‘A great inspiration’: tributes to journalist Ian Jack after death aged 77

Jeremy Vine, Basharat Peer and Katharine Viner join Guardian readers in honouring the former columnist

Further tributes have been paid to Ian Jack, the Guardian columnist and former editor of Granta and the Independent on Sunday who died on Friday at the age of 77.

In his final piece for the Guardian, published last week, he reminisced on his memories of the BBC, which he described as one of the world's great cultural projects", to mark its centenary.