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Rod Liddle

Rod Liddle is associate editor of The Spectator. He writes a weekly column in the magazine, as well as contributing to The Sunday Times and The Sun.

Shouting abuse at fat people is not just fun. It’s socially useful

Rod Liddle 9 July 2008 12:00 am

Rod Liddle is impressed by David Cameron’s speech in Glasgow and the Tory leader’s call for greater personal responsibility. Antisocial behaviour needs to be stigmatised, not treated as an illness to be cured

How to get stabbed: you, too, can be knifed in a public place

Rod Liddle 2 July 2008 12:00 am

Rod Liddle says that it helps to be aged between 14 and 30, white and male. Being drunk and argumentative speeds things along. And no public policy seems to dissuade those who do the stabbing

Cummins may be part of the green ink brigade, but he was right about Islam

Rod Liddle 25 June 2008 12:00 am

Rod Liddle looks back at the case of the British Council employee who dared to speak the truth about Islamic ideology — and notes that what was heretical in 2004 is now almost orthodox

‘I hope the entire tribunal becomes infested with lice’

Rod Liddle 18 June 2008 12:00 am

Rod Liddle on the case of Bushra Noah, the headscarf-wearing Muslim who has just won £4,000 from the Wedge hair salon

Grow up, girls — those stranded dolphins don’t deserve your tears

Rod Liddle 11 June 2008 12:00 am

Rod Liddle says that our unthinking, sentimental reaction to the plight of the dolphins is symptomatic of our dangerous confusion about animals in general

An official no-go area for Christians? Excuse me: I need a drink

Rod Liddle 4 June 2008 12:00 am

Rod Liddle is outraged by the community support officer in Birmingham who threatened two Christian evangelical ministers with arrest for handing out Gospel literature in a Muslim neighbourhood

I have worked out how we can win the Eurovision Song Contest next year

Rod Liddle 28 May 2008 12:00 am

Liddle Britain

A century from now, we will be appalled that we allowed abortions at all

Rod Liddle 21 May 2008 12:00 am

Rod Liddle says the Commons vote securing the 24-week limit is no more than a craven politician’s fudge, designed to postpone the day when the law of the land finally catches up with the indisputable findings of science

C’mon Cherie: even Goering stuck up a bit for Hitler

Rod Liddle 14 May 2008 12:00 am

Rod Liddle says it is no surprise that Gordon Brown has ended up as surly and suspicious as he has: the memoirs of John Prescott, Lord Levy and Cherie Blair are appalling acts of treachery and avarice

Don’t expect the cyclone in Burma to have benign political side-effects

Rod Liddle 7 May 2008 12:00 am

Rod Liddle says that there is a natural hope that the interventions of the UN and charities in the disaster-stricken country will open it up. But history does not support such optimism

This Austrian horror gnaws at our fears about how we treat our own children

Rod Liddle 30 April 2008 12:00 am

Josef Fritzl’s unspeakable crimes against his daughter not only sicken us, says Rod Liddle. They sharpen our confusion about day-to-day parenting in the modern world

The truth is that the house price crash is, overall, good news

Rod Liddle 23 April 2008 12:00 am

Rod Liddle says that our pursuit of property as investment has been the most repulsive and soul-destroying aspect of contemporary British culture

Here in Transylvania, it feels okay to be proudly English

Rod Liddle 16 April 2008 12:00 am

As nationalities proliferate, the English want their turn, says Rod Liddle — who considers himself British first. St George’s Day and ‘Englishness’ have been partially decontaminated, but we are no closer to a definition of what ‘England’ is — and quite right too

Politicians boasting about the women they’ve slept with is not candour: it’s spin

Rod Liddle 2 April 2008 12:00 am

Rod Liddle says that Nick Clegg’s toe-curling remarks are part of a deceitful tendency in the political class to tell us things about themselves that we don’t want to know rather than speaking the truth about policy

I know why the government wants to send homosexuals back to Iran to be hanged

Rod Liddle 26 March 2008 12:00 am

Gays are law-abiding, better-educated than the norm, economically productive and tend to be less of a drain on the state, says Rod Liddle. They don’t stand a chance in this country

Pity the monks of Tibet who dare to hope that anyone will come to their aid

Rod Liddle 18 March 2008 12:00 am

Rod Liddle is appalled by the appeasement of China, a country that now combines the most oppressive aspects of state Marxism with the most brutally rapacious aspects of capitalism.

The BBC White Season only shows how little Auntie has really changed

Rod Liddle 12 March 2008 12:00 am

Rod Liddle says these tokenistic programmes demonstrate that the BBC’s view of the vast majority of people in this country remains appallingly patronising. The Corporation has not renounced its bad old metropolitan ways at all

Water, Prozac, management consultants: all completely useless

Rod Liddle 5 March 2008 12:00 am

So many of the things we are told to do are a total waste of time or money, says Rod Liddle, who has just completed a failed two-year course in water-drinking to make him a better person

Boris’s most brilliant wheeze to date was the letter to the Guardian attacking him

Rod Liddle 27 February 2008 12:00 am

Rod Liddle salutes the genius of the Tory mayoral candidate in sending a spoof petition condemning himself and praising Livingstone to the skies to the Left’s in-house newspaper

The biggest tent of the lot: to stop Blair becoming EU President

Rod Liddle 20 February 2008 12:00 am

Rod Liddle says that the former Prime Minister has pulled off an astonishing feat: uniting Left and Right, Europhiles and Eurosceptics, people of all nations and creeds, online and
in print, in their glorious campaign to prevent him becoming President of Europe

The Archbishop is little more than a posh John Prescott in a black dress

Rod Liddle 13 February 2008 12:00 am

Rod Liddle is infuriated by a church leader who refuses to confront the inhumanity perpetrated in the name of Islam or the consequences — visible in Malaysia — of legal apartheid

If we don’t bug a conversation between Khan and Ahmed, who do we bug?

Rod Liddle 6 February 2008 12:00 am

Rod Liddle says that discussions between a radical Muslim MP and a man suspected of facilitating terrorism overseas are fair game. Extradition is a much bigger worry

I am angrier with the government about the smoking ban than the Iraq war

Rod Liddle 30 January 2008 12:00 am

Rod Liddle says that the ban exemplifies all that is wrong with Labour: nannying piety, control freakery and an endless capacity for lies. What’s more, it’s put him to considerable inconvenience

In one sentence, Jacqui Smith became the Gerald Ratner of the Home Office

Rod Liddle 23 January 2008 12:00 am

Rod Liddle says that the Home Secretary’s admission that she would not feel safe walking the streets after dark reflects not candour but arrogance and aloofness

In the unlikely event that anyone wants my organs, it should be up to me

Rod Liddle 16 January 2008 12:00 am

Rod Liddle says that the notion of ‘compulsory donations’ is oxymoronic and the pinnacle of the medical profession’s zeal to get its hands on our corpses

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