Julie Birchill

[Andrew_Culture]

 

[Fab Foodie]

the trailer was enough for me.

And me.

 

[Poacher]

I still think she and Tony "cycling is like masturbation - you grow out of it" Parsons deserved each other. Hate them both.

 

[rich p]

Intensely irritating on DID, to such an extent that I had to turn it off despite her choosing Freda Payne's Band of Gold

 

[yello]

Agreed rich, 'Band of Gold' was an excellent pick and I loved her reasoning for it. Her 2nd choice wasn't bad either but, in all honesty, I couldn't really work out was was motivating the rest. The thing they perhaps all had in common was a stirring emotional content. I'd really like to understand Julie's identifying with the nation of Israel. She does like to be contrary (as we all know!) but I felt there was actually something genuine underpinning it (rather than a simple desire to mark out her difference).

I raised an eye brow to her admission that she didn't like punk. I can well believe it but it never-the-less played an important part in her life - even if only as something to define herself by/against.

Reminds me of a line in The Smiths 'Panic' (the "Hang the DJ one") - something like "it says nothing to me about my life" ('it' being the music played in discos). I always thought it quite the opposite and the dislike of such music said a great deal, defined even.

 

[Yellow Fang]

She is an annoying controversialist, although maybe not as bad as James Dellingpole.

 

[yello]

Spooky....

A song has just started on the radio, a contemporary of Julie Burchill - both in era and journalism - Chrissie Hynde. 'I'll Stand By You'. The opening lines always send shivers down my spine.

I will unashamedly admit to loving Chrissie Hynde. She sings it like it is.

 

[Crackle]

I remember when she started writing a column for the Grauniad and trying to justify her previous comments on loony left-wing yurt dwelling liberal nutters, her reasoning just didn't ring true.

I will never figure out why the Grauniad ever took her on. I mean I know why but I don't. Nothing she ever writes chimes with what I think or how I see things. She seems to live in her own self-publicising irrelevant bubble.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

...Tony "cycling is like masturbation - you grow out of it" Parsons...

Both, when?

 

[User482]

It's Bristolian, innit? Think Vicki Pollard.

I'm not convinced - people from Bristol don't really talk like that, especially ones who left 30 years ago...

 

[slowmotion]

I enjoyed The Boy Looked at Johnny, but that was rather a long time ago. She seems to have become increasingly ghastly since then.

 

[clarion]

She is an annoying controversialist, although maybe not as bad as James Dellingpole.

That praise is just the right shade of faint. I'd agree with that.

I can't be bothered wasting my hate on her.

 

[slowmotion]

She is an annoying controversialist, although maybe not as bad as James Dellingpole.

Good comparison!

 

[Christopher]

I am amazed anyone cares one way or the other. She has nothing interesting or orignal to say.

 

[mark st1]

Id say the votes cast are a conclusive result.