Michele Hanson: kind, clever, eccentric and sweary

Guardian columnist, who has died aged 75, showed compassion for the disadvantaged and vulnerable on and off the page

Michele Hanson’s sudden death (she would have had no time for eggshelly words like “passing”) has been a profound shock to all her colleagues at the Guardian, her readers and, most of all, those who loved her. Since the news broke on Saturday, many readers who did not have the privilege to know her well have said that they felt as though they did. “She was VIVID”, one acquaintance of hers wrote to me, and that was the exact word for her.

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