Burchill's back


By TimLuckhurst - Posted on 07 July 2010

Banish propriety, abandon caution and prepare to laugh: Julie Burchill, the 51 year-old former 'hip young gun slinger' and, more recently, superstar polemicist, has a new column in the Independent. There are several reasons to celebrate - let's start with the evidence that Alexander Lebedev can afford to invest in expensive columnists - but king among them - for me at least - is that JB remains an acute, challenging and funny voice in a market where too many are  constrained by fear that they might offend somoene. She will offend lots of people, deliberately. Read her first Indy column here.