Julie Burchill



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Full name: Julie Burchill

Area of interest: Society and cultural issues

Journals: The Sunday Times | The Sun | The Independent

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Website: JulieBurchil.org.uk (unofficial website)

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 * currently (2009) writing columns for The Sunday Times and The Sun as guest columnist


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 * Punk77.co.uk: Julie Burchill profile
 * Spike Magazine extended interview, June 2005
 * Julie Burchill, interview by Sathnam Sanghera for the Financial Times, 4th June 2005
 * Burchill bows out of journalism, Interview by Stephen Brook, The Guardian, 21st June 2007
 * 'I have no ambition left' - Self-proclaimed 'Miss Rentagob' tells Ben Dowell about being sacked from the Times, that the cash paid by the Mail to serialise her book was barely enough for a weekend's martinis, and how she lacks 'sensible genes', Interview by Ben Dowell, The Guardian, 4th August 2008

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 * Sugar Rush (TV series) - Julie's first novel aimed at teenagers
 * BBC Today programme: Julie Burchill and George Monbiot - discuss whether Green campaigners are hypocritical in their aims (AUDIO 5.54min)
 * IMDb

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Controversy/Criticism: Feud with Camille Paglia, circa 1993 (JulieBurchil.org.uk)

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Books & Debate:

 * The boy looked at Johnny OCLC 258368801, 1980 (with Tony Parsons)
 * Love it or shove it OCLC 14356038, 1985
 * Damaged Gods: cults and heroes reappraised OCLC 16682269, 1986
 * Girls on film OCLC 14214052, 1986
 * Ambition OCLC 22893033, 1989
 * Absolute filth: an a to z of sex OCLC 38501285, 19--?
 * Sex and sensibility OCLC 27770722, 1992
 * No exit OCLC 27726867, 1993
 * Diana OCLC 40340186, 1998 (Amazon.co click to LOOK INSIDE)
 * I knew I was right: an autobiography OCLC 38329679, 1998
 * Married alive OCLC 40589141, 1999 (Amazon.co: click to LOOK INSIDE)
 * The Guardian Columns 1998/2000 OCLC 59550370, 2001 (Amazon.co: click to LOOK INSIDE)
 * Burchill on Beckham OCLC 47726600, 2001
 * Julie Burchill is away (by Tim Fountain) OCLC 48979358, 2002
 * Sugar Rush OCLC 56608115, 2005
 * Made in Brighton OCLC 124919798, 2007 (with Daniel Raven)
 * Sweet OCLC 148294621, 2007

Latest work: Not in my name: a compendium of modern hypocrisy OCLC 190777764, 2008 (with Chas Newkey-Burden)

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Articles:

 * time to tackle the chav-baiters'' - Chavs really are the gifts that keep on giving - 28th July 2011
 * day Rebekah's fortune was told'' - In the Eighties when I was young and Godless, I penned a frankly filthy, and filthily frank, book called 'Ambition' - 21st July 2011
 * It's just a mask for low wages'' - The current crisis in Coronation Street is easy to understand - 15th July 2011
 * is over? But I've only just become addicted to it'' - For someone whose default emotional setting is semi-detached hyper-sociability this truly is the gift that keeps on poking - 16th June 2011
 * unbearable smugness of Sandi Toksvig – and what the C-word really means'' - The only Danish export I can't stand seems to worm her way deeper into the fabric of British life every day - 9th June 2011
 * word of advice, Lily'' - Don't listen to what people like me say about you - 2nd June 2011
 * means letting go of ambition, and embracing the joys of invisibility'' - Ambition is nice to have in your youth – but hold on to it into middle age, and you'll end up sour - 26th May 2011
 * me emotionally continent men over these hysterics'' - Come back the strong, silent male stereotype - all is forgiven! - 19th May 2011
 * is boxing respectable, but pornography weird?'' - There's been a bunch of sentimental swill talked about boxing - 12th May 2011
 * Trots who attack shops are no better than Bullingdon Club bullies'' - They both think they know what's better for people than people do themselves - 5th May 2011
 * wrong when it's only men who take out gagging orders'' - They say that no man is a hero to his valet, but in recent years the rise of the super-injunction has attempted to build a phoney shield of decency around selected celebrity sleazes rich enough to afford one - 28th April 2011
 * to super-role-model: what women can learn from Cindy Crawford'' - It has been said that a pretty face is a passport. But it's not – it's a visa, and it runs out - 21st April 2011
 * anything worse than a reformed celebrity hellraiser?'' - Celebrities parade guilt and redemption as though they were the latest designer lust-haves - 14th April 2011
 * unions have been demonised, so the bullies have taken their place'' - with the unions weakened and demonised, the reality is that the modern workplace is a tragic kingdom of exploitation, especially for the young - 7th April 2011
 * Liz. Your beauty was a fuel worth burning'' - With the death of Elizabeth Taylor, the last of the Hollywood greats is finally gone - 24th March 2011
 * seen the footage. Now wait for the charity song'' - Simon Cowell is planning this very thing, featuring the earth-straddling talents of Britney Spears, Katy Perry and Justin Bieber - 17th March 2011
 * Why bother? The rich kids get all the fun jobs'' - Throw those books in the river, Hermione, and go for the green! - 10th March 2011
 * 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 - 3rd March 2011
 * cyclists are driving me to pavement rage'' - When I was a volunteer at a home for the blind a couple of years back, I became aware for the first time what a jungle it is out there - 24th February 2011
 * Working-class? Unconnected? If you want an interesting job, forget it'' - How interesting that Jamie Oliver is in catering, as his parents were – like so many actors, and so many journalists, too! - 17th February 2011
 * real funnymen left the building long ago'' - The ignorant bigotry of Bernard Manning has been replaced by the calculated bullying of comics such as Jimmy Carr and Frankie Boyle - 10th February 2011
 * revolutionaries: be careful what you wish for in the Middle East'' - 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 - 3rd February 2011
 * to Enlightenment. It's the age of goatsuckers'' - The chupacabra - a fearsome monster first spotted in 1995 - has recently been revealed as a hoax - 27th January 2011
 * Britain gets its kicks from sexed-up sorrow'' - Is there anything that isn't grist for the dramatic mill? - 20th January 2011
 * BBC's institutionalised bullying of women has finally been laid bare'' - The Corporation’s fat cats turned out to be as vile as any MP with his snout in the trough - 15th January 2011
 * by the seaside is like having all your Christmases come at once'' - When I was a kid growing up in Bristol, we would go on day-trips to the nearby seaside town of Weston-Super-Mare - 13th January 2011
 * wonder is that film stars are so virtuous'' - Such a touching number settle down before they can legally drink in most American states - 6th January 2011
 * wonder families go into meltdown after Christmas'' - I adored my mum and dad, but to be honest I don't miss them much now they're dead - 30th December 2010
 * have to laugh when right-on icons turn out to have the moves of frat boys'' - I don't know if Assange is innocent or guilty of being a sex-pest. But I DO know he is a Lefty Lothario - 23rd December 2010
 * us protesters who riot in defence of their privilege'' - Charlie Gilmour: 'that pampered ponce of a poltroon' - 16th December 2010
 * Nielsen – the Hamlet who found wisdom as a clown'' - I was well-pleased to read in the obituaries of Leslie Nielsen that he started out as a serious actor, but decided against it in later life - 2nd December 2010
 * who call Jordan a chav are just insecure & undersexed'' - I love her. She is her own Frankenstein and her own monster, impervious to insults and all those limp jeers of 'Ooo, I wouldn't touch her!' - 25th November 2010
 * will always be rumbled in the jungle'' - Reality TV comes with a bullshit detector that is second to none - 18th November 2010
 * Burchill on Will & Kate'' - If only she'd aimed a little higher, she'd have made a top-flight air stewardess - 17th November 2010
 * for 'X Factor''' - Despite seeing the darker side of fame, Michael Jackson's children plan careers in showbiz - 11th November 2010
 * and sex'' - My husband claims I coined the line about Fry being 'a stupid person's idea of a clever person' - 3rd November 2010
 * Lauren Booth...'' - ... she would do anything to get in with the tough kids - 27th October 2010
 * women'' - On the surface, Ann Widdecombe and Kate Moss don't have a lot in common - 13th October 2010
 * up-itself language'' - It was the advent of rock'n'roll which sent French into a tailspin that it would never recover from - 6th October 2010
 * romance'' - It is surely the greatest capitalist cash-cow ever invented, the gift that truly does keep on giving - 29th September 2010
 * and Jordan'' - Martin Amis and Katie Price have much in common - 22nd September 2010
 * of the hypercrite'' - I have many faults, but hypocrisy is not one of them. Thus, I've always been fascinated by hypocrites - 15th September 2010
 * the Pope Catholic?'' - He may be able to set Wayne and Coleen back on track, but I'd rather receive moral lectures from Juicy Jeni - 8th September 2010
 * up to stoners'' - Some girls strip off for the camera, some veil up for a murderous, gynophobic, theocratic dictatorship - 1st September 2010
 * is as evil as fags'' - The number of teenage girls who blame drink for the loss of their virginity has doubled - but not one blamed cigarettes - 25th August 2010
 * of Hypocrites'' - Green is the first socio-political movement in which every single leader and spokesperson is filthy rich - 18th August 2010
 * warrior...'' - ... rather than an armchair appeaser - 11th August 2010
 * age of the phoney'' - There's been quite a bit of chatter about who should play Elizabeth Taylor in the proposed biopic - 4th August 2010
 * - grow up!'' - If politics is showbusiness for ugly people, these beauties feel entitled to go whole hog when it comes to regressing - 28th July 2010
 * lay off the pies'' - Holmes is the latest showbiz hunk of love to turn touchy after what appeared to be an easy-going attitude - 21st July 2010
 * fame make it ok to be a rapist?'' - How much is too much, when it comes to standing by one's rapist friend? - 14th July 2010
 * with someone like me will make you like someone like me... eventually'' - I've never been one to do things by halves - 7th July 2010
 * Julie Burchill on how to grow old with style - Jack Nicholson a stud at 72, Kate Moss over the hill at 35. Why such ridiculous double standards? - The Sunday Times, 20th September 2009
 * Parkinson ‘spat’ on the still-warm body of Jade Goody - The Sun, 4th June 2009
 * Julie Burchill on the Iron Lady - I grew up in a trades union household - The Sun, 4th March 2009
 * Short Story: The Human Kind - An ultra-confident smoothie entrepreneur, Charles Prince, has built an eco-empire. But a pair of ethical-minded women see through his empty promises - The Sunday Times, 1st March 2009
 * How volunteering can stave off depression - Don't waste money on expensive therapy, give up your time for someone else - The Sunday Times, 22nd February 2009
 * Why I pity the haters of my sweet, silly, brave Jade - Will it finally stop when Jade Goody stops breathing, do you think? - The Sun, 18th February 2009
 * Domestic menace - If food is the new religion, then TV chefs are its prophets. And what a bunch of status-hungry seat-sniffers they are - The Sunday Times, 8th February 2009
 * Misunderestimated - George W Bush has been the butt of jokes for years. However, here Julie Burchill mounts a defence for the outgoing US President and we show how he turned the tables on his critics - The Sun, 17th January 2009
 * Give me Amy over Sadie - I love Amy Winehouse, and I’m not at all shocked by her behaviour - The Sun, 2nd January 2009



Links:

 * Spectator articles
 * Wikipedia biog.
 * Wikiquotes
 * The Julie Burchill Random Recycler