She's gone! (No, not who you think)

[zotz]

Julie Burchill has taken Murdoch's shilling. Can I be the first to say Good Riddance? What I want to know is whether she kept the Guardian slot by bribery or blackmail. I suspect the latter, because she had it for an awfully long time and doesn't come from a rich family (or have any other visible means of support).

She'll fit in better at the Chunderer anyway. Of course, time was when it wouldn't have stooped to employing La B, but it's a long way down from where they were to where they are.

And in other news, something I saw reposted on ed.general today. For fans of the accursed Xena who recognise operetta when they see it: http://groups.google.co.uk/groups?q=Basileia+Makhetes&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&safe=off&selm=36AB2D83.77CFC845%40imrryr.demon.co.uk&rnum=1

Comments

[swisstone.livejournal.com]

Ah, I'll miss her appalling inverted snobbery, her bizarre prejudice against the acting profession, her hypocrisy and inconsistency on homosexuality, her irrational way of taking an initially sound point to absurd and irrational links ... actually, no I won't. I always used to read her column, just to see what she said, even though I knew I probably wouldn't agree with it. But about six month ago, I decided life was too short for Julie Burchill.

[reddragdiva]

Ah, but have you ever read one of her bloody novels? Now there's a waste of valuable seconds of one's life.