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.

Naked lunches and hidden bigotry

9 June 2016 1:00 pm

Have you got your names down yet for the Bunyadi? I’d hurry, if I were you. There’s currently a waiting…

Way to go, Jeremy Corbyn – root out those Jew-haters!

4 June 2016 9:00 am

A long and arduous flight back from the Caucasus, but worth it nonetheless for the meaningful protest we had staged…

Yay, root out those Jew-haters, Jeremy!

2 June 2016 1:00 pm

A long and arduous flight back from the Caucasus, but worth it nonetheless for the meaningful protest we had staged…

Even fruitcakes and fascists are more popular than the flaccid centre

28 May 2016 9:00 am

A depression has settled on the Liddle household ever since Norbert Hofer narrowly failed in his bid to become the…

Voters have no time for the flaccid centre

26 May 2016 1:00 pm

A depression has settled on the Liddle household ever since Norbert Hofer narrowly failed in his bid to become the…

Rod Liddle: Labour’s putting me on trial for thought crime

21 May 2016 9:00 am

I got an email this week, from a chap called Harry, which began as follows: ‘I am writing to inform you…

Will Labour convict me of thought crime?

19 May 2016 1:00 pm

I got an email this week, from a chap called Harry, which began as follows: ‘I am writing to inform you…

The BBC needs to be rescued from its own groupthink

14 May 2016 9:00 am

I see that law students at Oxford University were told that if they found the contents of a lecture on…

Write a leftie column and win a doctorate

12 May 2016 1:00 pm

I see that law students at Oxford University were told that if they found the contents of a lecture on…

Let’s make assisted dying legal for Brightonians

7 May 2016 9:00 am

I am having terrible trouble with my hair at the moment. It is lank, flat and lifeless. There are split…

Let’s make assisted dying legal for Brightonians

5 May 2016 1:00 pm

I am having terrible trouble with my hair at the moment. It is lank, flat and lifeless. There are split…

The new, acceptable face of racism

30 April 2016 9:00 am

Exactly a year ago this week I was at a dinner party when a famous opinion pollster leaned over to…

The politically correct way to do racism

28 April 2016 1:00 pm

Exactly a year ago this week I was at a dinner party when a famous opinion pollster leaned over to…

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