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The monstering of Boy George
If you want to stay sweet with the cultural establishment, never say anything nice about Jews. That’s the sick lesson…
The Green party tried to get me arrested
Sitting in the GB News greenroom on Sunday evening, I watched the two guests on air before me – one from…
Rod Liddle was a brilliant friend
I regarded Rod Liddle as a close, loyal and utterly brilliant friend for 42 years. We first met in 1984…
Trump’s posts aren’t alpha
For up to $100,000 a month, investment banks, hedge funds and algorithmic trading firms can now buy access to President Trump’s Truth…
Jimmy Cricket showed you didn’t have to be cruel to be funny
‘I used to be afraid of the dark. Yesterday, I got my electricity bill. Now I’m afraid of the light’.…
The Democrats’ Big Tent excuse
Somewhere in a Republican advertising agency, a young man is enjoying a cigar, ordering pizza and assembling the following TV…
Why progressives were desperate to believe Jason Arday
The Jason Arday affair has been a great revealer. On the one hand, it is a glorious romp that has…
Two wars are becoming one
Alarmed western observers are warning that the wars in Ukraine and Iran could merge into a single region-wide conflict. Ukrainian…
Rod was the most exciting boss I ever had
The best word for my feelings about Rod Liddle’s death is one that Rod was occasionally heard to use himself.…
My debt to Rod Liddle
Rod Liddle got me into journalism. We always had The Spectator lying around the house when I was young. I soon…
Is Tainan the world’s most dangerous city?
In a country full of brilliant food, the Garden Night Market in sultry Tainan, south-west Taiwan, is still a standout:…
How Rod Liddle shook up the BBC
The most striking thing about Rod Liddle when he arrived at the BBC as a trainee producer was how different…
The big hole in Reform’s naval migration plan
There’s something reassuring about Nigel Farage’s promise to stop the boats by sending in the Navy to return rescued migrants forcibly to…
The best of Rod Liddle’s Listener columns
Commissioning Rod on pop was easy. I’d email him a list of eligible albums and he’d ignore me and offer…
Lucy Powell is wrong to call the curriculum a ‘straitjacket’
And we’re off – Lucy Powell has followed up on Andy Burnham’s speech about providing high-quality technical education routes that are valued…
The best of Rod Liddle
Rod Liddle, a columnist and associate editor at The Spectator, has died at 66. You can read some extracts from…
Why I could never tone down Rod Liddle
Rod Liddle has died at the age of 66. In 2019, Fraser Nelson, then-editor of The Spectator, wrote about the…
Rod Liddle was one of the finest journalists of his generation
I only met Rod Liddle a few times, though at The Spectator and the Sunday Times I worked alongside him…
Tributes to Rod Liddle
The Spectator’s columnist and associate editor Rod Liddle has died aged 66. Tributes have poured in as his many dedicated…
As mad as it gets
Rod Liddle, associate editor of The Spectator, has died aged 66. This is the first column he wrote for the…
Rod Liddle, 1960 – 2026
Rod Liddle, The Spectator’s associate editor, has died at the age of 66. Rod, who was also a columnist for…
Is Reform serious about using the Navy to control migration?
It is 70 years since Donald McLachlan’s Daily Telegraph leader urged prime minister Sir Anthony Eden to demonstrate ‘the smack…
America can’t let the Japanese yen fail
In an extremely rare bilateral move, the US and Japan have intervened to shore up the Japanese yen, which has…
Why we are horrified by AI firms pulping books
‘Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.’ It would appear that…
Burnham doesn’t get why people are angry about migration
Andy Burnham coasted into No. 10 via an uncontested leadership election in which he was never forced to share his…
