If BBC staff could be open about their views, we would all be better off
Rod Liddle, who lost his job on Today when he wrote a newspaper article, says that the BBC would be strengthened if the Right would allow presenters to speak their minds
A big thank you to Guy Goma: the wrong man in the right place
Rod Liddle salutes the Congolese man interviewed by mistake on the BBC, who revealed an uncomfortable truth about the way the media works
Who needs UFOs when you can play Sudoku?
The demise of a great conspiracy theory
More than Madonna’s mother-in-law
Rod Liddle meets Shireen Ritchie, the force behind the Tory drive for more women MPs, and wonders if her awesome politeness will do the trick
Let’s hear it for the family from hell
Rod Liddle meets the mother and father of Leighanne Black, the notoriously abusive 14-year-old drink-driver, and finds that they are kind and loyal parents
Why I hate British films
Rod Liddle says he refuses to be patriotic about our posturing, second-rate film industry
Sven’s seven deadly sins
Rod Liddle on the truth about why the England football manager had to go
Celebrity squares
It is a long, long, time since the Conservative party had the support of a clever, truculent lesbian
Let Irving speak
Rod Liddle says it is typical of the anti-Semitic Austrians that they should bang up David Irving for saying what they themselves believe
Sometimes women share the blame
Rape is wrong, says Rod Liddle, but it is right to believe — as 30 per cent of British people do — that some victims are partly responsible
The crescent of fear
Rod Liddle goes to Grigny, a suburb south of Paris, and witnesses at first hand the consequences of Muslim reluctance to integrate with French society
If Katrina was the vengeance of Allah, what
If Katrina was the vengeance of Allah, what was the point of the Pakistan earthquake?
Let the people of England speak
The BNP may be odious but, says Rod Liddle, there is something fishy about the arrest of its leader
Mandy: wanted for questioning
Rod Liddle reveals that the South African police want to talk to Peter Mandelson about the attempted coup in Equatorial Guinea
Let’s go nuclear
Rod Liddle says the answer to our energy needs is obvious: cheap and reliable nuclear power. But before we can embrace a sane future we have to overcome the Cold War superstitions of the Green Left
Diary
The Spectator awaits its delivery of manure, though one man is up to his neck already
English hooligans are pussycats
Our soccer fans are by no means the most thuggish in the world, says Rod Liddle, and he’ll glass any smug Scotch git who says they are
One law for the Americans
Rod Liddle on the scandal of the new extradition arrangements that allow the US to snatch British citizens, but leave IRA men safe in America
How Islam has killed multiculturalism
Rod Liddle says that Blair’s great U-turn on immigration has placed the Labour party to the right of Ray Honeyford — the man once vilified as a racist
More destructive than the Luftwaffe
John Prescott is going to destroy large areas of England with new homes, even though more than 700,000 properties — enough to meet housing needs for the next four years — lie vacant. Rod Liddle urges conservatives to resist the terror
Fear of paedophilia makes you fat
Rod Liddle says that the government’s White Paper on public health won’t help the fatties, but if we could overcome our fear of ‘kiddie-fiddlers’, children might be able to reduce their weight on the playing field
The great whitewash
Rod Liddle says that Lord Hutton gave the government the benefit of the doubt, sometimes to the point of appearing either hopelessly naive or a visitor from a kinder, gentler planet
I was 12, she was 13
Rod Liddle on government plans to outlaw the harmless fumblings of teenagers
The hand of history is pointing to the door
The government brought the Hutton inquiry into being by its own shoddy actions. The lying and dissembling of No. 10 has so eroded public trust that, says Rod Liddle, the man responsible – Tony Blair – must go
A despicable and cowardly diversion
Rod Liddle defends Andrew Gilligan and says the government's confected outrage has led to tragedy
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