the Guardian columns - 2002
"Anyone who reads more than a couple of her sentences knows Julie Burchill frequently indulges in over-the-top iconoclastic polemic." - The editor of The Guardian newspaper (August 2002):
05 jan 2002 Worked to death
12 jan 2002 Bad Blair days
19 jan 2002 Falling flat on their arts
26 jan 2002 It's a vision thing
01 feb 2002 Voyage of the damned
02 feb 2002 Indignity of Labour (mesothelioma)
09 feb 2002 Against the flow (a magazine "for women who bleed")
16 feb 2002 A woman's work is never done
23 feb 2002 The Joan Collins Fan Club
02 mar 2002 What a capital idea
09 mar 2002 (Popstars is) A true test of talent
16 mar 2002 In the court of the creeps
30 mar 2002 I don't believe it!
Beyond the cringe: "To be too much in favour of European federalism marks a man out as being sexually stuck at the age of 13, when he first started sneaking into "foreign films", and heard about every bloke in France having a mistress."
06 apr 2002 Beyond the cringe
12 apr 2002 Call me middle-class and I'll punch you says Julie, although the defiantly middle-class John O'Farrell chooses to put it another way in Goodbye, working class and then Mary Riddell gives the class the facts. Out in the playground there's a right old punch up going on!
13 apr 2002 Leave those Brits alone or beyond the cringe Part Two
20 apr 2002 Burying our heads
27 apr 2002 A grande affaire or one night in Paris
11 may 2002 Shirking nine to five or when fun and work collide
18 may 2002 Don't be so wet or why pools aren't for children
25 may 2002 Abortion: still a dirty word and some juicy letters in response
01 jun 2002 Julia Roberts and me
05 jun 2002 Beyond the cringe on the silly self-loathing of beautiful women
08 jun 2002 Revenge of the mummy or why there is no such thing as a bad father (sic)
15 jun 2002 Tony the Barbarian ravaging the real working class
22 jun 2002 A tale of northern soul or why them up north are better, and Tim Adams backs this up here
29 jun 2002 Let's all have a flutter on the cross of St. George
which almost had Julie sued for incitement to racial hatred (again) although both the Crown Prosecution Service and the Guardian readers' editor sided with Julie rather than various readers.
Tony the Barbarian: "I don't think there's ever been a time when thankless, essential jobs have been so relatively underpaid compared with self-seeking, non-essential ones... We have seen a massive over-employment of the mediocre, in jobs that the human race managed perfectly well without until a few years ago."
06 jul 2002 Too hot to handle
13 jul 2002 Rule of dumb on the lack of opportunity
20 jul 2002 For the hell of it or how to read the Daily Mail and one reader's letter
27 jul 2002 Workers that turned
03 aug 2002 The kids are alright
10 aug 2002 Pride stripped bare
17 aug 2002 Bitching about artists
24 aug 2002 The killing fields (or the stupidity of fox hunting)
07 sep 2002 Just don't make a meal of it
14 sep 2002 Out of date or when to stop chasing "love"
21 sep 2002 Fools in love
Bottom of the list: "At times in my life, I've wanted to be a lesbian, a Jew and a horse - but I've never, ever wanted to be a man."
05 oct 2002 The straight pretenders
12 oct 2002 The right to tell
12 oct 2002 Julie visits Manhattan (it's great - but not Torquay)
19 oct 2002 Bottom of the list
26 oct 2002 Politics? Give me popstars (Julie admits to middle-age and an affection for Man About the House reruns)
02 nov 2002 The filthy truth about asbestos (JB features in a BBC documentary)
09 nov 2002 The Blair stitch-up project and then backed up in a letter 16 nov 2002 >Burying Bain in a bucket of sand
15 nov 2002 Girls will be boys (or the thesp's girly day job)
16 nov 2002 Partner in crime (on the "crime" of using the word "partner")
23 nov 2002 When a man kills a woman (on real "crimes" by husbands and partners)
30 nov 2002 Don't bore me ("an uncluttered mind is a happy mind")
21 dec 2002 Mum's the word
28 dec 2002 Bad Blair days ("I've always fancied myself a bit of a saint...")
and finally, a happy new year with Julie's contribution to the Guardian's festive quiz for 2002 and to the Observer's best and worst arts in 2002 (all ego and bitterness...)
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