Rod Liddle

WELL at least Justin Welby can be thankful he wasn’t Archbishop of Canterbury a few hundred years ago. We English have not always been kind to Archbishops once they have got on our nerves. There wa…

You would think that we Europeans might have learned a thing or two about anti-Semitism over the past century or so – and perhaps come to understand pragmatically, if nothing else, that what begins with the vicious persecution of Jews usually moves on to murdering lots of other people, too. But no. Or if we

I switched the radio on in my car today and it went straight to the BBC World at One on Radio Four. I had expected Radio Three.

(iStock) I switched the radio on in my car today and it went straight to the BBC World at One on Radio Four.

I had naively believed police forces had stopped collating ‘non-crime hate incidents’

THE farmers are revolting. Take that whichever way you wish. But it’s enough to say they are very unhappy. The Government intends to make larger firms subject to inheritance tax. The farmers reckon…

I was thrilled to learn that our government intends to enjoy an ‘open’ relationship with China – one of my favourite countries, as I am sure it is yours. Sir Keir Starmer announced this intention when he bumped into Xi Jinping at the G20 beano in Rio de Janeiro. He also said: ‘We want our

I was thrilled to learn that our government intends to enjoy an ‘open' relationship with China – one of my favourite countries, as I am sure it is yours.

There was a time we all looked forward to on the BBC Today programme, back in the early years of Tony Blair’s first term as Prime Minister. Late July, early August. Blair had scooted off to San Gimignano, Mandelson was probably on a yacht with an oligarch, even Campbell was away battling his weird inner demons somewhere.

MC5 came outta Detroit in the mid 1960s and their shrieking blues metal ur-punk was afforded unnecessary respect