The BBC should be less opinionated
Rod Liddle says that the Corporation has no right to adopt a position on an issue such as David Maclean’s private member’s bill, and should stick to reporting the facts
Sweeney’s rant at the Scientologists
The subtle etiquette of BBC interviews
Kate was too posh for William
Rod Liddle says that young princes in their twenties will always prefer a peroxide blonde with a non-U name to a fragrant, well-spoken English rose
The C of E must make up its mind
The Anglicans cannot avoid having to make irksome rules
The false dawn that awaits Zimbabwe
History suggests that Mugabe’s fall will not end the horrors
QPR have walloped the Chinese
The implications of the supposedly scary superpower’s defeat
Blame it on Rory Bremner
Saluting Peter Hain, one of the impressionist’s victims
We deserve Gillian McKeith
She personifies our misplaced trust in health ‘experts’
Not all faith schools are the same
The lessons taught by the Muslim King Fahad Academy
Get rich with unethical investment
Rod Liddle says that it is not only entertaining to put your money into companies that behave naughtily. It is also economically lucrative: so buy more stocks today
Blair hasn’t got the hang of democracy
Rod Liddle says that the Prime Minister’s Christmas jaunt to the Middle East epitomised his confusion about what happens when people who hate you get the chance to say so in elections
The English Bible has made us
Christmas reminds us how deeply Christian our society is and yet how quirkily tolerant of other faiths, of difference and contradiction. This, says Rod Liddle, is the historic achievement of William Tyndale, the man who gave us the English Bible
A man who believes in Darwin as fervently as he hates God
An unlikely bestseller championing atheism will fill many stockings this Christmas. Rod Liddle meets its author, Richard Dawkins, and asks if his opposition to religion is as devout and credulous as the faith he attacks so passionately
The BA row is about fair play
Rod Liddle says that the woman prevented from wearing her cross is demanding a level playing field, not the right to practise her religion. In this, she speaks for many people
A trail of blood and bigotry
This is an even better book than the author’s erudite, dense and sprawling triumph of last year, Earthly Powers. With…
Slaughter in Pennsylvania
Rod Liddle says that a society brutalised by violent imagery and the death penalty has learned to expect such horrors as the bloodbath in the schoolhouse
A miserable waste of space
Rod Liddle scorns the taboo on all criticism of buses and asks if they really are as wonderful, socially useful and environmentally friendly as the politically correct insist
Who is right about home schooling?
Rod Liddle says that we should leave teaching to the professionals, however much they annoy us, and stop pretending that children benefit from learning obscure languages or how to paint like Cézanne at home
You shouldn’t be arrested for …
Rod Liddle finds Stephen Green’s position on homosexuality laughably offensive — but is much more outraged that police officers from a ‘Minority Support Unit’ should arrest him
He dared speak the truth about the BBC
The Spectator’s radio critic Michael Vestey, who died last week
Are biscuits a terrorist threat?
Why can’t you take biscuits on board at JFK, when computer games are fine at La Guardia? Rod Liddle, in the US, is mystified
Our overpopulation is a catastrophe
There are queues everywhere in Britain, says Rod Liddle. The country has long since reached saturation point and it’s time for the government to admit that we have a problem
Sorry: there is no special relationship
America pays no attention to what we think about anything
It’s so hot that I’m even cross with the evacuees
Rod Liddle finds his intolerance rising with the temperature and asks why the Britons evacuated from Beirut were so ungrateful to those helping them
What really insults the Scots
England does not reciprocate the Scottish nation’s loathing
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