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Julie Birchill has apologised to Ash Sarkar A CONTROVERSIAL columnist issued a grovelling apology over a two-week campaign of racist abuse towards another journalist. Julie Burchill, 61, has agreed to pay “substantial damages” to Ash Sarkar and issued a statement on her Twitter page about the “defamatory comments”. The Hove writer, who has worked for The Telegraph and The Spectator, waded in to a row between Ms Sarkar and right-wing columnist Rod Liddle. In an article in 2012, Mr Liddle wrote that if he were a teacher, he “could not remotely conceive of not trying to shag the kids”. The article was highlighted by left-wing journalist Ms Sarkar, claiming her disbelief that it had actually been printed by the right-wing magazine.