Rod Liddle
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…
Go on, own up: which of you female TV stars is secretly a godawful novelist?
I am still trying to get some sort of closure. For almost three weeks now I have been tormented by…
Is it ever possible to fight a war in full accordance with the Human Rights Act?
The ghost people, the letter people. The ones we hear about in court but never call by their real name;…
It’s a tough life when you wear a burka. Believe me, I know
I dressed up in a burka to wander around the streets of Canterbury recently, to see what level of Islamophobic…
What do we call the people who abducted Maria? It’s a minefield
How should we describe the people who allegedly abducted that little girl in Greece, after a neighbour claimed that they…
If we stop stigmatising fat people, we’ll have lots more of them
Trying to get good, healthy, nutritious food down the ungrateful throats of the lower orders, especially northerners, has become a…
Hugh Grant’s censorious friends may be about to win the day
It is a peculiar alliance, when you think of it, which wishes to bring to an end 300 years of…
Here we go again: say one word against an icon of the left and the phone won’t stop ringing
Ring, ring goes the telephone every minute God sends. Sometimes I pick it up and say hello, sometimes I don’t.…
Fury and loathing in the New Labour gang
There is a little vignette in the first volume of Alastair Campbell’s diaries that makes it abundantly clear that, at…
Does the BMA prefer real fags to 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 the kiddies 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…
The jury in the Zimmerman case paid too much attention to the evidence
I wonder what possessed the jury in the Trayvon Martin case to return two not guilty verdicts when they knew…
There’s only one thing that can unite the Middle East: Tony Blair
As if the poor Egyptians didn’t have enough on their plate, into the arena marches the man to sort it…
The latest brilliant idea over at Channel 4
It is very lucky for the BBC that Channel 4 exists. Whatever imbecilic, supposedly attention-grabbing trash the BBC commissions, there will…
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…