Julie Burchill Julie Burchill

Why I detest clothes with words on

And as for carrying a clutch bag made in the image of a book…

issue 03 January 2015

As a provincial teenage virgin with ideas so far above my station that they gave me vertigo, I frequently reflected bitterly that whoever coined the phrase ‘Schooldays are the best days of your life’ must have come to that conclusion after being involved in a serious car-crash the evening following their last day at school, probably rendering them a tetraplegic.

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