It can be hard being a columnist.

Sometimes there are so many different subjects to go on, you just don’t know which one to spout on about.

There’s Brexit and the question of Scottish independence.

Abroad there’s, Donald Trump’s dangerous and weird posturings a massive famine in southern Sudan and those thousands fleeing to Europe from war in the Middle East and trouble in Africa continue to risk their lives crossing the Mediterranean.

Back at home we’ve got serious troubles with our diminishing local services for health, the elderly and education and nationally we’ve got the new £1 coin.

There is plenty to go on and I don’t expect sympathy here.

But sometimes you just don’t know what to write about for the best.

Sarah Vine made headlines this week for her Daily Mail comments on the legs of Theresa May and Nicola Sturgeon.

They just happen to be the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and the First Minister of Scotland who met to discuss the worrying subject of another Scottish independence referendum.

Politics and the people involved are always fair game for a bit of fun and Sarah was quite right to wonder which lady had the nicest legs.

What a laugh!

Almost as funny as her husband Michael Gove, the Brad Pitt of politics, standing for the Conservative leadership.

I’m sure Sarah is a lovely person and has some really interesting ideas, but after seeing a photo of her, I can’t really take her that seriously because she’s just so, so phwoaaar!

I mean, Govey’s done well there eh?

In fact, they rival the Beckhams in the good looks stakes.

Just a bit of fun.

Then there’s rancid ramblings of Katie Hopkins who is like the small girl at the back of the party who no-one likes but who stamps her feet and shouts at the top of her voice ‘look at me, look at me!’.

She was interviewed on Mr Trump’s favourite news station Fox News last week and said Londoners were cowed and afraid in the wake of the Westminster terror attack, which sparked a series of comments and photos showing how people were just getting on with everyday life.

Tweedledum and tweedledummer.

The trouble with all these columnits is that some people take them seriously.

Some readers take what they say as fact, rather than an extreme and unbalanced opinion.

We’re heading in the same direction as America where the President seems to get most of his information from Fox News.

Britain has always been the nation of reason, common sense, law and justice.

We look at arguments from all sides, have a cup of tea and then make a sensible decision, rather than rush to judgement.

I appreciate that columnits are employed to think ‘outside the box’ say what people are only thinking, raise controversial issues and provoke debate.

And everyone is entitled to their opinion. However hysterical, neurotic or loathesome.

There are laws governing incitement and hate crimes and generally, writers for serious titles know their boundaries.

The trouble is, they go up to the edge and what they write encourages the keyboard warriors who read them to go over that barrier.

Not enough of us realise that these people are being paid to be argumentative and provocative.