I've invented a new game. It's called 'Six Degrees of Shami Chakrabarti'
Can someone please explain to me why the BBC newsreaders were not wearing black armbands last weekend when reporting the…
Why I'm on board for the homophobic bus
London has long since lost its allure for me — altogether too many cars, foreigners, cyclists, middle-class liberals and people…
Why didn't Bridget Harris just slap Lord Rennard?
When I was promoted to being editor of a programme at the BBC, back in the late 1990s, my line…
Christians – and Muslims – still behave better than the rest of us
Two years ago this week the philosopher Alain de Botton unveiled his proposals for a giant gilded tower in central…
Why should Nigel Farage have to fight the ghost of Enoch Powell?
One of the genuine seasonal pleasures to be enjoyed as 2013 slipped around the U-bend was Enoch Powell making his…
Rod Liddle: Try my new year resolution - ignore the internet
At last, it has been scientifically proved that Jesus Christ is better than Muhammad. We’d always known that our lad…
Rod Liddle: Gordon Brown has vanished. Why?
It may come as a grave surprise to you that, when it was offered as a prize in a charity…
Is it racist to want a high street where you can understand the shop signs?
A very useful feature in the Daily Telegraph informs me of the best 20 towns in Britain ‘for Christmas’. Number…
Rod Liddle: The truths you can't tell in today's Britain
There are many truths that cannot be uttered in modern Britain
Which female media star wrote the right-wing Revolt? It says a lot that we can't think of many candidates
I am still trying to get some sort of closure. For almost three weeks now I have been tormented by…
Soldiers aren't social workers, Mr Cameron. Remember that before taking on hopeless wars
The ghost people, the letter people. The ones we hear about in court but never call by their real name;…
Off yer bikes! Cyclists are a menace to society — and self-righteous to boot
Why it’s time for a campaign against cycling
Rod Liddle: How I was bullied when I wore a burka
I dressed up in a burka to wander around the streets of Canterbury recently, to see what level of Islamophobic…
Rod Liddle: What do you call travellers when they are no longer travelling?
How should we describe the people who allegedly abducted that little girl in Greece, after a neighbour claimed that they…
Rod Liddle: If we don't stigmatise fat people, there'll be lots more of them
Trying to get good, healthy, nutritious food down the ungrateful throats of the lower orders, especially northerners, has become a…
Rod Liddle: Is Hugh Grant a pawn of the mad metropolitan left?
It is a peculiar alliance, when you think of it, which wishes to bring to an end 300 years of…
Rod Liddle: Ever since I criticised a leftist icon, the Beeb hasn't stopped calling me
Ring, ring goes the telephone every minute God sends. Sometimes I pick it up and say hello, sometimes I don’t.…
Rod Liddle: Under New Labour, it really was the loony left
There is a little vignette in the first volume of Alastair Campbell’s diaries that makes it abundantly clear that, at…
The BMA’s bizarre jihad against e-cigarettes
What strategy should we adopt to cope with the British Medical Association? Its members kill more people each year than…
The reassuring stupidity of John Kerry
The Syrian rebels who liberated the mountain village of Maaloula apparently immediately set about converting the predominantly Christian population to…
What are we supposed to say when a grooming ring comes to light?
It is a tragedy that some of us are born in the wrong times. According to that increasingly gobby conduit…
The sad story of Oprah, the handbag and the shop assistant
Listen, this story is moving so quickly stuff will almost certainly have happened in between me writing it and you…
This cant about protecting children from porn is really about protecting the coalition
I have tried very hard to become an afficianado of pornography, seeing as it is by far the most popular…
I don’t care about the royal baby. What’s wrong with me?
Driving along in the car on a pleasant evening earlier this week, I was happily humming along to the toe-tapping…
It’s not hate that Caitlin Moran can’t stand. It’s being disagreed with
Rod Liddle 10 August 2013 9:00 am
Hell, it’s been tough, but I think I’ve pulled through. I went out this morning to buy some cigarettes and…