Julie Burchill

The indomitable Pamela Anderson sees the best in everything

18 February 2023 9:00 am

Even the serious abuse she suffered as a small child and a teenager is described without a trace of self-pity

We are living through a golden age of misogyny

12 February 2023 7:30 pm

I hope I’ll be forgiven for not dropping my dog-eared copy of The Female Eunuch in sheer molten awe upon reading in…

Why I’m sceptical of the ADHD epidemic

5 February 2023 6:29 pm

Just a quick plea to those who know me; if you’re going to burst upon me with a revelation, make…

In praise of drunkenness

28 January 2023 9:00 am

The sad decline of drunkenness

The insipid cult of saint Jacinda Ardern

21 January 2023 5:42 pm

Watching Jacinda Ardern’s departure speech, I reflected that even though I invented the word cry-bully – ‘a hideous hybrid of…

The ghastliness of Vivienne Westwood

14 January 2023 6:00 pm

Seeing the swathe of superlatives wheeled out about Vivienne Westwood after her death last year at the age of 81,…

Prince Harry’s book is a gift to the world

6 January 2023 11:09 pm

And still it keeps on coming. We had barely absorbed the first wave of revelations – jewellery mashed, dog bowls…

The trouble with Prince Harry

3 January 2023 11:38 pm

The promotional clip trailing Prince Harry’s upcoming interview – which has kicked off the publicity trail for his forthcoming memoir Spare –…

Why I’m giving up on diehard Remainers

31 December 2022 7:00 pm

What’s your New Year’s resolution? Eat less, move more? Or perhaps you’re a contrary cuss aiming to eat more and…

Nothing will ever be good enough for Harry and Meghan

17 December 2022 6:15 pm

Imagine you’ve paid good money to see a French farce – and halfway through, it turns into a Greek tragedy.…

Whoever persuaded Bono he could sing?

17 December 2022 9:00 am

There are a few pop stars whose work I can’t help liking in spite of myself – their song-writing, that…

Harry and Meghan want to destroy the House of Windsor 

10 December 2022 6:53 pm

When I coined the phrase ‘The Grabdication’ in The Spectator two years ago, I had no concept of exactly how grasping the Duke and Duchess…

Balenciaga and fashion’s child sexualisation problem 

1 December 2022 12:33 am

For a long time now, high fashion – with the alibi of being ‘art’ – has tried on rape, self-harm, heroin-chic…

The empty Englishness of Love Actually

27 November 2022 8:00 pm

One of the pleasures of fiction, be it book or film, is that it can take us to actual places…

How Marks & Spencer spoiled Christmas

22 November 2022 7:44 pm

Working in a charity shop, where the Christmas cards go out in July, means I’m more aware than most how…

In praise of Just Stop Oil

12 November 2022 12:17 am

As a child in the 1960s, all I wanted to do was get to London: to be rich and famous,…

Matt Hancock is perfect for ‘I’m A Celebrity…’

6 November 2022 6:00 pm

How can a man have such good and bad judgement? Matt Hancock’s wife is an absolute babe, but his career…

The myth of the jolly fat man

29 October 2022 9:00 am

Why are fat men seen as cuddly but fat women as a problem?

Cultural appropriation has killed modern music

20 August 2022 4:00 pm

It’s a rule of life that adults shouldn’t understand young people’s music, ever since Little Richard made the old folk…

How Rebekah Vardy went from underdog to 'Cry-Bully'

31 July 2022 12:17 am

It was Depp vs Heard and Best Of Breed at Crufts rolled into one: yes, the Wagatha Christie gravy-train came…

The toxic cult of the superhero

30 July 2022 9:00 am

Why this mad insistence that everyone has special powers?

Is self-loathing the British disease?

30 July 2022 9:00 am

Whatever one thinks of the government’s plans to send refugees to Rwanda, it was amusing to see this country’s left…

Why does the police force attract so many sex abusers?

10 July 2022 4:45 pm

Growing up, I didn’t really think about the police until I got caught shoplifting at the age of 14. Separated…

Where have all the Bad Girls gone?

3 July 2022 5:00 pm

Where have all the Bad Girls gone? They used to rock up regularly at the Love Island villa – now…

Glastonbury sums up everything there is to hate about rock music

27 June 2022 2:41 am

‘Glasto’ – the diminutive makes me shiver with distaste; like ‘Peely’ – as his fans affectionately called the late DJ…