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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.

South Shields Byelection

Back off, Mencap – let idiot councillors express their idiot opinions if they want to

18 May 2013

Having given the matter careful consideration, I have decided that I do not agree with councillor Colin Brewer’s suggestion that disabled children should be ‘put down’ after birth, perhaps in… Read more

Danny Boyle's drummers at the opening ceremony of the 2012 Olympics Photo: Getty

Drummers are living life to the full. That’s why I hate them so much

11 May 2013

My copy of the Times on Tuesday this week kindly provided me with a list of things to do in order that I might ‘live life to the full’. I… Read more

Iran has the seventh largest navy in the world , larger than Russia’s. Photo: ALI MOHAMMADI/AFP/Getty Images

Peter Oborne should stop apologising for Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

4 May 2013

There was an extraordinary meeting of the Juche Ideas Study Group (England) in London last week, held to commemorate the 81st anniversary of the foundation of the Korean People’s Army.… Read more

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Zero tolerance for people who watch fairy-folk sex cartoons

27 April 2013

A man in New Zealand has just been sent to prison for three months for watching cartoons of pixies, elves and trolls enjoying sexual intercourse. I don’t know, from the… Read more

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In defence of Millwall fans

20 April 2013

It kicked off a bit at Wembley last Saturday evening, during the semi-final of the FA Cup between Millwall, of south-east London, and Wigan, of somewhere in the north-west of… Read more

Margaret Thatcher: faultless on the Falklands but a disaster at home

13 April 2013

I’m afraid we have to use Nelson Mandela as an example once again. He is proving very useful in his dotage, old Nels, as a comparison for stuff. A sort… Read more

Paolo Di Canio Unveiled As New Sunderland Manager Photo: Getty

If Paolo Di Canio is a fascist, he should recognise the totalitarianism of his hysterical critics

6 April 2013

I’ve often thought that British football needed a good dose of fascism — and now at last it has exactly this, in the form of the combative and somewhat eccentric Italian… Read more

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Yes, Boris Johnson has fibbed and philandered. But what has he actually done wrong?

30 March 2013

I’m trying to imagine the BBC’s Eddie Mair interviewing Nelson Mandela, the elderly African squirming uncomfortably in his seat as Mair, like one of the late Eugene Terre’Blanche’s famous Dobermans,… Read more

So the Cypriots cop it for having fallen for the honeyed promises of the EU

23 March 2013

I had forgotten about Cyprus. I suppose it was lodged somewhere near the back of my mind as a cheap British Mediterranean satrapy usefully divided into two: a southern bit,… Read more

If Iran can sue Hollywood over Argo, should we all sue Jeremy Hardy?

16 March 2013

I think we should all support the Iranian government in its legal action against the Hollywood actor and director Ben Affleck, for misrepresenting their lovely country in the film Argo.… Read more

People belonging to the Roma community

Isn’t Germany’s attitude towards Romania a little at odds with the EU project?

9 March 2013

‘Can you imagine anything worse,’ a Hungarian once said to me, ‘than a Slav who thinks he’s Latin?’ He was referring to the Romanians, of course. There is a certain… Read more

"Rennard’s overtures might have been considered less obnoxious if he more closely resembled, say, Orlando Bloom or Joaquin Phoenix than Jabba The Hutt"

Lord Rennard doesn’t need an inquiry. He needs a swift kick to the shin

2 March 2013

I was seated at a rather stiff and formal BBC dinner a dozen or so years back, one of those ghastly occasions upon which the boss class attempt, painfully, to… Read more

Simon Hughes and Peter Tatchell at the 1983 Bermondsey by-election. Photo: PA.

Forget Eastleigh, Tatchell vs. Hughes was a real by-election

23 February 2013

I got a text message the other day, inviting me to a party. This is a nice thing to happen, and not an everyday event. I have become used to… Read more

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The poor have been sold horse dressed as beef – and they should be compensated

16 February 2013

Well at least — so far — no middle-class food has been found to contain large chunks of horsey. It’s all been in the junk they feed the chavs. It’s… Read more

Carina Trimingham bears a resemblance to late comedian Jack Douglas

What makes me feel sorry for Chris Huhne

9 February 2013

If Chris Huhne hadn’t copped off with that woman who looks remarkably like the late comedian Jack Douglas, I suppose we would have been deprived of all the tumultuous glee… Read more

Newbury Races

The law doesn’t change just because you’re on horseback

2 February 2013

I’ve just sent off a cheque to the RSPCA in the hope that they will put it towards the costs of bringing another prosecution against those arrogant pink-jacketed psychopaths who… Read more

Why is Mary Beard asked on by TV producers? Because they think she looks like a loony. She has to realise this.

It’s not misogyny, Professor Beard. It’s you

26 January 2013

Oh, this age! How tasteless and ill-bred it is.’ — Gaius Valerius Catullus ‘I do not know whom Mary Beard is but wyth a name lyke that she surely has… Read more

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How Moore, Burchill and Featherstone all had a lovely bitch fight

19 January 2013

  ‘Women … are angry with ourselves for not being happier, not being loved properly and not having the ideal body shape — that of a Brazilian transsexual.’ — Suzanne… Read more

Lost Portrait Of Mary Seacole Unveiled At National Portrait Gallery

How did Mary Seacole come to be revered as a black icon?

12 January 2013

Isn’t it time, just out of perversity, that we all signed the petition on the Operation Black Vote website to restore the part-time nurse Mary Seacole to the national curriculum?… Read more

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If the mice have to face my wife, they’ll have only themselves to blame

5 January 2013

I was in bed by one o clock on New Year’s Day. We did the countdown thing, for the kids, and then hung around for a while looking tired; it… Read more

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