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.

Who’s in charge here?

5 April 2025 9:00 am

I heard the self-important whine of a police siren so pulled back the curtains a little to see what was…

The BBC isn’t even pretending to be impartial about Trump

4 April 2025 1:32 am

If, for some unfathomable reason, you missed Newsnight last night, do make sure you see, somehow, the interview between presenter…

Americans are right to hate us

29 March 2025 9:00 am

In an Appalachian high school, the kids were set the task of writing about Europeans as part of their history…

Is Keir Starmer a closet Tory?

23 March 2025 9:29 pm

Cindy Yu (CY): Slashing winter fuel allowance, keeping the two-child benefit cap, cutting foreign aid, cutting the civil service, axing…

The shape-shifting Labour party

22 March 2025 9:00 am

It is difficult to gauge who is the more discombobulated by the Labour government’s recent Damascene conversion to a political…

How to reform Reform

15 March 2025 9:00 am

In early June last year I had a reasonably agreeable meal with a bunch of Reform UK activists at a…

The weakness of Donald Trump

8 March 2025 9:00 am

Forgive the mordant tone, but this article was written in a desolate post-industrial nightmare girdled by diversionary roads going nowhere…

Why was there so little fanfare after David Johansen’s death?

3 March 2025 5:39 pm

We were twice transported back to the early 1970s this weekend, our memories snagged on the deaths of Roberta Flack…

The reformation of the Labour party

1 March 2025 9:00 am

The world order has shifted on its axis, having been given a peremptory boot by the US President. What is…

J.D. Vance didn’t go far enough on Europe

22 February 2025 9:00 am

In January last year the European Union revealed that it had dreamed up a ‘secret plan’ to sabotage the economy…

Trump’s Ukraine posturing is odious and immoral

20 February 2025 10:11 pm

As happens with every issue, the world is now neatly polarised about Mr Trump. There are those who refer to…

Je suis Andrew Gwynne

15 February 2025 9:00 am

How do you like your members of parliament? Do you prefer them to be vacuous automatons devoid of wit, humour…

Well done to the Channel 4 halfwits

8 February 2025 9:00 am

The number of people arriving here in small boats has increased since Sir Keir Starmer was elected Prime Minister on…

FKA Twigs is the most interesting pop musician we have right now

8 February 2025 9:00 am

Grade: A Hell, there’s a lot not to like, or even to be a little suspicious of, with this young…

The BBC always knew that Russell Brand was a lout

4 February 2025 12:16 am

Several women who worked with Russell Brand at the BBC have revealed that they were too scared to make official…

My money-saving tips for Rachel Reeves

1 February 2025 9:00 am

It is always upsetting to watch a woman enmired in distress and so I thought I might ride on my…

The truth about Southport

25 January 2025 9:00 am

When I first saw the headline I was highly optimistic. Sir Keir Starmer had identified the threat to society posed…

My guide to liberals

18 January 2025 9:00 am

Last Saturday I was making my way across the road from St Pancras to King’s Cross when I noticed a…

Trump 2.0 is more than a ‘vibe shift’

13 January 2025 3:45 am

People don’t like to use the term ‘vibe shift’, but I suspect it will turn out to be rather more…

Who’ll join my war against liberalism?

11 January 2025 9:00 am

I can see one possible benefit of having a full inquiry into the almost exclusively Muslim grooming gangs who raped…

What has the BBC got against Tommy Robinson?

7 January 2025 3:12 am

Do you know, I have noticed a certain thawing in the BBC’s attitude to the American entrepreneur, Elon Musk. I…

Is Reform unstoppable?

4 January 2025 9:00 am

Lying in bed pissed on Boxing Day night, I was visited by the ghost of Christmas Future, dressed in a…

The real best album of last year

4 January 2025 9:00 am

Grade: A+ In a desperate wish to avoid the appellation of a derided genre, this young man from Asheville, North…

Who is the worst political commentator?

21 December 2024 5:00 pm

We are approaching the deadline for the prestigious ‘Most Odious Political Commentator of the Year’ award. Alastair Campbell and Rory…