ABSTRACT
Being paid to rant as much as you like? Sounds like a dream job, doesn’t it! That’s exactly what happens if you’re a newspaper or magazine columnist. On some of the UK national papers, columnists are among the highest-paid journalists. And it’s not unknown for newspapers to ‘poach’ columnists from their competitors by waving a blank cheque at them. Over the past few years, newspapers and magazines have vied to sign up celebrity columnists, so you’ll often find TV presenters and MPs treating us to their views on life, the universe and everything.
