Alfonso Ussía, a leading columnist for the right-wing media, has died.

BarcelonaHe began by writing satirical poems, and the press quickly drew him to prose, where he expressed himself in the form of columns. Alfonso Ussía, who died this Friday after a long illness, became one of the icons of the right-wing media, with more than half a century of columns in publications such as...ABC, Daily 16, The reason, Time and, more recently, The DebateHis writings often employed sarcasm, and he took aim at the usual suspects in the more conservative media: the left, Catalan nationalism, unions, and feminism. He was 77 years old.

The polemicist was also a frequent radio contributor, in this case alongside Luis del Olmo on Onda Cero or on the program The compassHis career was also closely linked to Antena 3 Radio and Antena 3 Television. The illness he suffered from had gradually weakened him, to the point that, in recent years, he could no longer type articles on the computer and dictated them to his daughter Isabel. But even this method became impossible, as he lost his voice in the final stage.

Born in 1948, he was the second son of Luis de Ussía y Gavaldá, second Count of Los Gaitanes, and María de la Asunción Muñoz-Seca y Ariza, daughter of the playwright Pedro Muñoz Seca. He was also the nephew of Lieutenant General Jaime Milans del Bosch y Ussía, one of the military officers involved in the attempted coup of 1981. Some of his best-selling books were Treatise on good manners and The Annoying Environmentalist's HandbookHis career was recognized with the Mariano de Cavia journalism prize and he also received distinctions such as the gold medal of the Community of Madrid or the Grand Cross of Naval Merit.