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.

Fat-shaming works. Why else would I heave myself up and down hills for hours every day?

3 December 2015 3:00 pm

We have been contemplating moving to the North, for a variety of unassailable reasons. One is the chance to gloat…

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The French might as well bomb Belgium

28 November 2015 9:00 am

I am always open to spiritual guidance from any quarter, all the more so if that guidance is of practical…

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The French might as well bomb Belgium

26 November 2015 3:00 pm

I am always open to spiritual guidance from any quarter, all the more so if that guidance is of practical…

Of course there’s no morality in top-level sport

14 November 2015 9:00 am

Why do transgendered people need separate toilets? I thought, according to the prevalent orthodoxy, that the new gender they had…

Of course there’s no morality in top-level sport

12 November 2015 3:00 pm

Why do transgendered people need separate toilets? I thought, according to the prevalent orthodoxy, that the new gender they had…

Why can’t we get our minds around ME?

7 November 2015 9:00 am

Do you ever wake up worried that you have tiny fibres growing beneath your skin, all along your spinal column?…

Why can’t we get our minds around ME?

5 November 2015 3:00 pm

Do you ever wake up worried that you have tiny fibres growing beneath your skin, all along your spinal column?…

The hatred that Amis and Corbyn share

29 October 2015 3:00 pm

Everyone loves an underdog. It doesn’t matter how incompetent they might be — indeed, incompetence works in their favour. You…

The hatred that Amis and Corbyn share

29 October 2015 9:00 am

Everyone loves an underdog. It doesn’t matter how incompetent they might be — indeed, incompetence works in their favour. You…

Simon Schama’s migration muddle

24 October 2015 9:00 am

Sooner or later, in this trade, one runs out of television historians to antagonise. I am doggedly working my way…

Simon Schama’s migration muddle

22 October 2015 2:00 pm

Sooner or later, in this trade, one runs out of television historians to antagonise. I am doggedly working my way…

What the Great British Bake Off really says about Britain

17 October 2015 8:00 am

There was an interesting news item on the television the other day. A transgendered chap was hoping to become the…

What the Great British Bake Off really says about Britain

15 October 2015 2:00 pm

There was an interesting news item on the television the other day. A transgendered chap was hoping to become the…

Spittle is the only thing Labour has left

10 October 2015 9:00 am

I have started salivating excessively at night. I wake each morning in a pillowed swamp of my own effluvium, a…

Spittle is the only thing Labour has left

8 October 2015 2:00 pm

I have started salivating excessively at night. I wake each morning in a pillowed swamp of my own effluvium, a…

The home of Unicorn Poop ­ Cereal Killer Café (Photo: PA Images)

At least these rioters hate the right people

3 October 2015 9:00 am

I was unable to join the violent protests held by Class War at the Cereal Killer Café in London last…

The home of Unicorn Poop ­ Cereal Killer Café (Photo: PA Images)

At least these rioters hate the right people

1 October 2015 1:00 pm

I was unable to join the violent protests held by Class War at the Cereal Killer Café in London last…

I knew it! All these toffs have depraved tastes

26 September 2015 8:00 am

A friend of mine once watched Jeremy Corbyn try to rape an owl. This was the early to mid-1980s. The…

I knew it! All these toffs have depraved tastes

24 September 2015 1:00 pm

Listen http://rss.acast.com/viewfrom22/thegreatbritishkowtow/media.mp3 A friend of mine once watched Jeremy Corbyn try to rape an owl. This was the early to…

Why emote about migrants during a concert?

19 September 2015 8:00 am

How should we deal with people who sneeze in public places? Stephen Jackson, aged 49, has found himself in court…

Why emote about migrants during a concert?

17 September 2015 1:00 pm

How should we deal with people who sneeze in public places? Stephen Jackson, aged 49, has found himself in court…

Soon, having sex and having children will be utterly disconnected

12 September 2015 9:00 am

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

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…

The green ink brigade is now running the show

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…