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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julie_Burchill#Views_and_reputation
- 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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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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- Once we had anarchy in the UK. Now all we have is monarchy in the UK - The Queen's diamond jubilee points up just how divided socially the country still is - 8th April 2012 (Writing in The Guardian)
- Spare me from the whining women who are giving feminism a bad name - The 'girls' night in' antics on Celebrity Big Brother highlighted all that is wrong with female friendship - 29th January 2012 (Writing in The Guardian)
- Fashion is for dummies... - ... but you're never too fat for a fragrance to fit - 28th October 2011
- Ageing women have a better time than raddled old men - 22nd October 2011
- Tell us to drink 'moderately'? - Yeah, that's SO gonna work! - 14th October 2011
- Selling sex... why be coy about it? - Recently we've had to endure actors behaving in an eye-wateringly embarrassing manner in bids to be both deep (poor "raped" Johnny Depp) and matey (Kate Winslet) - 10th October 2011
- Rihanna is the real thing - Keeping it real. Is there any modern phrase which so immediately makes one's Phoney Alarm go off big-time, with bells on? - 30th September 2011
- Self-pity is now an art form - I had to laugh when I read that a Dublin music shop had banned potential buyers from trying out their keyboards by playing the opening bars of Adele's hit "Someone Like You" - 23rd September 2011
- Jackie O and her trivial pursuits - Was there ever a bigger all-round phoney than the late Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis - 16th September 2011
- Let's be clear on hate crime - Why is domestic violence not taken as seriously as a homophobic or racial attack? - 9th September 2011
- What makes a hate crime? - If you could put money on a word combo coming up empty on Google, one of the best bets would surely be "Dire Straits" and "hate crime" - 2nd September 2011
- Never mind the Lennox - I loathe London and visit it as little as I can. But on the the other hand, I find it hard to resist the sight of a self-deceiving tool making a spectacle of themselves - 26th August 2011
- A new way to keep women at home - Goodness knows I'm a broad-minded broad - 19th August 2011
- The 'courage' of the fashion fools - I don't include the models here, who are much smarter than designers and fash-hacks - 12th August 2011
- Men, leave the cleaning to me - I would no more respect a woman who made a man into a domestic dogsbody than the other way around - 5th August 2011
- It's time to tackle the chav-baiters - Chavs really are the gifts that keep on giving - 28th July 2011
- The 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
- Diversity? It's just a mask for low wages - The current crisis in Coronation Street is easy to understand - 15th July 2011
- Facebook 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
- The 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
- A word of advice, Lily - Don't listen to what people like me say about you - 2nd June 2011
- Maturity 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
- Give me emotionally continent men over these hysterics - Come back the strong, silent male stereotype - all is forgiven! - 19th May 2011
- Why is boxing respectable, but pornography weird? - There's been a bunch of sentimental swill talked about boxing - 12th May 2011
- Toytown 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
- Something's 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
- Supermodel 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
- Is anything worse than a reformed celebrity hellraiser? - Celebrities parade guilt and redemption as though they were the latest designer lust-haves - 14th April 2011
- The 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
- Farewell, 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
- You've 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
- University? 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
- 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 - 3rd March 2011
- Smug 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
- Young? 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
- The 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
- Armchair 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
- Goodbye 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
- Helpline Britain gets its kicks from sexed-up sorrow - Is there anything that isn't grist for the dramatic mill? - 20th January 2011
- The 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
- Living 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
- The 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
- No 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
- You 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
- Spare us protesters who riot in defence of their privilege - Charlie Gilmour: 'that pampered ponce of a poltroon' - 16th December 2010
- Leslie 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
- Those 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
- Hypocrites will always be rumbled in the jungle - Reality TV comes with a bullshit detector that is second to none - 18th November 2010
- Julie Burchill on Will & Kate - If only she'd aimed a little higher, she'd have made a top-flight air stewardess - 17th November 2010
- Pining for 'X Factor' - Despite seeing the darker side of fame, Michael Jackson's children plan careers in showbiz - 11th November 2010
- Women and sex - My husband claims I coined the line about Fry being 'a stupid person's idea of a clever person' - 3rd November 2010
- Poor Lauren Booth... - ... she would do anything to get in with the tough kids - 27th October 2010
- High-profile women - On the surface, Ann Widdecombe and Kate Moss don't have a lot in common - 13th October 2010
- An 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
- Forget romance - It is surely the greatest capitalist cash-cow ever invented, the gift that truly does keep on giving - 29th September 2010
- Amis and Jordan - Martin Amis and Katie Price have much in common - 22nd September 2010
- Age 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
- Is 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
- Standing up to stoners - Some girls strip off for the camera, some veil up for a murderous, gynophobic, theocratic dictatorship - 1st September 2010
- Booze 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
- Prince of Hypocrites - Green is the first socio-political movement in which every single leader and spokesperson is filthy rich - 18th August 2010
- Armchair warrior... - ... rather than an armchair appeaser - 11th August 2010
- The 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
- Politicians - 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
- Eamonn, 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
- Does 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
- Living 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
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