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Rod Liddle

Rebekah Brooks takes her place in a perfect picture of modern Britain

An asphixiated badger? An obese burger eater? No, this is my Britain…

28 June 2014

9:00 AM

28 June 2014

9:00 AM

What image comes to mind when we think of Britain today? I was moved to contemplate this question after reading the Prime Minister’s inspiring treatise on British values, which seemed to involve ‘being quite nice’ and not referring to other people as kaffir and then trying to blow them up.

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