the Guardian columns - 2003
"When it comes to the lively arts, I find stagnation much more sinister than change. Let's get this straight: all entertainment is manufactured. There is no authenticity in any of it." - Time for a reality check
04 jan 2003 Time for a reality check (on why the inauthentic is valuable... ?)
11 jan 2003 Don't mess with the press
15 jan 2003 If it moves - shave it (why men should be hairless)
18 jan 2003 Three cheers for adultery (or getting the hots for the Archers)
25 jan 2003 Smug rebel yells (rock n rollers are human too?)
01 feb 2003 Why we should go to war
08 feb 2003 Bring me sunshine (bring me laughter, bring me lu-ur-ve...)
"The trouble with people who stop believing in socialism is that they end up believing in absolutely everything else! In fact they end up as Julie Burchill... This is government by Burchill!" - Steven Wells: in the Guardian 12 feb 2003
15 feb 2003 People in class houses (on social racism? anti-social-ism? or just plain old-fashioned snobbery...)
22 feb 2003 I'm fat. So what? (I don't get paid to be thin. Thank God.)
01 mar 2003 Silly show-offs against Saddam!
22 mar 2003 Name and shame
29 mar 2003 Don't take my name in vain (on being pro-war)
"The anti-war protests are western imperialism of the sneakiest sort, putting our clean hands before the freedom of an enslaved people." - Don't take my name in vain
05 apr 2003 The thrill of the killer
12 apr 2003 Desperately seeking attention
19 apr 2003 Bringing it all back home
26 apr 2003 The cost of dying
03 may 2003 The rise and rise of little voice
10 may 2003 Music to the ears
24 may 2003 Fear and loathing
31 may 2003 Nice try, girls (on overselling your self)
07 jun 2003 Let's get something straight (on why gay men are out to steal your boyfriend)
14 jun 2003 The ego has landed
18 jun 2003 Hot shots (what is it with women tennis players?)
21 jun 2003 Don't the doormats get it?
28 jun 2003 The scent of a real woman
"If a woman answers no to the question "Are you a feminist?", she should immediately be stripped of her voting rights, her right to institute divorce, her legal protection from domestic violence and marital rape - oh, and her pay should be cut to 19% less than that of her male colleagues. Then she could lead the carefree, non-ball-breaking life she so desires." - Feminism by any other name
03 jul 2003 Feminism by any other name (a letter on why IT still matters)
05 jul 2003 Top of the pops
12 jul 2003 Let's cut to the chase
19 jul 2003 Between the devil and the deep blue sea
26 jul 2003 You can't fool me
02 aug 2003 Home Truths about Housing and a response here
09 aug 2003 Chance would be a fine thing
16 aug 2003 A funny thing happened
19 aug 2003 Shortcuts (on ladies who strip)
23 aug 2003 The Graphic Truth
30 aug 2003 The Young Ones ("I'm 44, for goodness' sake!")
06 sept 2003 Leave them kids alone (on brits abroad)
13 sept 2003 Give me strength! (in praise of strong women)
20 sept 2003 Dying Nine to Five (on asbestosis and funding unsexy support groups)
27 sept 2003 With friends like these... (on the East Brighton 4 U project, bringing ballet to the masses)
"It may not be that there is an actual conspiracy to isolate, castrate and destroy the British working class - more likely, what we see is simply casual, "concerned" contempt in action. But ...better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees - being taught at cut-price yoga4u classes - any day of the week." - With friends like these...
18 oct 2003 White girl with attitude (political correctness in pop)
25 oct 2003 What's left for us? (or is male the new female?)
01 nov 2003 Mind the gap (on double standards)
08 nov 2003 You can keep your 'good' jobs (on the value of blue collar jobs)
08 nov 2003 Julie Burchill takes a break in Barcelona (lucky dear)
15 nov 2003 Sweet valley high (or why I love the Valley of the Dolls)
22 nov 2003 Love in an old climate (on older women loving)
22 nov 2003 Trick or treat? (on getting a massage in Brighton's Treatment Rooms on a Monday afternoon with a blond angel called Sarah)
29 nov 2003 Good bad and ugly (on anti-semitism masked as anti-zionism, one of a series of articles on this topic in the Guardian. See Brian Klug, 3 Dec for a more leftist view along the same lines, and William Shawcross 14 Dec for a brief exposure to some of the anti-semitic views current in today's world)
06 dec 2003 The Hate that shames us (for more on this topic, see the Anti-Defamation League website)
13 dec 2003 Its a rat trap (or Frank Sinatra - the nightmare before Christmas)
20 dec 2003 Don't force yourself (to enjoy being with your family on Christmas...)
27 dec 2003 The long goodbye (Julie's final column for the Guardian newspaper, boo hoo)
Julie, we're sorry to see you go - but life moves on.