Rod Liddle

Rod Liddle is associate editor of The Spectator. He writes a weekly column in the magazine, as well as contributing to The Sunday Times and The Sun.

A field guide to our doomed liberal elite

2 March 2017 3:00 pm

The latest and perhaps most damaging accusation to be levelled at Donald Trump is that he likes his steaks well-done…

Are satanic abuse cops 120 per cent gullible?

25 February 2017 9:00 am

I got lost in the forest near my house while walking the dog the other week. The path I was…

Are satanic abuse cops 120 per cent gullible?

23 February 2017 3:00 pm

I got lost in the forest near my house while walking the dog the other week. The path I was…

The dishonouring of David Beckham

11 February 2017 9:00 am

How will we remember him, do you suppose? If you’re a committed football fan, possibly for that exquisite chip from…

The dishonouring of David Beckham

9 February 2017 3:00 pm

How will we remember him, do you suppose? If you’re a committed football fan, possibly for that exquisite chip from…

Protest all you like. I won’t listen until you burn

4 February 2017 9:00 am

I think on balance I would prefer people to demonstrate their opposition to political developments — Brexit, the forthcoming state…

Protest all you like. I won’t listen until you burn

2 February 2017 3:00 pm

I think on balance I would prefer people to demonstrate their opposition to political developments — Brexit, the forthcoming state…

Brexit’s biggest political victims: Ukip

28 January 2017 9:00 am

Perversity is a much undervalued British trait, much more redolent of our real psyche than queuing, drinking tea or being…

Brexit’s biggest political victims: Ukip

26 January 2017 3:00 pm

Perversity is a much undervalued British trait, much more redolent of our real psyche than queuing, drinking tea or being…

The xx: I See You

21 January 2017 9:00 am

The xx is a trio of Londoners whose eponymous first album, released in 2009, has defined the way pop music…

Stupidity takes hold of another students’ union

21 January 2017 9:00 am

I had never heard the acronym Soas before I started work at the BBC, almost 30 years ago. But as…

The xx: I See You

19 January 2017 3:00 pm

The xx is a trio of Londoners whose eponymous first album, released in 2009, has defined the way pop music…

The xx: I See You

19 January 2017 3:00 pm

The xx is a trio of Londoners whose eponymous first album, released in 2009, has defined the way pop music…

Stupidity takes hold of another students’ union

19 January 2017 3:00 pm

I had never heard the acronym Soas before I started work at the BBC, almost 30 years ago. But as…

The lies we tell ourselves about the NHS

14 January 2017 9:00 am

The language of the left is a truly transformative grammar, so I suppose Noam Chomsky would heartily approve. There are…

The lies we tell ourselves about the NHS

12 January 2017 3:00 pm

The language of the left is a truly transformative grammar, so I suppose Noam Chomsky would heartily approve. There are…

My poster girl for free speech

7 January 2017 9:00 am

Now is the time of year to take down the Christmas decorations from your front window and put up, in…

My poster girl for free speech

5 January 2017 3:00 pm

Now is the time of year to take down the Christmas decorations from your front window and put up, in…

Why I was ashamed to love Status Quo

29 December 2016 3:00 pm

I bought a record in a second-hand shop in the summer of 1981. A double album. I made sure nobody…

Why I was ashamed to love Status Quo

29 December 2016 3:00 pm

I bought a record in a second-hand shop in the summer of 1981. A double album. I made sure nobody…

Rock’s quiet right-wingers

10 December 2016 9:00 am

They will be sitting there right now, listening tearfully to the song for one last time on their dinky little…

Rock’s quiet right-wingers

8 December 2016 3:00 pm

They will be sitting there right now, listening tearfully to the song for one last time on their dinky little…

The sexy new face of cigarette packaging

3 December 2016 9:00 am

Something for which to thank the government, at last. It is much, much more fun buying cigarettes these days. It…

The sexy new face of cigarette packaging

1 December 2016 3:00 pm

Something for which to thank the government, at last. It is much, much more fun buying cigarettes these days. It…

Prisons should be nicer places? Nonsense

26 November 2016 9:00 am

Now that post-Marxian vacuous liberalism is over, it is surely about time that we revived the vigorous writings of Thomas…