Julie Burchill

Britain is now a nation of shoplifters

16 September 2023 9:00 am

Shoplifting is out of control

Why musicians can’t stand politicians liking their songs

31 August 2023 5:05 pm

I was amused to hear that Eminem has sent a cease-and-desist letter to the Republican presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy –…

It’s time to end the rewilding menace

19 August 2023 10:00 am

There’s a ghastly predictability to the news that the University of Sussex – in Brighton, naturally – wants to set aside nearly half…

Do the police think ‘lesbian’ is a term of abuse?

14 August 2023 10:43 pm

Reading that a 16-year-old autistic girl had been dragged from her home by seven cops after reportedly saying a female…

Brighton rock bottom: How the Greens nearly destroyed the city I love

12 August 2023 10:00 am

When you’re short-sighted, everyone seems attractive; for this reason, I don’t often wear my glasses, as I think myopia has…

Lizzo and the problem with Fat Activism

3 August 2023 3:44 am

Remember when we all loved Lizzo? In 2019 ‘Juice’ (the last great party anthem BP – Before Pandemic) was a…

The sinister truth about the war on cars

1 August 2023 9:23 pm

When I was a girl in the 1970s, we didn’t have a car. We always took the train from our…

Who killed comedy?

29 July 2023 4:00 pm

Wading into the Sadiq Khan #HaveAWord brouhaha, Laurence Fox had a pop at Khan’s ally Romesh Ranganathan thus: ‘You are…

The cruelty of a trans beauty queen

13 July 2023 6:24 pm

BeKind is one of the Great Icks – to use the vivid word so beloved of Love Islanders – of…

Gary Lineker and Andy Murray

Andy Murray and the unstoppable rise of the sporting bores

6 July 2023 12:07 am

When I was a girl, sportsmen were amiable dolts. If they were old-school, they liked blokes and beer; if switched-on,…

The Transmaid’s Tale

1 July 2023 5:00 pm

It’s generally agreed that sex-selection is a Bad Thing. In India and China, sons are favoured over daughters – but…

Solid, drab grey

1 July 2023 9:00 am

Count Maxim pursues his former cleaner Alessia to Albania – but sex in badly plumbed bathrooms while senseless on raki doesn’t sound that thrilling

It’s becoming ever clearer that climate change is a class issue

21 June 2023 11:38 pm

It’s not news that we live in a New Medieval age of Magical Thinking, when the Enlightenment is seen as…

The stupidity of the Oscars’ diversity quotas

20 June 2023 9:35 pm

Is anyone actually watching the Oscars anymore? Until ‘The Incident’ between Messrs Smith and Rock last year the direction of…

The downfall of Prince Harry

12 June 2023 7:45 pm

With festival season just around the corner, it is fitting that Prince Harry’s Worldwide Privacy Tour is coming to a…

Proud to be British

3 June 2023 9:00 am

Sunder Katwala, of Indian-Irish heritage, analyses the whiteness of the Remain vote, seeing Britain’s pro-European movement as a case of cosmopolitanism without diversity

The sad truth about Phillip Schofield

21 May 2023 11:59 pm

You hear a lot about Artificial Intelligence (AI) taking over professions in the near future – and I think television…

This coronation is making me a republican again

2 May 2023 2:48 am

I was never a monarchist. One of my earliest memories is of being a bolshy little girl refusing to stand…

Blairite ‘nepo babies’ are the worst of the lot

30 April 2023 4:10 pm

When the singer Lily Allen found herself flak-catching recently, she was quick to point out she was the OK kind…

Self-obsession will be the death of music

23 April 2023 5:04 am

Though I’m not the most avid fan of her oeuvre, I was cheered recently to see that Ellie Goulding wanted…

The Guardian has wrecked itself

5 April 2023 8:29 pm

It’s so strange now to think that I spent several happy years as a Guardian columnist, the only billet from…

The ignorance of Gary Lineker

11 March 2023 7:43 pm

When I was a girl, footballers had a somewhat limited vocabulary. That wasn’t to say that they were seen as…

How did modern sex get so unsexy?

25 February 2023 9:00 am

How did modern sex become so unsexy?

Nicola Bulley and the shame of the TikTok ghouls

22 February 2023 5:00 pm

Ghoul – ‘a person morbidly interested in death or disaster’ – is such a descriptive word. There are a lot…

Why I’m glad to see the back of Nicola Sturgeon

18 February 2023 5:30 pm

I see Scotland as the brain of the UK, with Wales as the soul and Northern Ireland as the heart.…