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Rod Liddle

Who would have thought that about Ted Heath? Well…

Sometimes – and maybe, it seems, this time – there is something to be said for instinctive disgust

8 August 2015

9:00 AM

8 August 2015

9:00 AM

In another blow for freedom and the protection of the vulnerable, Conservative MP Mark Spencer has suggested that anti-terror legislation should be used to punish teachers who hold ‘old-fashioned’ views about homosexuality and perhaps divest themselves of these views to their pupils. I assume this could mean simply reading out bits of the Bible — that pungent little verse in Leviticus, perhaps, with its reference to ‘detestable acts’.

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