Julie Burchill Julie Burchill

Romance isn’t a religion. Stop looking for The One and join The Queue

When people don't believe in God, it seems, one of the things they believe in is Mills and Boon

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issue 23 August 2014

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[/audioplayer]Pity the modern starlet. Be she steaming-hot pop-tart or reality-show show-off, her range of emotional experiences will, thanks mostly to the gentlemen of the press, be strictly limited. She will have ‘lonely hells’ (often but not always linked to ‘drug hells’), ‘sex romps’ (sometimes ‘three-in-a-bed’) and watch her life ‘spiralling out of control’.

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