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Rod Liddle writes the Liddle Britain column. Liddle was the editor of the Today Programme from 1998 to 2002. As well as his column for The Spectator, Liddle writes regularly for The Sunday Times and Country Life as well as presenting TV documentaries.

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Why give money to charity when they shaft what they purport to defend?

8th February 2010 Rod Liddle

I’m not an enormous fan of “giving money to charity”; I prefer to spend my spare cash on holidays, consumer durables and alcohol. But somehow, for the last five years,…

Is it really racist to want an English-speaking cab driver?

3rd February 2010 Rod Liddle

‘Rraaaaaaaacissst!’ — that Pavlovian whine of complaint, almost always from a white person, an idle and meaningless howl of outrage where once, when uttered by a black or Asian person…

Cameron grasps at populism out of desperation

1st February 2010 Rod Liddle

David Cameron has said that “burglars leave their human rights at the doorstep” when they break into a house. He added that he wishes to see “fewer” prosecutions of homeowners…

We should not absolve Islam of the crimes committed in its name

27th January 2010 Rod Liddle

A young girl in Bangladesh has been sentenced to 101 lashes for having become pregnant as a consequence of being raped. Her father will also have to pay a fine…

Daud Abdullah is a baddun, but the MCB is moving in the right direction

25th January 2010 Rod Liddle

An interesting piece by the editor of the Jewish Chronicle, Stephen Pollard, in the magazine this week on the government apparently backtracking on the issue of the Muslim Council of…

Two child-related incidents

22nd January 2010 Rod Liddle

There are two big chunks of child-related outrage in our newspapers today (and tomorrow, I’d guess). The first is the story of a woman with learning difficulties who fled…

Rod Liddle: Enemy Of The People

20th January 2010 Rod Liddle

There’s a few Early Day Motions in the House of Commons, one of which demands that I should not be made editor of the Independent newspaper, based upon a Guardian…

Would a terrorist really post a warning on Twitter?

20th January 2010 Rod Liddle

This following is definitely in bad taste, isn’t it? I don’t always have a working moral compass when it comes to black humour, but I think this is just the…

Don’t Vote UKIP

17th January 2010 Rod Liddle

I see that UKIP thinks it a good idea to ban Muslim women from wearing the veil in the public. The burka and “other face covering veils” should be outlawed,…