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
Killing a gay man is no worse than killing a disc jockey
Does the legal concept of ‘hate crime’ reflect a consensus?
All laws to be written in plain English?
Harriet Harman’s campaign against ‘lawyer-speak’
Profusion of choice makes us unhappy
David Cameron cannot turn Britain into a contented Bhutan
The real disgrace is a fit of bogus morality about Prescott
Rod Liddle say that — whatever his political failures — the Deputy Prime Minister is the victim of a deplorably hypocritical press assault
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?
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