At the end of June 2010 it was announced Burchill would be writing exclusively for "The Independent", contributing a weekly full-page column for the paper. The connection lasted less than 18 months. Burchill wrote her last column for "The Independent" at the end of October 2011. Admitting he had tried to recruit Burchill for "The Sun" in the 1980s, Roy Greenslade commented: "my admittedly occasional reading of her columns in recent years has left feeling that she realises her old schtick is no longer working. She has run out of steam – and sympathetic newspaper editors".