet Daley in Sunday's paper. Used to like Bryony Gordon, but have gone off her. Good for her and a huge well done for turning her life around, but I preferred her when she was naughty; she is much too self-righteous now.

Got to thinking about Lynda Lee Potter who used to be in the Mail Anannymous (love the name) and realised I have a cartoon from her column on my wall here in Spain! Those drawings that accompanied her column were instantly recognisable weren’t they? That Lynda fringe!

I cut the cartoon out of the newspaper - must be at least 15y ago now - and stuck it in a frame. I’ve taken a photo to share. Lynda’s sense of humour shines right through!

Janice Turner, The Times, India Knight, Camilla Long, Sarah Baxer, Rod Liddell, Dominic Lawson, Niall Ferguson all the Sunday Times. Many years ago I read Julie Burchill and found her very funny, but haven't read her lately. I also did like Matthew Parris until he wrote an unbelievably snooty piece in The Times about certain demographics who live in underprivileged areas, Jaywick Sands was the town he was particularly focusing on having just visited it and reported something along the lines of the residents there being "the left behinds" which was sad! but they weren't really worth bothering with. Went right off him

Thank you Urmstomgran for posting the cartoon. Happy memories. If I remember correctly LLP was a great advocate of always having a bottle of champagne in the fridge and I have tried to take her advice (well ok a bottle of Prosecco).

Ah yes! She always said ‘you never know when you’ll have cause for a celebration’ didn’t she? Funnily enough ... I do the same now.
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Melanie Reid, Ann Trenaman, Robert Crampton and Janice Turner.