Julie Burchill

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Writing and broadcasting career

She began writing at the New Musical Express (NME) in 1976, aged 17, after responding (coincidentally with her future husband Tony Parsons) to an advertisement in the paper encouraging "hip young gunlingers" to write about the then-emerging punk movement. Patti Smith's Horses won her employment by delivering a "eulogy" of the work. She later stated that at the time she only liked black music and added, "Oh my Lord!" she said. This isn't music, this is just shouting." "Apple-cheeked Ade has a complexion that will make a Devon milkmaid green with envy," she said on The Outsiders' Calling on Youth, which stars Adrian Borland. "Punk was over in two years," she later explained. That was the only damn good thing about it." She left her job at the NME at the age of 20, and began freelancing to write about other aspects of pop culture, though she hasn't stopped writing about pop music entirely.

The Face and The Sunday Times, where she wrote about politics, pop, fashion, and society, and was their film critic from 1984 to 1986, was her main employers after the NME. She confessed to writing up film reviews and being "skied" from screenings, and her ex-husband, Cosmo Landesman, has confessed to going to screenings on her behalf.

Burchill argued that General Galtieri's military tyrantry represented a greater evil during the Falklands War in 1982. Margaret Thatcher's books were praised by her. She expressed her sympathy for Thatcher in winning a column for the Mail on Sunday, when she went against the paper's traditional political line in 1987 by urging readers to vote Labour. Though she pretends to love the MoS, she wrote about journalists on the Daily Mail in 2008. "Everybody knows that hackers are the best bunch of adulterers, the most misdeed profession in the country, and there are people writing for the Daily Mail as if they are winners,... moralizing on single mothers and whatnot."

Burchill has often discussed her drug use, saying she had "put enough snout out to stun the entire Colombian armed forces." "As one who suffered from chronic boredom and a low boredom threshold, she confessed." I simply can't imagine that I would have ever had any kind of social life without [cocaine], let alone have reigned as Queen of the Groucho Club for a significant portion of the 1980s and 1990s. Though Burchill has often reflected on her personal life for her writing, her personal life has been a point of public discussion, particularly during the time when "everything about her – her marriages, her debauchery, and her children – seemed to be news."

Burchill, Landesman, and Toby Young created Modern Review, a short-lived newspaper in 1991, where she met Charlotte Raven, with whom she had a long public affair. "I] was only a lesbian for about six weeks in 1995," she said in a 2004 interview with Lynn Barber, or "my very enjoyable six months of lesbianism" in a 2000 essay. The magazine was released under the tag "Low culture for highbrows," but Burchill and her coworkers were forced to leave in 1995. In 1997, Burchill, with Raven editing, briefly revived it for a brief period. Burchill and author Camille Paglia's "fax war" in 1993, which was published in the Modern Review, drew a lot of attention.

Burchill wrote "I'm a bitch, and I'm proud" in 1995, in which she argued that women should reclaim the term 'bitch,' which is used as a slur. "It's the nature of these things that have caused the slighted to repossess the slight in recent years," she explained; pansies who say 'queer' and upper-class cretins who mumble the word 'Henry.'

Steven Berkoff, an actor, writer, and stage designer, received a libel suit against Burchill in 1996 for one of her papers, which included remarks about his appearance as "hideously ugly." Burchill's behavior, according to the judge, "held him to ridicule and contempt." Burchill's late 1990s were a turbulent period, as she has recalled: '

A cocaine user who was involved in Will Self's success, among other things, was positive about her use in The Guardian in 2000, when she helped actress Danniella Westbrook prevent her nasal septum from using cocaine. Deborah Orr, a journalist who was then married to Self, was scathing in The Independent of Burchill and her article: "She does not identify herself as a cocaine addict," she wrote. Ms. Westbrook has no sympathy for her. Burchill created a reportedly long-running crush on Will Self in the hopes of surprising Orr. Deborah Bosley, the head waitress at the Groucho Club at the time, caused a minor stir in The Independent in June 2000. When ensconced at the Groucho, responding to an article by Yvonne Roberts, a long-serving Burchill critic, said Burchill was just "a fat bird in a blue mac sitting in the corner."

Burchill's Burchill on Beckham (2001), a short book about David Beckham's life, work, and friendship with Victoria Beckham, produced "some of the worst reports since Jeffrey Archer's heyday. One reviewer said, 'Burchill is to football writing as Jimmy Hill is to feminist polemics.' "The book fits in with Burchill's theme of celebrating the working class; Burchill introduces Beckham as an anti-laddish symbol of old working-class values; he reminds her of those honorable men of her youth, 'paragons of kindness, industry, and chastity.'

Burchill wrote a weekly column in The Guardian for five years before 2003. Orr was appointed in 1998 by Orr, but Burchill's career was in jeopardy; the revived Punch magazine had her fired shortly. Burchill praised Deborah Orr for saving her. One of Jill Dando's pieces for The Guardian was written in reaction to the assassination of BBC TV presenter Jill Dando in 1999. She likened Dando's death to discovering a "tarantula in a punnet full of strawberries." "After an interview with a Guardian column where she referred Ireland as synonymous with child molestation, Nazi-sympathy, and female oppression, she barely escaped prosecution for incitement to racial violence." Burchill had expressing anti-Irish sentiment at various times throughout her career, including in the London journal Time Out that "I loot the Irish people, I think they're appalling."

She favored the Iraq war and wrote in The Guardian in 2003 that she was "in favour of a smaller war rather than a much worse war" and chastised those opposed to the war as "pro-Saddam apologists." "This war is about liberty, justice, and oil," she said, and that, since Britain and the United States sold arms to Iraq, "it is our responsibility to redress our greed and ignorance by doing our part in getting rid of him."

Burchill left The Guardian acrimoniously, saying in an interview that they had given her a couch in lieu of a pay increase. She said she quit the newspaper in protest at what she saw as its "vile anti-Semitism" message.

Burchill was a pioneer of denigrating lower social classes as "chavs." In 2005, she hosted In Defence of Chavs, a Sky One documentary. "You shouldn't humour" when picking someone worse off than you are. In an interview for The Daily Telegraph at the time, she said, "It's pathetic, it's cowardly, and it's bullying." "It's all about self-loathing." ... People are having more fun, so they've vowed to sue Chavs for things like their cheap jewelry. It's jealousy, because Chavs are more capable than them. They're even better looking."

Following her release from The Guardian in early 2005, she moved to The Times, who were more able to accommodate her needs, doubling her previous salary. She began her weekly column with George Galloway but quickly confused him with former MP Ron Brown, who referred to Brown's misdeeds as those of Galloway. "He encouraged Arabs to combat British forces in Iraq." She apologised in her column, and The Times paid £50,000 in damages.

The Times canceled her Saturday column and replaced it with a more flexible schedule with Burchill writing for the daily newspaper in 2006. Later in a Guardian interview published on August 4, 2008, it was revealed that she "was given the jolly old heave ho" by The Times and decided not to pay the last year of her three-year contract, despite her earning the £300,000 she would have earned if she had been obliged to provide a copy. "I was totally taking the piss," she wrote about her abbreviated Times contract, which came to an end in 2007. I didn't have time to investigate them because they were such frivolous garbage."

She unveiled plans in February 2006 for a year of sabbatical from journalism, planning, and, among other things, to research theology. In June 2007, she declared that she would not return to journalism but rather focus on writing books and TV scripts and eventually pursue a theology degree. But, she returned to writing for The Guardian newspaper.

Burchill's co-written book with Chas Newkey-Burden, Not in My Name: A Compendium of Modern Hypocrisy, was released in August 2008 and dedicates "to Arik and Bibi" (Ariel Sharon and Benjamin Netanyahu). "This book does not only stand up for Israel," says Gerald Jacobs, who wrote for The Jewish Chronicle in 2008, "it leaps up and down, cheers, and waves its arms." "Israel's tenaciousest promoter in the UK media," the newspaper referred to her as "Israel's tenaciousest backer in the UK media." When asked if Israel has any flaws, she replied, "Yes." They are much more tolerant of their frenzied neighbors, much too generous.

"Israel is the only country I will die for," she said in 2005, after Ariel Sharon's deposition of Israeli settlers from Gaza's Gaza strip. He is the enemy of the Jews. Chucking his own people off the Gaza border is revolting, to me. She contributed four essays for the centre-right politics and culture magazine Standpoint between July and October 2008, in addition to writing occasional pieces for The Guardian.

Burchill will be writing exclusively for The Independent at the end of June 2010, contributing a weekly full-page column for the newspaper. The relationship lasted less than 18 months. Burchill wrote her last column for The Independent in October 2011. Roy Greenslade wrote that admitting to trying to recruit Burchill for The Sun in the 1980s: "My admittedly occasional reading of her columns in recent years has left [me] the impression that her old schtick is no longer working." She has run out of steam – and sympathetic newspaper editors.

Burchill wrote in The Independent, "It would be wonderful to know that what replaces Mubarak will be better." But here's the thing about Middle Eastern regimes: they're all vile. The ones that are 'friendly' are vile, while the ones that hate us are vile. Revolutions in the area have a tendency of going horribly wrong, and it may have a lot to do with the fact that Islam and democracy seem to have a difficult time coexisting for long."

Following Moore's mention of transsexuals in a lot of skepticism, Burchill wrote an article for The Observer on January 13, 2013. It demonstrated the "chutzpah" of transsexuals to have their "cocktails cut off and then plead special privileges as women in Burchill's view. Members of the transgender community and non-transgender groups alike expressed opposition to her writing. On the comments page, The Observer's editor, John Mulholland, replied to what he described as "many emails protesting this piece" and said he would be investigating the subject. Lynne Featherstone, a former Minister for Women and Equalities, has called for the dismissal of Burchill and Mulholland in reaction to the story. The article was deleted from the website and replaced by Mulholland's with a note, but the Telegraph website had it back. Editor Stephen Pritchard defended the decision to delete the article from the newspaper's website on January 18th, quoting the editor who made the decision as saying, "This clearly fell outside what we might consider fair." The piece should not have been released in that manner. I don't want the Observer to be having discussions on those terms or using the terms that are not used. It was offensive and needlessly. We made a mistake and we're sorry for it."

Burchill criticized "the anti-Semitism of politicized American blacks" in an interview from 1987, such as Jesse Jackson, who had referred to New York City as "Hymietown." "Imagine how the blacks might have gnashed their diamond-studded teeth if a Jewish leader had openly referred to Harlem as 'Nigger-town,' Burchill wrote. "Apologies" are the words used to describe a 'famous' appearance."

Burchill said she "found God" and became a Lutheran and later a "self-confessed Christian Zionist." In June 2007, she announced that she would pursue a theology degree, but that she later decided to do voluntary work in the hopes of learning more about Christianity.

Burchill had become a friend of Brighton and Hove Progressive Synagogue, and was considering a Judaism conversion. She had attended Shabbat services for a month and had been learning Hebrew, indicating that she had been debating her conversion from the age of 25. "At a time of growing and more violent anti-semitism from both left and right, Burchill said, it is particularly relevant to me." ... Given that I adore Israel so much, it does make sense – assuming that the Jews will have me. "The things I love about the Jews are: their faith, their language, and their ancient homeland," she wrote in November 2012.

Burchill clashed with Rabbi Elli Tikvah Sarah of the Brighton and Hove Progressive Synagogue, as well as Rabbi Jess Woods, Rabbi Beneh's lesbian companion. Rabbi Sarah's defense of Muslims and her support for the Palestinian cause were among the reasons for their splits. The rabbi "respects PIG ISLAM" in Burchill's terms. "The issue is [Burchill] doesn't have any in-depth knowledge," Rabbi Sarah told The Independent in September 2014. With Paul Newman's film Exodus, I can imagine her endlessly. She has a very Hollywood view of Jews. "Jews are so smart, we've survived...'" says the narrator.

Unchosen, Burchill's crowdfunded book Unchosen: The Memoirs of a Philo-Semite was released in 2014. "The reactionary solipsism of Unchosen is quite removed from the affectionate warmth that a love of the Jewish people can be." Cosmo Landesman, Burchill's ex-husband, regarded it as a "exciting and frustrating combination of the utterly brilliant and the utterly bonkers" in a "exciting and exasperating blend of the utterly brilliant and the entirely bonkers." "There are plenty of Jews Julie does not love," he says, including the "millions of Jews around the world who have ever condemned Israel." To such an obvious contradiction, her love is blind, deaf, and dumb. "Burchill divides the chosen people into Good Jews (hardliners, Israelites) and Bad Jews (liberal Jews) with the enthusiasm of an antisemite," Guardian columnist Hadley Freeman wrote. She identifies herself as the Jewishness Police, railing against Jews who are not Jewish enough." Keith Kahn-Harris' review in The Independent described Unchosen as "occasionally touching, occasionally grandoted, and sporadically amusing" but that it "often degenerates into EDL-style violence that lacks any redeeming humor."

Burchill has written books and produced television shows. Sugar Rush (2004), her lesbian-themed book for teenagers, was turned into a Shine Limited television drama series. Maria Sweet's portrayal of the central character in Lenora Crichlow's 2007 sequel book Sweet was inspired by Lenora Crichlow's portrayal of the central character Maria Sweet. Burchill also produced television documentaries about her father's death from asbestosis in 2002 (BBC Four) and Heat magazine broadcast on Sky One in 2006.

Welcome To The Woke Trials: How #Identity Killed Progressive Politics was supposed to be published by Tabatha Stirling Publishing in summer 2021 after being refused by the original publisher after Burchill's defamatory tweets to Ash Sarkar. "I've found someone who's JUST LIKE ME" writes Burchill, referencing her new publisher Burchill, on March 14, 2021. Stirling is accused of writing a series of articles for Patriotic Alternatives, including "Miss Britannia" and claiming that "one member of staff who is openly gay, including RuPaul"; Burchill said on March 16, 2021, she would not publish her book with Stirling Publishing, the same day she revealed a public apology for libel and bullying of Sarkar. Academica Press later published the book.

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