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.
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The unbearable smugness of Sandi Toksvig
Thursday, 9 June 2011
Julie Burchill: The only Danish export I can't stand seems to worm her way deeper into the fabric of British life every day.
A word of advice, Lily...
Thursday, 2 June 2011
Julie Burchill: Don't listen to what people like me say about you.
Maturity means embracing the joys of invisibility
Thursday, 26 May 2011
Julie Burchill: Ambition is nice to have in your youth – but hold on to it into middle age, and you'll end up sour.
Give me emotionally continent men over these hysterics
Thursday, 19 May 2011
Julie Burchill: Come back the strong, silent male stereotype - all is forgiven!
Why is boxing respectable, but pornography weird?
Thursday, 12 May 2011
Julie Burchill: There's been a bunch of sentimental swill talked about boxing.
Toytown Trots who attack shops are no better than Bullingdon Club bullies
Thursday, 5 May 2011
Julie Burchill: They both think they know what's better for people than people do themselves.
It's only men who take out gagging orders
Thursday, 28 April 2011
Julie Burchill: The rise of the super-injunction has attempted to build a phoney shield of decency around selected celebrity sleazes.
The supermodel who became a super-role-model
Thursday, 21 April 2011
Julie Burchill: What women can learn from Cindy Crawford.
Is anything worse than a reformed celebrity hellraiser?
Thursday, 14 April 2011
Julie Burchill: Celebrities parade guilt and redemption as though they were the latest designer lust-haves.
Unions were demonised, so the bullies took over
Thursday, 7 April 2011
Julie Burchill: While my dad wasn't above a bit of secondary picketing, my mother lived and breathed the struggle for workers' rights.
Columnist Comments
• Steve Richards: Blair's approval keeps Cameron safe
Whatever the motivation of Blair, the consequences are deep. For Cameron, the glow of approval is like gold dust
• Adrian Hamilton: Nato is dead – we just won't admit it
If ever the death knell was sounded for an organisation, it was sounded by the US Defence Secretary last Friday
• Mark Steel: Is wanting a Murray win enough?
He is by far the best British tennis player for 70 years, and getting to semi-finals regularly is remarkable
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1 Julie Burchill: What do you mean, Facebook is over? I've only just become addicted to it
2 Robert Fisk: I saw these brave doctors trying to save lives – these charges are a pack of lies
3 Donald Macintyre: If these strikes work, they'll buck a decades-long trend
4 Christina Patterson: We can't keep paying people to be poor
5 Matthew Norman: Shame on David Miliband for dragging his party down
6 Leading article: Strikes that will only extend the pain
7 Stefan Stern: Behind corporate walls, the masters of the universe weep
8 Adrian Hamilton: Nato is dead – it's just that we won't admit it
9 Steve Richards: Blair's approval keeps Cameron safe
10 Robert Fisk: Swat the flies and tell the truth – live on al-Jazeera
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1 Johann Hari: It's not just Dominique Strauss-Kahn. The IMF itself should be on trial
2 Andrew Martin: They are clean, intelligent and cuddly. Let's hear it for the rat
3 Christina Patterson: We can't keep paying people to be poor
5 Donald Macintyre: If these strikes work, they'll buck a decades-long trend
6 Steve Richards: The end of the Tories' romantic dream
7 Dominic Lawson: Why the disabled fear assisted suicide
8 Who cares in the Middle East what Obama says?
9 Matthew Norman: Shame on David Miliband for dragging his party down
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