Julie Burchill

Mocktails. Even the name sounds dodgy. Who is this apparently innocuous canned drink mocking, pray? Probably you, if you’ve shelled out close to four quid for a can of artfully tinted water. Like much today, mocktails in tins make me want to cross my...

The casual cruelty shown to the dying Henry Nowak speaks to the stinking rot of our DEI-ified police force.

'I almost died. instead I've got another day in this big, bad, beautiful world'

My father was a great admirer of the television show Dr Who , right from the start in 1964. Because I'm so old, I remember three Doctors: William Hartnell, Patrick Troughton and Jon Pertwee.

Russell T Davies is stuck in a purity spiral

Many of us have been flirted with by fruit; perhaps it can't help being fruity, following the principles of nominative determinism. ‘PLEASE DON'T

Many of us have been flirted with by fruit; perhaps it can’t help being fruity, following the principles of nominative determinism. ‘PLEASE DON’T SQUEEZE ME TILL I’M YOURS’ blushing peaches on market stalls used to beg, lest we bruise them with our...

I've always been keen on Kim Kardashian, going right back to the earliest years of her family reality show.

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 for the Sun, I even compared her to Helen of Troy – a modern day icon of beauty whose bum launched a...

For too long, the sexual side of gay men has been obscured by cuddly camp and trans pandering.