Julie Burchill Julie Burchill

The book that brought out the Lady Bracknell in me

A review of Language!: 500 Years of the Vulgar Tongue, by Jonathon Green. Julie Burchill thinks you can have too much of a bad thing

Rosie Lee anyone? [Getty Images/iStockphoto] 
issue 03 May 2014
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