Why can’t the famous stop thrusting their sexuality on us?
By Julie Burchill
Fussing over Facebook snooping insults the billions of people around the world who really are monitored
By Julie Burchill
Is There Still Sex in the City? by Candace Bushnell reviewed
By Julie Burchill
Ignore the ‘tearleaders’ and faux grief. Toughen up
By Julie Burchill
I got away from the drug without doing lasting damage to myself — but I’ll never know what I did to others
By Julie Burchill
Are you a celebrity wanting a divorce? Just blame Trump and Brexit
By Julie Burchill
Unlike her, however, I snapped out of it before I was old enough to vote
By Julie Burchill
Because we’re living under the New Misogyny
By Julie Burchill
I’m keen on all sorts of my fellow females — broads, gold-diggers, career girls — but the best is the adventuress. According to Merriam-Webster, she is ‘a) a woman who seeks dangerous or exciting experiences; b) a woman who seeks position or livelihood by questionable means’. To me she is an admirable character who simply […]
By Julie Burchill
There are two sorts of people: those who can’t wait to grow up, and those who wish they never had to. It’s fair to say that women figure predominantly in the first group and men in the second, hence the preponderance of male fans of science fiction and fantasy — and dewy-eyed reminiscence about children’s […]
By Julie Burchill
You would have to be quite odd not to approve of the sudden surge of solidarity amongst Hollywood stars of the female persuasion. (Though I did wonder, when Frances McDormand called so movingly during her Oscar-winner speech ‘Meryl, if you do it everyone else will!’ whether she meant ‘Suck up to Weinstein for years’ or […]
By Julie Burchill
Reading the lip-smacking reports of the latest troubled celebrity relationships (Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux definitely high and dry, Cheryl Cole and Liam Payne allegedly on the rocks) I couldn’t help musing that stars – and more specifically, the place they occupy in our mass psychological landscape – have very much changed since the first […]
By Julie Burchill