Julie Burchill
Books of the Year II – further recommendations from our regular reviewers
Popular choices include: Look Closer, by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst; Clown Town, by Mick Herron; The Finest Hotel in Kabul, by Lyse Doucet
Books of the year II: more choices of reading in 2023
Recommendations from Mary Beard, Richard Ingrams, Sam Leith, Francis Wheen, Michela Wrong, William Dalrymple and many more
If you really want to lose friends, start a magazine
I’m more impressed than most that The Spectator has racked up 10,000 issues, because I used to be a magazine…
Critics hated Julie Burchill’s Brexit play. What does that say about them?
There is a new book out about the sun — the bright thing in the sky, not the newspaper. It…
France: #ToutsAuBistrot!
Julie Burchill hymns the joys of post-attack Paris
Mirror, mirror
The uglier the man, the more he demeans women
Fat chance
Why I am not dieting. Ever
A quiet revolution
What I discovered on a silent retreat
Singles match
The rise of ‘living apart together’ – and why I’ve stopped doing it
A slap in the Facebook
My female friends’ social media habits are too bitchy even for me
The joy of less sex
I used to think nothing would ever be more important. I was wrong
Diary
The pilot refuses to get going until everyone is seated and quiet. When we take off there are raucous cheers.…
