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.

How moderate are moderate Muslims?

23 April 2016 9:00 am

‘What’s in the news this week?’ I asked my wife as she browsed the first newspaper we had seen for…

Moderate Muslims are not particularly moderate

21 April 2016 1:00 pm

‘What’s in the news this week?’ I asked my wife as she browsed the first newspaper we had seen for…

Whoever invented the referendum deserves a kicking

9 April 2016 9:00 am

My favourite quote of the year so far comes from the author Fay Weldon. ‘If this were an all-woman society,’…

Whoever invented referendums needs a kicking

7 April 2016 1:00 pm

My favourite quote of the year so far comes from the author Fay Weldon. ‘If this were an all-woman society,’…

Why I feel compelled to defend Boris

2 April 2016 9:00 am

I got Boris Johnson into trouble once, without meaning to. The two of us had been driven hither and thither…

Why I feel compelled to defend Boris

31 March 2016 2:00 pm

I got Boris Johnson into trouble once, without meaning to. The two of us had been driven hither and thither…

Could a pot of yoghurt defeat David Cameron?

26 March 2016 9:00 am

I do not know if it has officially been measured, but my guess is that Christine Shawcroft, a member of…

Could a yoghurt defeat David Cameron?

23 March 2016 3:00 pm

I do not know if it has officially been measured, but my guess is that Christine Shawcroft, a member of…

Why Joan Bakewell must be right about anorexia

19 March 2016 9:00 am

You can always tell when a public figure has said something with the ring of truth about it by the…

What makes the white working class angry? Twits like Hsiao-Hung Pai

19 March 2016 9:00 am

This is a quite remarkable book. Badly written, devoid of anything even vaguely approaching a methodology, patronising, hideously mistaken on…

Why Joan Bakewell must be right about anorexia

17 March 2016 3:00 pm

You can always tell when a public figure has said something with the ring of truth about it by the…

How Britain deports the wrong people – and only the wrong people

12 March 2016 9:00 am

We can’t get rid of jihadis, sex-gang ringleaders and drug lords – so we try to deport old ladies

What do all these evil maniacs have in common?

5 March 2016 9:00 am

More bad publicity for the Islamic State’s ‘Kafir Tiny Tots and Babycare Service’. A burka-clad madwoman wandering through the streets…

What do all these evil maniacs have in common?

3 March 2016 3:00 pm

More bad publicity for the Islamic State’s ‘Kafir Tiny Tots and Babycare Service’. A burka-clad madwoman wandering through the streets…

Why are children in Guernsey extolling Islam to their parents?

27 February 2016 9:00 am

I have never been to the island of Guernsey. This is a large world and we have a finite amount…

Why are children in Guernsey extolling Islam to their parents?

25 February 2016 3:00 pm

I have never been to the island of Guernsey. This is a large world and we have a finite amount…

Farty, smelly and in love with Putin? You must be middle-aged

20 February 2016 9:00 am

There are things that happen when you grow older — bad things, harbingers of death and decay. Past the age of…

Farty, smelly and in love with Putin? You must be getting middle-aged

18 February 2016 3:00 pm

There are things that happen when you grow older — bad things, harbingers of death and decay. Past the age of…

Beyoncé at the Super Bowl? I prefer the anti-racists of Millwall

13 February 2016 9:00 am

My most thrilling moment of 2016 so far — aside from watching a smug-looking woman carrying a copy of the Guardian…

Beyoncé? I prefer the anti-racists of Millwall

11 February 2016 3:00 pm

My most thrilling moment of 2016 so far — aside from watching a smug-looking woman carrying a copy of the Guardian…

I want to see President Trump – if only because of who he’d annoy

6 February 2016 9:00 am

I suppose spite and schadenfreude are thinnish reasons, intellectually, for wishing Donald Trump to become the next American president (and…

What fun it will be if Trump becomes president

4 February 2016 3:00 pm

I suppose spite and schadenfreude are thinnish reasons, intellectually, for wishing Donald Trump to become the next American president (and…

If you’re stupid enough to let migrants in, at least treat them as people

30 January 2016 9:00 am

We were on our way to a party in south-east London when my friend, Rob, saw the graffiti. Sprayed with…

If you’re stupid enough to let all these people in, at least treat them decently

28 January 2016 3:00 pm

We were on our way to a party in south-east London when my friend, Rob, saw the graffiti. Sprayed with…

I hate to admit it, but Spike Lee is right about the Oscars and racism

23 January 2016 9:00 am

In 2017 it will be exactly 50 years since a dapper Sidney Poitier announced to Rod Steiger, in the excellent…