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.

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…

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

At least these rioters hate the right people

1 October 2015 1:00 pm

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

You won't believe this story about my friend, Jeremy Corbyn and the owl

26 September 2015 8:00 am

A friend of mine once watched Jeremy Corbyn try to rape an owl. This was the early to mid-1980s. The…

I knew it! All these toffs have depraved tastes

24 September 2015 1:00 pm

Listen http://rss.acast.com/viewfrom22/thegreatbritishkowtow/media.mp3 A friend of mine once watched Jeremy Corbyn try to rape an owl. This was the early to…

How could the BBC allow Last Night of the Proms to be hijacked by worthy banalities?

19 September 2015 8:00 am

How should we deal with people who sneeze in public places? Stephen Jackson, aged 49, has found himself in court…

Why emote about migrants during a concert?

17 September 2015 1:00 pm

How should we deal with people who sneeze in public places? Stephen Jackson, aged 49, has found himself in court…

Soon, having sex and having children will be utterly disconnected

12 September 2015 9:00 am

What is tougher for a kid? To be born black in a predominantly white neighbourhood, or to be born to…

Soon, having sex and having children will be utterly disconnected

10 September 2015 1:00 pm

What is tougher for a kid? To be born black in a predominantly white neighbourhood, or to be born to…

Pig-ignorant click activists are in charge now. Jeremy Corbyn’s success proves it

5 September 2015 9:00 am

Daily they drop into my email account — alongside the more obviously useful stuff about how I might elongate my penis…

The green ink brigade is now running the show

3 September 2015 1:00 pm

Daily they drop into my email account — alongside the more obviously useful stuff about how I might elongate my penis…

I’m utterly sickened by this story of a man trying to talk to a woman on a train

29 August 2015 9:00 am

What can we as a society do about the relentless harassment of women by terrifying men? Menacing men, threatening men,…

I’m utterly sickened by this story of a man trying to talk to a woman on a train

27 August 2015 1:00 pm

What can we as a society do about the relentless harassment of women by terrifying men? Menacing men, threatening men,…

Who would have thought that about Ted Heath? Well…

8 August 2015 9:00 am

In another blow for freedom and the protection of the vulnerable, Conservative MP Mark Spencer has suggested that anti-terror legislation…

The BBC’s first director general, Lord Reith (Photo: Getty)

The story of the BBC

8 August 2015 9:00 am

The BBC was created out of the ether in 1922. Its first director general, Lord Reith, inhabited a cupboard some…

Who’d have thought that about Ted? Well…

6 August 2015 1:00 pm

In another blow for freedom and the protection of the vulnerable, Conservative MP Mark Spencer has suggested that anti-terror legislation…

Jeremy Corbyn won’t destroy Labour. But he might yet destroy the country

1 August 2015 9:00 am

Imagine, for a moment, the following scenario. In 2016 Britain votes narrowly to remain within the European Union, despite the…

If Corbyn becomes PM, I’m blaming you lot

30 July 2015 1:00 pm

Imagine, for a moment, the following scenario. In 2016 Britain votes narrowly to remain within the European Union, despite the…