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Julie BurchillNew Statesman |
Rather like Andy Burnham, you can imagine a younger version of Zia Yusuf being sent into Love Island in the third week – when things are getting a...
I was on friendly terms with Rod Liddle for quite a few decades. He applied for the job I got when I was 17 at the New Musical Express, which kicked...
When I was a young punk, my favourite badge (we loved badges!) was a big white one which a reader sent me and which simply read I HATE STUDENTS YEAH!...
In the interests of complete candour, I should reveal that Dawn French and I have had ‘beef’ (and how suitable that word is, as we were both...
Like a lot of things, it started with Harold Wilson. This deceptively homely politician was the Queen’s first Labour leader and not reckoned to be...
We’re living in a golden age of parliamentary sketch writing; never have so many been made mincemeat of by so few. Our own Madeline...
As one who’s always been keen on putting their hand up and admitting to their faults (a perverse form of boasting, I suspect) I...
Baby boomers, the generation born between 1946 and 1964, get a lot of flak from younger generations. The argument goes that boomers had every...
Oh Thomas Tuchel, how I love you! Unlike the last boss of the England team, Saint Gareth of Southgate, there’s no smart suit and fashionable...
Before I became confined to a wheelchair two years ago after an operation for a spinal abscess, I’d never read a book about disability. More...
Before I became confined to a wheelchair two years ago after an operation for a spinal abscess, I’d never read a book about disability. More...
I knew that the endless hours I’d spent watching reality TV would one day stand me in good stead in my trade – and now it’s happened. For Andy...
I didn’t fully realise how much Brexit Derangement Syndrome – the reaction to being on the losing side in the 2016 referendum – had got hold of...
I’ve always been keen on Kim Kardashian, going right back to the earliest years of her family reality show. At one point in an over-excited piece...
I’ve always been keen on Kim Kardashian, going right back to the earliest years of her family reality show. At one point in an over-excited piece...
Many of us have been flirted with by fruit; perhaps it can’t help being fruity, following the principles of nominative determinism. ‘PLEASE...
Mocktails. Even the name sounds dodgy. Who is this apparently innocuous canned drink mocking, pray? Probably you, if you’ve shelled out close to...
As I’m an OAP, it’s not very often that I see an amusing online game I got into early trending online, so imagine my glee on seeing the...
Mocktails. Even the name sounds dodgy. Who is this apparently innocuous canned drink mocking, pray? Probably you, if you’ve shelled out close to...
Regarding the possible candidates for the Labour leadership, I’ve travelled so far down the nihilistic road to nowhere that I’m afraid I judge...
When I was in the rehabilitation hospital in the winter of 2025, one of my favourite nurses said, as she removed my night-bag one frosty morning,...
What does a star need? A great lawyer, a good publicist, a silent plastic surgeon on speed dial – and fans, lots of them. Since the rise of...
Like most people of my age – I’m 66 – I grew up in a time when politics was a tribal thing, like supporting a football team. My earliest...
What does a star need? A great lawyer, a good publicist, a silent plastic surgeon on speed dial – and fans, lots of them. Since the rise of...
What does a star need? A great lawyer, a good publicist, a silent plastic surgeon on speed dial – and fans, lots of them. Since the rise of...
What does a star need? A great lawyer, a good publicist, a silent plastic surgeon on speed dial – and fans, lots of them. Since the rise of...
What does a star need? A great lawyer, a good publicist, a silent plastic surgeon on speed dial – and fans, lots of them. Since the rise of...
At some point in the later part of the 20th century, I had a colossal crush on the writer Will Self. I wasn’t the only one; on one memorable day,...
When I became wheelchair-bound at the end of 2024, the biggest change I had to deal with was not being able to walk any more on my lovely long legs....
Age gaps in relationships can provoke strong reactions – admiration, suspicion, even outrage. For some, they’re proof that love can transcend life...
We’re not used to famous pedophiles having a great talent; perhaps because all of their drive goes into their secret obsession, they’re generally...
We’re not used to famous paedophiles having a great talent; perhaps because all of their drive goes into their secret obsession, they’re generally...
There are times when it seems that violence against women and girls – forever these days being hand-wrung over by useless politicians as their...
There are times when it seems that violence against women and girls – forever these days being hand-wrung over by useless politicians as their...
One of the funniest – and in my opinion, falsest – things women have long said is ‘I’m doing it for myself – not for men’ about...
It’s officially become both springtime and British Summer Time since we last spoke, and though everyone but the most miserable soul will be pleased...
It’s funny that the George Orwell statue outside the BBC’s Broadcasting House has a quote etched nearby from a proposed preface to Animal Farm:...
There are few things more savagely amusing than a disgraced member of the BBC becoming indignant. (‘Member’ seems the oddly appropriate word,...
Bottomless brunch: it sounds disreputable, to start with. There’s the suggestion of indecency; that lower garments are optional, perhaps on the part...
There are a lot of things that Ozempic & Co. have killed business for. Weight Watchers. Diets from cabbage soup to the boiled egg. Fat-but-jolly...
There are a lot of things that Ozempic & Co. have killed business for. Weight Watchers. Diets from cabbage soup to the boiled egg. Fat-but-jolly...
There are a lot of things that Ozempic & Co. have killed business for. Weight Watchers. Diets from cabbage soup to the boiled egg. Fat-but-jolly...
I almost spat out my toast (smothered with the As Ever, The Raspberry Spread Trio – “Made To Keep On Hand And Enjoy Often,” $42...
I almost spat out my toast (smothered with the As Ever, The Raspberry Spread Trio – ‘Made To Keep On Hand And Enjoy Often’ $42 – natch) in...
What do you think of when you think of Jameela Jamil? (I realise that I may be talking to the wrong demographic here, but bear with me, and I...
When the ghastly Lynda Snell of The Archers ‘did’ fasting last year at Ramadan in order to suck up to the new Muslim family in town, I thought...
During my long stay in hospital last year, my friend Katie made me laugh when she came to visit me, bringing a perfume called KARMA as a gift. Ironic,...
They say you can never go home again, but if I think of my hometown of Bristol – and my adopted hometown of Brighton and Hove – the similarities...
They say you can never go home again, but if I think of my hometown of Bristol – and my adopted hometown of Brighton and Hove – the similarities...
Until around a decade back, most of us either watched the Eurovision Song Contest because it was extremely camp, or for what passed for the...
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