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.

Soon, having sex and having children will be utterly disconnected

10 September 2015 1:00 pm

What is tougher for a kid? To be born black in a predominantly white neighbourhood, or to be born to…

Pig-ignorant click activists are in charge now. Jeremy Corbyn’s success proves it

5 September 2015 9:00 am

Daily they drop into my email account — alongside the more obviously useful stuff about how I might elongate my penis…

The green ink brigade is now running the show

3 September 2015 1:00 pm

Daily they drop into my email account — alongside the more obviously useful stuff about how I might elongate my penis…

I’m utterly sickened by this story of a man trying to talk to a woman on a train

29 August 2015 9:00 am

What can we as a society do about the relentless harassment of women by terrifying men? Menacing men, threatening men,…

I’m utterly sickened by this story of a man trying to talk to a woman on a train

27 August 2015 1:00 pm

What can we as a society do about the relentless harassment of women by terrifying men? Menacing men, threatening men,…

Who would have thought that about Ted Heath? Well…

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…

The BBC’s first director general, Lord Reith (Photo: Getty)

The story of the BBC

8 August 2015 9:00 am

The BBC was created out of the ether in 1922. Its first director general, Lord Reith, inhabited a cupboard some…

Who’d have thought that about Ted? Well…

6 August 2015 1:00 pm

In another blow for freedom and the protection of the vulnerable, Conservative MP Mark Spencer has suggested that anti-terror legislation…

Jeremy Corbyn won’t destroy Labour. But he might yet destroy the country

1 August 2015 9:00 am

Imagine, for a moment, the following scenario. In 2016 Britain votes narrowly to remain within the European Union, despite the…

If Corbyn becomes PM, I’m blaming you lot

30 July 2015 1:00 pm

Imagine, for a moment, the following scenario. In 2016 Britain votes narrowly to remain within the European Union, despite the…

Tim Farron, an evangelical Christian, is the victim of a secular inquisition

25 July 2015 9:00 am

I wonder who will win the battle for Tim Farron’s soul — the Guardianistas or God? This is assuming that…

The left pillories Tim Farron for his popular view

23 July 2015 1:00 pm

I wonder who will win the battle for Tim Farron’s soul — the Guardianistas or God? This is assuming that…

I’m off to join Islamic State. See ya, kafirs!

18 July 2015 9:00 am

I am getting heartily sick of being subjected to low-level racist and Islamophobic abuse whenever I go out wearing my…

I’m emigrating to Islamic State – see ya, kafirs!

16 July 2015 1:00 pm

I am getting heartily sick of being subjected to low-level racist and Islamophobic abuse whenever I go out wearing my…

The Holstentor

Grexit's a good start, but can we also kick out France, Spain and Portugal too?

11 July 2015 9:00 am

I think it is time to put into effect my plan for the re-shaping of the European Union. A somewhat…

The Holstentor

Forget the EU – we need the Hanseatic League

9 July 2015 1:00 pm

I think it is time to put into effect my plan for the re-shaping of the European Union. A somewhat…

Sorry, but you can’t take the Islam out of Islamic State

4 July 2015 9:00 am

At last, British politicians have been galvanised into action by the appalling events last weekend in the Tunisian resort of…

You can’t take the Islam out of Islamic State

2 July 2015 1:00 pm

At last, British politicians have been galvanised into action by the appalling events last weekend in the Tunisian resort of…

Roger Mosey and the questions you don’t ask at the BBC

27 June 2015 9:00 am

There was a remarkable scene in one BBC Today programme morning meeting in about 1995, as all the producers gathered…

The questions you don’t ask at the BBC

25 June 2015 1:00 pm

There was a remarkable scene in one BBC Today programme morning meeting in about 1995, as all the producers gathered…

Suicide bombing seems to have become a new Yorkshire tradition

20 June 2015 9:00 am

Where would you rather live, Dewsbury or Bradford? I ask because it seems that there are probably some good property…

Is suicide bombing now a Yorkshire tradition?

18 June 2015 1:00 pm

Where would you rather live, Dewsbury or Bradford? I ask because it seems that there are probably some good property…

Rod Liddle: why I’m supporting the #JustaTampon campaign

13 June 2015 9:00 am

I have spent the last few days posing with a tampon as part of an international campaign to demystify the…

My time of the month

11 June 2015 1:00 pm

I have spent the last few days posing with a tampon as part of an international campaign to demystify the…

Football’s elite deserve the foulness of Fifa

6 June 2015 9:00 am

My favourite moment in the crisis engulfing football’s governing body, Fifa, came with the intervention of a man called Manuel…