Rod Liddle Rod Liddle

Stop being sanctimonious about the McBride emails. Make your own minds up

Rod Liddle says that the internet is an anarchic expression of democracy, and should be treated as such. The same applies to emails sent between friends. Read them and use your common sense

issue 18 April 2009

There’s a UK-based internet site called Urban Dictionary and I’m lucky enough to warrant an entry on it. The text reads as follows: ‘Rod Liddle — an odious, untalented, bigoted, low-level Sunday Times journalist who engages in buggery with Nazis such as Nick Griffin.’ Or at least that’s some of it. Incredible, don’t you think? — all lies. Or mostly lies — God knows how they found out about the Nick Griffin stuff. Maybe Nick told them, hoping it would boost the profile of the BNP somehow. There’s some more stuff about how I don’t like the football team Crystal Palace, which makes me think it was written by a desolate, acne-ridden, suburban cybernerd who is himself a supporter of Surrey’s only league side. As a description of my good self it is at least partially correct — I do work for the Sunday Times and I am odious and bigoted and untalented — which puts the Urban Dictionary slightly ahead of Wikipedia for accuracy.

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