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.

David Bowie once praised Hitler… but he was always changing his tune

16 January 2016 9:00 am

I was desperately worried that you hadn’t read or heard enough platitudinous drivel about David Bowie — and therefore felt…

Bowie once praised Adolf Hitler… but he was always changing his tune

14 January 2016 3:00 pm

Listen http://rss.acast.com/viewfrom22/projectfear/media.mp3 I was desperately worried that you hadn’t read or heard enough platitudinous drivel about David Bowie — and…

Why we have to stand by foul, brutal Saudi Arabia

9 January 2016 9:00 am

The Saudis have got the new year off to a busy start, haven’t they? The authorities executed 47 people, including…

Why we have to stand by the foul, brutal Saudis

7 January 2016 3:00 pm

The Saudis have got the new year off to a busy start, haven’t they? The authorities executed 47 people, including…

The political wisdom of people who don’t even know what a circle is

2 January 2016 9:00 am

Why are liberals morons? I’m sure that this question has rattled around your mind before, perhaps when watching one of…

The political wisdom of people who don’t even know what a circle is

31 December 2015 3:00 pm

Why are liberals morons? I’m sure that this question has rattled around your mind before, perhaps when watching one of…

Two socialist triumphs (one of them for Marine Le Pen)

12 December 2015 9:00 am

What a pleasure it was to see two socialist parties triumph in the most recent elections. First, Labour increased its…

Hug, hold hands . . . then stampede to the right

10 December 2015 3:00 pm

What a pleasure it was to see two socialist parties triumph in the most recent elections. First, Labour increased its…

Fat-shaming works. Why else would I heave myself up and down hills for hours every day?

5 December 2015 9:00 am

We have been contemplating moving to the North, for a variety of unassailable reasons. One is the chance to gloat…

Fat-shaming works. Why else would I heave myself up and down hills for hours every day?

3 December 2015 3:00 pm

We have been contemplating moving to the North, for a variety of unassailable reasons. One is the chance to gloat…

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Why don’t the French bomb Belgium?

28 November 2015 9:00 am

I am always open to spiritual guidance from any quarter, all the more so if that guidance is of practical…

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The French might as well bomb Belgium

26 November 2015 3:00 pm

I am always open to spiritual guidance from any quarter, all the more so if that guidance is of practical…

It’s not just the Russians – there is no morality in top-level sport

14 November 2015 9:00 am

Why do transgendered people need separate toilets? I thought, according to the prevalent orthodoxy, that the new gender they had…

Of course there’s no morality in top-level sport

12 November 2015 3:00 pm

Why do transgendered people need separate toilets? I thought, according to the prevalent orthodoxy, that the new gender they had…

The ME lobby is just a symptom of our stupidity about mental illness

7 November 2015 9:00 am

Do you ever wake up worried that you have tiny fibres growing beneath your skin, all along your spinal column?…

Why can’t we get our minds around ME?

5 November 2015 3:00 pm

Do you ever wake up worried that you have tiny fibres growing beneath your skin, all along your spinal column?…

The hatred that Amis and Corbyn share

29 October 2015 3:00 pm

Everyone loves an underdog. It doesn’t matter how incompetent they might be — indeed, incompetence works in their favour. You…

The hatred that Martin Amis and Jeremy Corbyn have in common

29 October 2015 9:00 am

Everyone loves an underdog. It doesn’t matter how incompetent they might be — indeed, incompetence works in their favour. You…

On migration, my adversary Simon Schama doesn’t even have an argument

24 October 2015 9:00 am

Sooner or later, in this trade, one runs out of television historians to antagonise. I am doggedly working my way…

Simon Schama’s migration muddle

22 October 2015 2:00 pm

Sooner or later, in this trade, one runs out of television historians to antagonise. I am doggedly working my way…

What the Great British Bake Off really says about Britain

17 October 2015 8:00 am

There was an interesting news item on the television the other day. A transgendered chap was hoping to become the…

What the Great British Bake Off really says about Britain

15 October 2015 2:00 pm

There was an interesting news item on the television the other day. A transgendered chap was hoping to become the…

Spittle is the only thing Labour has left

10 October 2015 9:00 am

I have started salivating excessively at night. I wake each morning in a pillowed swamp of my own effluvium, a…

Spittle is the only thing Labour has left

8 October 2015 2:00 pm

I have started salivating excessively at night. I wake each morning in a pillowed swamp of my own effluvium, a…

The home of Unicorn Poop ­ Cereal Killer Café (Photo: PA Images)

Class War are fatuous idiots, but at least they hate some of the right people

3 October 2015 9:00 am

I was unable to join the violent protests held by Class War at the Cereal Killer Café in London last…