Who is your favourite columnist?

Melanie Reid, Ann Trenaman, Robert Crampton and Janice Turner.

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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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).

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

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!

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Then Lucy Kellaway who had me in fits of laughter.

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.

Richard Littlejohn, and Jeremy Clarkson.

...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

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.

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.

Julie Burchill has a weekly column now in the Telegraph valerieann

Me too for Tim Dowling

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

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

Oh yes AG in the RT - great

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

I loved Cassandra, back in the day.

These days, I enjoy Richard Littlejohn.

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

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.