the Guardian columns - 1998-99
Julie's columns for the Guardian began back in January 1998. Those available here begin in October this year.
"Only someone with a very dull life indeed could find fashion interesting. The Technicolor wonderlands are in our heads, not on our backs."
3 oct 98 Material Boys
10 oct 98 Power Failure
17 oct 98 All Change, Please
24 oct 98 Mad Chatters
31 oct 98 Fancy That ?
7 nov 98 Crave Concerns
14 nov 98 Men on the Menu
21 nov 98 What a Load of Rap
28 nov 98 Supernova Blight
5 dec 98 A death foretold
"Look at it!" he'd leer, gleefully. "Capitalism! Straight off the starting block! God forbid more than a day wasted before big business starts cramming people full of rubbish they don't need again!"
9 jan 99 In the Name of the Father
16 jan 99 Famous Last Words
23 jan 99 Rake's Progress
20 feb 99 Chairmen of the Fraud
6 mar 99 Sexual Healing
13 mar 99 Don't we think we're special
3 apr 99 A War Too Far
10 apr 99 A War of Words
17 apr 99 Off Their Rockers
24 apr 99 On a Wing and a Prayer
1 may 99 A Touch of Class
8 may 99 Off at the Deep End
15 may 99 Sad Sacks
22 may 99 If looks could kill
5 jun 99 Not clever, not funny
19 jun 99 Clinic clique
"Is it true there are no black people in it?" "Two faces, in longshot, I was told - two faces, in Notting Hill!"
03 jul 99 Stars in their eyes
10 jul 99 World Without End
17 jul 99 Where the sun don't shine
31 jul 99 A breed apart
07 aug 99 Presenter Indicative
14 aug 99 Same Old Story
21 aug 99 Twist in the Tail
28 aug 99 Misdirected male
04 sept 99 Irish theme pubs
11 sept 99 True badness takes big helpings of selfishness and cheek
25 sept 99 Ted Hughes. Another pet hate.
"Autumn's for people who don't flinch when they see the words "wistful" or "rueful" in novels. Myself, I'd throw them down whimpering"
02 oct 99 I've got no time for autumn
09 oct 99 "If the camps were liberated today..."
16 oct 99 Suicide and affluence
23 oct 99 "My generosity to young women in journalism is legendary..."
30 oct 99 Why Communism is better than fascism
31 oct 99 Sun sets on Page Three (The Observer)
06 nov 99 Take no souvenirs !
13 nov 99 Celebrities. Look, they're almost human !
20 nov 99 Just recently, I've started having the scariest dreams.
27 nov 99 A politician ambushed by biology.
04 dec 99 Socialism for the rich and capitalism for the poor ...
08 dec 99 Don't all rush at once, girls.
11 dec 99 Heard the one about the sexist, racist, middle-aged French model agent?
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