This Indonesian punk-rocker and English lecturer uses the Guardian website as a tool for cultural studies

Originally from South Africa, Claire didn’t understand the putdown of ‘you’re a typical Guardian reader’. But now she gets it, she’s thrilled to be called one

This reader first encountered the Guardian when his sociology teacher encouraged him to look beyond his local newspapers in Northern Ireland

This Islington-dwelling, hummus-eating, self-confessed cliche of a Guardian reader loves it when the newspaper challenges his liberal beliefs

This teacher from Knebworth delights in using the Guardian as a teaching tool with his students

This son of Stoke-on-Trent follows Polly Toynbee’s writing via the Guardian’s daily edition on Kindle Fire or iPhone

The Guardian is a constant source of inspiration for this forensic psychology student

This 80-year-old author started reading the Guardian when he joined the Colonial Service, to keep in touch with liberal politics

This Women’s Equality party activist has used the Guardian to navigate some of the most important parts of her life

This American reader found a passion for journalism during a time of illness

This expat English teacher living in Nantes has made some saucy linguistic faux pas and found the whole Brexit saga reminiscent of Orwell’s Animal Farm

Trying to read the Manchester Guardian before her father had made it into firelighters was easier said than done for this allotmenteer

This Finnish book lover reads the Guardian in order to keep in touch with the UK after coming here on the Erasmus programme

This primary school teacher and self-professed politics geek has been a Guardian reader since the 2005 election

This lecturer at Loughborough University enjoys the Guardian’s live blogs and the columnists Marina Hyde and Tim Dowling

This crossword fan reflects on half a century of reading the Guardian, while living all over the world

This Lincolnshire nurse is a particular fan of the readers’ contributions in the Guardian’s Family life section

This PhD student is grateful that issues in academia are discussed in a fair and measured fashion in the pages of the Guardian

This American reader was drawn to the Guardian’s coverage of the WikiLeaks cables

Alan Laurie, who has been a Guardian reader for more than 50 years, reflects on the turbulent times he has witnessed