Why is Julie Burchill so obsessed with class?

[sundayrose10]

She is a huge Cheryl Cole fan because Cheryl is working class and hates Lily Allen because Lily is from a middle class background.

Most of her articles mention class. Why?

'Green is the first socio-political movement in which every single leader and spokesperson is filthy rich - they make the Conservative party look like the Jarrow marchers'.

Spot on. She knows her onions.

There is much sagacity in her writings. I have a feeling she understands the score.

www.independent.co.uk/opinion/columnists/julie-burchill/julie-burchill-so-the-prince-of-green-hypocrites-is-going-on-tour-thank-god-ill-be-abroad-2055351.html

I bet that socialist Tony Parsons bangs the drum of global warming. She is made of different stuff.

I love her. She is excellent in everyway

I don't think people talk nearly enough about class - or rather, not intelligently enough about class.

Sadly, i don't think Julie Burchill helps.

did i mention i love her?

Many of her socialist views are wrong, but her heart is in the right place. She defends the working class against the hypocrite elitist, millionaire greens, because she understands what they want to do to the working class.

Im on her side as well. I grew up looking up to her. I dont always agree with her views but, she is witty and bright. I love Miranda Sawyer as well. I think its an age thing.

give me her over Liz Jones any day!!

I take it back about Tony Parsons. He is not as bad as I thought. He is not as switched on as Julie about global warming, but with time he may get there.

www.mirror.co.uk/news/columnists/parsons/2007/03/19/we-ve-all-bin-had-by-little-phewrers-115875-18775238/

Johan Hari is from a wc background and often has sensible and cogent things to say about class.

Claig do you actually read the links you post? That article (by a proper journalist, Michael White) actually makes Julie Burchill look like a fool (not that she needs much help), which she is by and large.

Interesting to see you defend a communist btw, your favourite comic the Daily Mail has had a few choice words to say about her in the past as I'm sure you know

Last time I could bring myself to read a column of hers it contained this gem:

I've had five abortions ? or was it six? I can never remember. And each time I saw scenes bordering on jubilation when women woke up and realised the deed was done. Of course there are cry babies who go away and beat themselves up. But they're probably the type who cry at romcoms and funerals.

Dont agree with Lilly Allen On much but her recent assessment of her as a An attention seeking bitter old troll seems pretty much spot on.

Yes I read that piece by Michael White. I much prefer Julie Burchill to his predictable, typical Guardian spiel. I linked the article to show that she is against the majority who believe in global warming. For someone on the left that is very rare.

She used to write for the Daily Mail.

She is not right on many things, but on global warming, she is spot on.

She is now a rich, middle class woman - she is a professional writer and journalist and made a great deal of money from property as well.

(If she still classifies herself as working class, then that might be an interesting light on why social mobility has reportedly stalled in UK).

The terms in which she speaks of her drug abuse mean I cannot find her admirable.

I've read her in the past and she does have some gifts, as a writer definitely, and as someone with a different view sometimes, which can be refreshing, in the beigeness of the middle-class media.

But other times, more recently too, I think she can be a giant bore. I read her article about Lily Allen and it was one of the most boring, stupid pieces of journalism I have read for a long time. She just kept saying how beautiful she (Lily Allen was) and how she shouldn't listen to old journalists like herself ...

sundayrose Burchill has a very burchill take on life. She is funny and serioud at the same time And has written for most national newspapers Lily Allen is not middle class nor is her actor dad and cheryl is no longer working class