Rod Liddle
Now we are offering asylum to mass murderers
How familiar are you with the Mungiki? Probably not very familiar at all. But this is the thing about living in a country which embraces the richness and vibrancy of… Read more
Back off, Mencap – let idiot councillors express their idiot opinions if they want to
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
Drummers are living life to the full. That’s why I hate them so much
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
Peter Oborne should stop apologising for Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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
Zero tolerance for people who watch fairy-folk sex cartoons
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
In defence of Millwall fans
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
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
If Paolo Di Canio is a fascist, he should recognise the totalitarianism of his hysterical critics
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
Yes, Boris Johnson has fibbed and philandered. But what has he actually done wrong?
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
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?
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
Isn’t Germany’s attitude towards Romania a little at odds with the EU project?
‘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
Lord Rennard doesn’t need an inquiry. He needs a swift kick to the shin
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
Forget Eastleigh, Tatchell vs. Hughes was a real by-election
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
The poor have been sold horse dressed as beef – and they should be compensated
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
What makes me feel sorry for Chris Huhne
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
The law doesn’t change just because you’re on horseback
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
It’s not misogyny, Professor Beard. It’s you
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
How Moore, Burchill and Featherstone all had a lovely bitch fight
‘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
How did Mary Seacole come to be revered as a black icon?
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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