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.

Would you trust the public with a knife and fork?

21 July 2016 1:00 pm

I went to a restaurant in Middlesbrough back in the spring. It’s called the Brasserie Hudson Quay and occupies a…

At least Corbyn knows what he stands for

16 July 2016 9:00 am

My favourite comment about Angela Eagle came from some unnamed spiteful Corbynista MP who, with reference to her twin sister…

At least Corbyn knows what he stands for

14 July 2016 1:00 pm

My favourite comment about Angela Eagle came from some unnamed spiteful Corbynista MP who, with reference to her twin sister…

Forget the Grand Mess, here’s the fun stuff

9 July 2016 9:00 am

There’s something a little-dispiriting about waking up one morning to find that our elected politicians are even more psychopathic, deranged…

Forget the Grand Mess, here’s the fun stuff

7 July 2016 1:00 pm

There’s something a little-dispiriting about waking up one morning to find that our elected politicians are even more psychopathic, deranged…

Three great myths of the sulking Remainers

2 July 2016 9:00 am

I think my favourite moment of the referendum campaign was John Major’s intervention, a couple of weeks before polling day.…

Three great myths of the sulking Remainers

30 June 2016 1:00 pm

I think my favourite moment of the referendum campaign was John Major’s intervention, a couple of weeks before polling day.…

Can a nutter also be a terrorist?

25 June 2016 4:00 am

When is a nutter not a nutter, but a politically motivated terrorist? And are those two states of being always…

Can a nutter also be a terrorist?

23 June 2016 2:00 am

When is a nutter not a nutter, but a politically motivated terrorist? And are those two states of being always…

Rise of the atrocity exhibitionists

18 June 2016 9:00 am

Life is speeded up. It used to be that when a hideous atrocity occurred people waited a day or two,…

Rise of the atrocity exhibitionists

16 June 2016 1:00 pm

Life is speeded up. It used to be that when a hideous atrocity occurred people waited a day or two,…

Naked lunches and hidden bigotry

11 June 2016 9:00 am

Have you got your names down yet for the Bunyadi? I’d hurry, if I were you. There’s currently a waiting…

Naked lunches and hidden bigotry

9 June 2016 1:00 pm

Have you got your names down yet for the Bunyadi? I’d hurry, if I were you. There’s currently a waiting…

Way to go, Jeremy Corbyn – root out those Jew-haters!

4 June 2016 9:00 am

A long and arduous flight back from the Caucasus, but worth it nonetheless for the meaningful protest we had staged…

Yay, root out those Jew-haters, Jeremy!

2 June 2016 1:00 pm

A long and arduous flight back from the Caucasus, but worth it nonetheless for the meaningful protest we had staged…

Even fruitcakes and fascists are more popular than the flaccid centre

28 May 2016 9:00 am

A depression has settled on the Liddle household ever since Norbert Hofer narrowly failed in his bid to become the…

Voters have no time for the flaccid centre

26 May 2016 1:00 pm

A depression has settled on the Liddle household ever since Norbert Hofer narrowly failed in his bid to become the…

Rod Liddle: Labour’s putting me on trial for thought crime

21 May 2016 9:00 am

I got an email this week, from a chap called Harry, which began as follows: ‘I am writing to inform you…

Will Labour convict me of thought crime?

19 May 2016 1:00 pm

I got an email this week, from a chap called Harry, which began as follows: ‘I am writing to inform you…

The BBC needs to be rescued from its own groupthink

14 May 2016 9:00 am

I see that law students at Oxford University were told that if they found the contents of a lecture on…

Write a leftie column and win a doctorate

12 May 2016 1:00 pm

I see that law students at Oxford University were told that if they found the contents of a lecture on…

Let’s make assisted dying legal for Brightonians

7 May 2016 9:00 am

I am having terrible trouble with my hair at the moment. It is lank, flat and lifeless. There are split…

Let’s make assisted dying legal for Brightonians

5 May 2016 1:00 pm

I am having terrible trouble with my hair at the moment. It is lank, flat and lifeless. There are split…

The new, acceptable face of racism

30 April 2016 9:00 am

Exactly a year ago this week I was at a dinner party when a famous opinion pollster leaned over to…

The politically correct way to do racism

28 April 2016 1:00 pm

Exactly a year ago this week I was at a dinner party when a famous opinion pollster leaned over to…