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.

What King Charles gets wrong

6 May 2023 9:00 am

Marooned in London for a day between meetings, I walked for miles in an attempt to find something good to…

Metallica: 72 Seasons

6 May 2023 9:00 am

I’ve missed you, Diane Abbott

29 April 2023 9:00 am

I thought I had forgotten about Diane Abbott, but in fact there has been a Diane-sized hole in my life…

I shed a tear for the SNP

22 April 2023 9:00 am

For people who take politics seriously and very earnestly, such as myself, the present debacle within the Scottish National party…

The police are a law unto themselves

15 April 2023 9:00 am

The journos weren’t very impressed with Nicola Sturgeon’s house. Never mind the plod staring like morons at her barbecue or…

Sanna Marin and the female leadership myth

8 April 2023 9:00 am

It is with great sadness that I must report the departure of the world’s only female head of state who…

The rule of lawyers

1 April 2023 9:00 am

Have you had your fourth Covid booster jab yet? They are being very quiet about it these days. I used…

Childcare: an inconvenient truth

25 March 2023 9:00 am

Wyndham Lewis once said that ‘the ideas of a time are like the clothes of a season’ – but that,…

Why shouldn’t BBC staff express opinions?

18 March 2023 9:00 am

There was a kind of peak BBC Radio 4 moment last week when the network put on a play called…

What I make of Sue Gray

11 March 2023 9:00 am

I am at a bit of a loss to understand the hoo-ha about the civil servant Sue Gray. She has…

Unmasking the truth about Covid

4 March 2023 9:00 am

You want some tomatoes? Come up here, we’re inundated. We’ve got a tomato mountain. That’s because nobody in the north…

Cancel the Vikings

18 February 2023 9:00 am

A little late in the day, perhaps, it has been pointed out to the intellectual colossi of South Tyneside Council…

A sense of entitlement

11 February 2023 9:00 am

How are you coping during this cost- of-living crisis? Have you made your way to the food bank yet? I…

‘Truth’ is not subjective

4 February 2023 9:00 am

Once upon a time, a fox with a large bushy tail and a disingenuous smile changed his name from Reynard…

Sam Smith: Gloria

4 February 2023 9:00 am

The Tories’ poisonous culture wars

28 January 2023 9:00 am

Aretha Franklin’s 1967 hit ‘(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman’ should be removed from the music streaming network…

Everything in Britain is broken

14 January 2023 9:00 am

It is rare to find an example of public art which one can applaud, unequivocally, but I think I have…

Help me, I’m Scottish

7 January 2023 9:00 am

I did not enjoy the Christmas festivities this year: I sang no carols, ate no turkey and failed to watch…

A world of our own making

17 December 2022 9:00 am

Two very brief excerpts from Radio 4 last week. First, my wife turned on her radio in time to hear…

The march of the local council dictators

10 December 2022 9:00 am

I was impressed with the passion Sir Keir Starmer managed to whip up within himself when presenting Gordon Brown’s interminable…

In defence of fairy tales

3 December 2022 9:00 am

One by one, life’s harmless little pleasures are outlawed by an overweening, repressive government. The Online Safety Bill has been…