The Guardian Columns

The iconoclast of her generation, Julie Burchill has been thrilling and dismaying readers most recently in the Guardian on Saturday. Whether lampooning the cult of celebrity, old men who behave like young lads, two ex-husbands or the hypocrisy of New Labour and the middle classes, Britain's Worst Mother (a title bestowed on her by the Daily Mail) applies her idiosyncratic and dissecting wit to the world we think is around us.This is a collection of her Guardian columns from January 1998 through to December 2000, a period that has seen the Kosovo war, the decline and fall of the Dome, and the eventual election of a new American president.