Christmas Irritant List - 2017

Another year to my accumulative calendar and I found fewer people really irritate me; perhaps growing older is making me tolerant?  I certainly notice that older correspondents from Northumberland wouldn’t say boo to a goose, even at Christmas, so perhaps I too shall mellow with time?  Not making the cut for technical non-compliance, Anna Soubry and her parliamentary cohort have move beyond the pale and, therefore, mere irritation.  Otherwise, awful Anna would have won outright which now leaves the bejewelled Lewis Hamilton the runaway winner! Lower in the list, it has been hard to separate the whole Channel 4 News team, so they will have to share the award for a second year.

Lewis Hamilton

Dominic Grieve

Nicky Morgan

Jon Snow and the entire C4 News Team except

Kristain Guru Murthy, (who remains in a class of his own)

Matthew Parris

Sam Allardyce

Jose Mourinho

Stephen Fry

Benedict Cumberbatch

Emma Thompson

Emma Watson

Claudia Winkleman

Sue Perkins

Any BBC reporter who ties his scarf “like that”