Julie Burchill
Julie Burchill, 51, has been a journalist since the age of 17. The Channel 4 drama series based on her teenage novel Sugar Rush won an International Emmy in 2006, a play about her by Tim Fountain, Julie Burchill Is Away, was an off-West End hit in 2002 and she has written sixteen books. She is currently a columnist for The Independent and in the early stages of organizing SABABA TEL AVIV!, a word-fest planned for 2011. She is married and lives in Brighton.
‘If gay men can dish it out, why can’t they take it as well?’
Julie Burchill: My husband claims I coined the line about Fry being 'a stupid person's idea of a clever person'.
Inside Julie Burchill
'What sort of woman freely converts to Islam?'
Wednesday, 27 October 2010
Julie Burchill: Maybe Lauren Booth thinks that if she sucks up to Islamism hard enough she will be spared its rage.
I’ve found a new feminist hero – Ann Widdecombe
Wednesday, 13 October 2010
Julie Burchill: All the mockery simply slides off Ann Widdecombe like the proverbial H2O off a canard's back.
An up-itself language that deserves to be thrown in the dustbin of history
Wednesday, 6 October 2010
Julie Burchill: It was the advent of rock'n'roll which sent French into a tailspin that it would never recover from
Forget about romance. Just give me sex
Wednesday, 29 September 2010
Julie Burchill: Romance is surely the greatest cash-cow ever invented, the gift that truly does keep on giving.
Amis and Jordan – a marriage made only in his imagination
Wednesday, 22 September 2010
Julie Burchill: I blame Arthur Miller for the silly spectacles these speccy swots make of themselves.
You can't part a phoney from his money in age of hypercrite
Wednesday, 15 September 2010
Julie Burchill: I have many faults, but hypocrisy is not one of them. Thus, I've always been fascinated by hypocrites
Do visits from ex-Hitler Youth members make me uneasy? Is the Pope Catholic?
Wednesday, 8 September 2010
Julie Burchill: The Pope may be able to help Wayne and Coleen, but I'd prefer a moral lecture from Juicy Jeni.
Iran, hypocrisy, and why I’m siding with Carla Bruni
Wednesday, 1 September 2010
Julie Burchill: Some girls strip off for the camera, and some veil up for a murderous, gynophobic dictatorship.
Have mercy on smokers. But not bourgeois mothers
Wednesday, 25 August 2010
Julie Burchill: The number of girls who blamed drink for loss of virginity doubled. None blamed cigarettes.
So the Prince of Green Hypocrites is going on tour...
Wednesday, 18 August 2010
Julie Burchill: Green is the first socio-political movement in which every leader and spokesperson is filthy rich
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1 John Rentoul: Here lies electoral reform. R.I.P.
2 Douglas Alexander: Jobs, not threats, get families off welfare
3 Joan Smith: Murder is always wrong, and has nothing to do with faith
4 Robert Fisk: Only justice can bring peace to this benighted region
5 Leading article: Tread carefully, Mr Cameron
6 Rupert Cornwell: The President has got to learn to say: I got it wrong
7 Johann Hari: America is now officially for sale
8 DJ Taylor: The West's days are numbered, ask any BBC history hunk
9 Andrew Martin: We may be useless at DIY, but taking pleasure in housework is a man's right
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1 Andrew Martin: We may be useless at DIY, but taking pleasure in housework is a man's right
2 Johann Hari: America is now officially for sale
3 Joan Smith: Murder is always wrong, and has nothing to do with faith
4 Rupert Cornwell: The President has got to learn to say: I got it wrong
5 John Sandwich: The coalition says this will be a priority. That's what the last government said, too
6 Robert Fisk: Only justice can bring peace to this benighted region
7 Robert Fisk: Exodus. The changing map of the Middle East
8 Douglas Alexander: Jobs, not threats, get families off welfare
9 Dom Joly: I've turned the tables on the tabloids
10 Julie Burchill: Gay man lays into women, fine. But when it's the other way around...
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Columnist Comments
• John Rentoul: Here lies electoral reform. R.I.P.
The political veteran started life as a much-loved idealist but withered away, neglected and outmoded
• Joan Smith: Murder has nothing to do with faith
Those that think it does are dangerous and delusional
• Rupert Cornwell: Obama has got to say: I got it wrong
A bit of humility wouldn't go amiss if he wants to avoid another 'shellacking' in two years' time
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