Favourite newspaper/magazine columnist?

[pilchardman]

i don't use upper case on the boards - that's stylistic; but they misspelt words, which is entirely without style

'Pilchardman' indeed

My name doesn't have a capital; theirs do.

 

[DaveCinzano]

My name doesn't have a capital; theirs do.

that makes no sense

 

[Jambooboo]

Julie Burchill.

Zoe Williams too.

 

[Orang Utan]

misanthropy

Twat

 

[silentNate]

Charlie Brooker- all others are rubbish...

Lucy Mangan is the worst, occasionally funny but tends to write endless articles of fluff- when will the Gruaniad will sack her?

 

[potential]

rod liddle
generaly amusing
quote in 2days times
i can think of no greater insult in todays society than
to be called a racist, although i read last week that the sun editor
rebekah wade was described as " a friend of max clifford "
which must run it pretty close.

 

[chegrimandi]

and sue arnold's pretty decent on radio...

alix sharkey used to have a readable (if coked-up) column in the indy, and jacques peretti's clubless club column in the guide was marvellous, till the editors seemed to notice that, erm, there were no clubs (only took about 5 years)

until

 

[DaveCinzano]

until

the day i take lessons on the english language off you is the day after the world ends

 

[binka]

i like matthew norman's media diary in the independent on mondays. most columnists are absolutley terrible tho.

 

[chegrimandi]

the day i take lessons on the english language off you is the day after the world ends

don't worry krs, the world won't end if you admit you were wrong......

p.s please stop bullying me...

 

[DaveCinzano]

why, whatchoo gonna do? report me?

 

[Orang Utan]

why, whatchoo gonna do?

What are you going to do?

 

[Orang Utan]

i don't use upper case on the boards - that's stylistic

No, it's not - it's wrong - using upper case is not an option you know, it's obligatory

 

[DaveCinzano]

No, it's not - it's wrong - using upper case is not an option you know, it's obligatory

only in the same way as ending a sentence with an appropriate piece of punctuation

 

[basher t]

Recommendations in so far (apologies if i've missed anyone out):

Charlie Brooker's TV column in the guardian guide,
Stephen Armstrong in the Media Guardian
Sarah Kent in Time Out
Jim Shelley
Sue Carol
Norman Johnson
whoever does 'Literary Review' in Private Eye.
Armando Iannucci makes the Torygraph
NANCY BANKS-SMITH!
sue arnold
Julie Burchill.
Zoe Williams.
rod liddle
matthew norman's media diary


I suppose there are two types of columnist:
a) the vacuous 'Polly Filler' do fuck all, talk shite type and...
b) the insiders or experts (like say Andrew Rawnsley in The Observer) who actually do seem to know a lot about the area they're writing on.

Any more good examples of type b?

 

[maximilian ping]

i know i'm getting old when i prefer the alexander chancellor in the guardian mag on saturday to zoe williams thing, the bit for 20/30 somethings, next to it