Whenever I am sent a new book on the lively arts, the first thing I do is look for myself in the index.

I like 'spontaneous' as a sexual description. She later described her columns for her abbreviated Times contract which ended abruptly in 2007 thus: "I was totally taking the piss. The sons from her marriages with Parsons and Landesman lived with their fathers after the separations.

Beginning as a writer for the New Musical Express at the age of 17 Julie Burchill has written for newspapers such as The Sunday Times and The Guardian. She is a self-declared "militant feminist". Julie Burchill (born 3 July 1959) is an English writer.