“What was so thrilling about Julie Burchill’s columns — apart from the laugh-out-loud humour and dazzling prose — was that she managed to be both intellectually consistent and genuinely unpredictable. You might love her work on the woman-hating mullahs of the Islamic world and their sexually inadequate apologists in the west, only to find yourself scratching your head the next day as she praised Stalin or Posh Spice. Too many blogs are as predictable as a column in The Sun or Independent. More personality, please!”
