Millwall

I could never dislike Rod – even when he threatened to punch me

8 August 2026 9:00 am

I remember being in The Spectator’s offices on a Tuesday afternoon not long ago when I noticed a group of…

Rod had one great regret

8 August 2026 9:00 am

In 2019 I had to explain to Iain Dale – live on LBC – that Rod Liddle’s suggestion in his…

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My debt to Rod Liddle

4 August 2026 4:43 pm

Rod Liddle got me into journalism. We always had The Spectator lying around the house when I was young. I soon…

I admit it: I was wrong about the Premier League

9 May 2026 9:00 am

Yes, of course, one sometimes yearns for the old days. The friend who, appearing in court on a charge of…

End this hate speech against my community

13 July 2019 9:00 am

I am a football fan. Each fortnight I go to watch my club and, like the overwhelming majority of the…

Is it society’s job to stop people singing racist jokes?

2 February 2019 9:00 am

Where would you rather come from, Pakistan or Liverpool? Assuming you were somehow given a retrospective choice in the matter.…

Beyoncé? I prefer the anti-racists of Millwall

13 February 2016 9:00 am

My most thrilling moment of 2016 so far — aside from watching a smug-looking woman carrying a copy of the Guardian…

Thrills and chivalry at the most civilised place on earth

30 May 2015 9:00 am

If heaven is a place on earth, as Belinda Carlisle so wisely observed, then surely that place has to be…