Journalists and columnists you admire.

[Ayahuasca]

I know they are not the same thing, but close enough.

Daniel Finkelstein in the The Times.

Sensible, rational, intelligent, insightful. Always good to read.

[SCEtoAUX]

Richard Littlejohn.

[glenrobbo]

Jonathan Pie.

[TwigtheWonderkid]

Marina Hyde in The Guardian. So funny.

[David_M]

TwigtheWonderkid said:

Marina Hyde in The Guardian. So funny.

Her columns are absolute genius - highlight of the week.

[sociopath]

Rita Skeeter

[MC Bodge]

Daniel Finkelstein
Marina Hyde
Matthew Parris

[TwigtheWonderkid]

David_M said:

TwigtheWonderkid said:

Marina Hyde in The Guardian. So funny.

Her columns are absolute genius - highlight of the week.

She has a brilliant turn of phrase, reminds me of Charlie Brooker.

[basherX]

Janet Daley in the Sunday Telegraph is good

[Cliftonite]

Ian Hislop.

[KingNothing]

Can; none, be an answer?

[Truckosaurus]

Phil Hammond ('MD' in Private Eye).

[Johnnytheboy]

Quentin Letts (political sketch writer in the Times).

I'd sacrifice a limb to be able to write that consistently humorously.

Janet Daly (columnist in the Telegraph).

Cuts through a topic to its core like a scalpel.

[dxg]

Sherelle Jacobs from the Telegraph.

Weekly column, full of deep insight and usually offering a counterpoint to the prevailing view. Excellent research, thought and writing.

[AAGR]

I admire Sir Max Hastings - anywhere, on whatever subject he chooses.

On the other side of the coin, I can't be doing with Matthew Parris, who I think is so 'wet' that I almost have to dry The Times in front of a fire before I even approach his stuff.

Edited by AAGR on Tuesday 27th April 21:38

[MC Bodge]

Interesting, as I listed Matthew Parris as somebody I enjoy reading.

I often feel the need to wash my hands throughly after reading Simon Heffer and some other columns in my in-laws' Telegraph!

[Johnnytheboy]

MC Bodge said:

I often feel the need to wash my hands throughly after reading Simon Heffer and some other columns in my in-laws' Telegraph!

Yes, but this about people you adrime.

Not people you somewhat predictably don't.

[coppernorks]

Rod Liddle , not frightened to stir up the brown stuff.

Calling a person who menstruates a Woman?

pfft, he ain't getting an invite to the LGBT tombola and truffle hunt this year.

[AC43]

Chris Hope from the Telegraph - although more for his podcasts than his written output. Good interviewer, interesting guests.

[MrBarry123]

glenrobbo said:

Jonathan Pie.