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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Julie Burchill: Give me the brave trades unions over the bigoted politics of diversity any day
I am very much a creature of the Left. My mother was a cleaner, shop worker and factory hand while my father worked in a distillery (mmm... distilleries!) and later as a car-park attendant, so I would have been really stupid not to be.
Inside Julie Burchill
Smug cyclists are driving me to pavement rage
Thursday, 24 February 2011
Julie Burchill: When I was a volunteer for the blind, I became aware what a jungle it is out there.
Young? Working-class? Forget getting an interesting job
Thursday, 17 February 2011
Julie Burchill: There should be a ban on posh kids getting fun, well-paid jobs, say for the next decade.
The real funnymen left the building long ago
Thursday, 10 February 2011
Julie Burchill: The ignorant bigotry of Bernard Manning has been replaced by the calculated bullying of comics such as Jimmy Carr and Frankie Boyle.
Armchair revolutionaries: be careful what you wish for in the Middle East
Thursday, 3 February 2011
Julie Burchill: During a long hard winter, nothing warms the cold blood of the Western armchair revolutionary more than the sight of a bunch of attractive dark-skinned people out on the streets having a right old revolution.
Goodbye to Enlightenment. It's the age of goatsuckers
Thursday, 27 January 2011
Julie Burchill: The chupacabra - a fearsome monster first spotted in 1995 - has recently been revealed as a hoax.
Helpline Britain gets its kicks from sexed-up sorrow
Thursday, 20 January 2011
Julie Burchill: Is there anything that isn't grist for the dramatic mill?
The BBC's institutionalised bullying of women laid bare
Saturday, 15 January 2011
Julie Burchill: The BBC’s fat cats turned out to be as vile as any MP with his snout in the trough.
Living by the seaside is like having all your Christmases come at once
Thursday, 13 January 2011
Julie Burchill: When I was a kid growing up in Bristol, we would go on day-trips to the nearby seaside town of Weston-Super-Mare.
The wonder is that film stars are so virtuous
Thursday, 6 January 2011
Julie Burchill: Such a touching number settle down before they can legally drink in most American states.
No wonder families go into meltdown after Christmas
Thursday, 30 December 2010
Julie Burchill: I adored my mum and dad, but to be honest I don't miss them much now they're dead.
Columnist Comments
• Dominic Lawson: They haven't got us over a barrel at all
Why must an uprising against the Saudi monarchy mean a drop in oil production?
• Terence Blacker: Why is being alone social defeat?
The act of reading in an atmosphere of quiet is now eccentric
• A rock star could provide as much glamour as a prince
The element that attracts the punters is not possessed exclusively by royalty
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1 Dominic Lawson: They haven't got us over a barrel at all
2 Terence Blacker: Why is being alone social defeat?
3 A rock star could provide as much glamour as a prince
4 Tom Stoppard: We must not be distracted from this brutality
5 Johann Hari: Why do we ignore the abuse of women?
6 Tom Sutcliffe: We're addicted to the Andy McNab factor
7 Johann Hari: David Cameron’s assault on the homeless is Dickensian
8 Leading article: From royal asset to national liability
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1 Terence Blacker: Why is being alone social defeat?
2 Dominic Lawson: They haven't got us over a barrel at all
3 John Lichfield: All hail the Percy Pig revolution
4 Andy Martin: But could Che fix his own pistons?
5 Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: Where are the men to help women fight their battles?
6 A rock star could provide as much glamour as a prince
7 Robert Fisk: The destiny of this pageant lies in the Kingdom of Oil
8 Leading article: Professionals in need of a check-up
9 Julie Burchill: Give me the brave trades unions over the bigoted politics of diversity any day
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