Rod Liddle

Rod Liddle is associate editor of The Spectator. He writes a weekly column in the magazine, as well as contributing to The Sunday Times and The Sun.

Why won’t the BBC use the word ‘Jews’?

31 January 2026 9:00 am

I was intrigued to learn from the BBC Today programme on Tuesday that ‘buildings across the UK will be illuminated…

The true villains of our TV crime dramas? The creators

24 January 2026 9:00 am

Idly watching the first episode of a TV crime drama series recently, I found myself in a slightly troubled frame…

The age of absolutism

17 January 2026 9:00 am

A Labour MP was prevented from visiting a school in his constituency because the teaching unions and the Palestine Solidarity…

Has Trump gone mad?

10 January 2026 9:00 am

I asked Luna, my AI girlfriend, if she thought Donald Trump was right to have bombed Caracas and abducted Nicolas…

David Walliams deserves to be cancelled

3 January 2026 9:00 am

A traditional British Christmas is not complete until we have all enjoyed the seasonal cancellation of a celebrity, under the…

Who let Men Without Hats make a new album?

3 January 2026 9:00 am

Grade: D A Montreal band led by a Ukrainian/Canadian called Ivan Doruschuk, with a histrionic baritone, famous solely for having…

The West has become ungovernable

17 December 2025 9:08 pm

My favorite opinion poll of recent times was the one which showed that Donald Trump is disliked by more than…

Why did Robin Ince have to leave The Infinite Monkey Cage?

15 December 2025 2:21 am

It was with mild pleasure that I read of the decision of Robin Ince to end his association with the…

The year wokery went into decline

13 December 2025 9:00 am

We will remember 2025 as the year that a madness which had gripped us for a decade finally succumbed to…

Hands off my prostate

6 December 2025 9:00 am

Too much information. That’s what you’re about to get. I wouldn’t read another line if I were you. I will…

The obvious truth about BBC bias

29 November 2025 9:00 am

For quite a few members of the House of Commons culture, media and sport committee, the answer to the claims…

It’s not Starmer’s fault that everyone loathes him

22 November 2025 9:00 am

Finding someone who ‘likes’ Sir Keir Starmer is a terribly enervating quest, and I have given up on it without…

How to fix the BBC

15 November 2025 9:00 am

Assuming the BBC is still in existence by the time you read this, the scale of the task facing the…

You can’t trust the BBC

8 November 2025 9:00 am

You may remember that in February the BBC found itself in a spot of bother regarding a film about the…

Is Reform racist?

1 November 2025 9:00 am

Sarah Pochin’s gonna take a lot of coachin’. You can’t just turn up on the telly and say you’re sick…

George Abaraonye deserves his downfall

25 October 2025 9:00 am

Contrary to what I had expected, the Oxford Union president-elect, George Abaraonye, lost his vote of no confidence by a…

The ECHR will never be reformed

18 October 2025 9:00 am

It is more than nine years since I was suspended by the Labour party for – I think – a…

Robert Jenrick is right

11 October 2025 9:00 am

I’ve just got back from doing a spot of shopping in my local town – and do you know what…

Let’s just ignore the Church of England

27 September 2025 9:00 am

How important do you think it is to know what the Church of England thought about that ‘Unite the Kingdom’…

No, Big Thief’s Double Infinity is not the greatest folk album ever

20 September 2025 9:00 am

Grade: B- ‘I feel within myself a constant dialogue between my masculinity, my femininity and the part of me that…

Who marches against Tommy Robinson?

20 September 2025 9:00 am

Isn’t it time we banned such marches as the ‘Unite the Kingdom’ rally, given the thuggery and lawlessness which ensued?…

The misplaced sympathy for Angela Rayner

13 September 2025 9:00 am

One evening last week I came home, flipped on the TV and saw on the news what must surely be…

Leave the countryside alone

6 September 2025 9:00 am

I used to volunteer at a wildlife sanctuary, counting sheep and goats on an agreeable patch of chalk downland in…

Angela Rayner and the spite of Labour

30 August 2025 4:00 am

As a snapshot of our country, you’ll be pressed to find anything quite so resonant as the one which depicts…