Rod Liddle

World’s oldest football competition has been downgraded by greed, chicanery and outright deceit of FA and Premier League – but no amount of anger will change anything

PRAISE the Lord! Rishi Sunak seems to have woken up at last. He has suddenly realised that the world’s looking a little bit dangerous right now. And so he’s vowed to increase defence spending. He s…

The Liberal Democrat candidate in the Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland constituency recently released a video clip of herself sitting in a car and saying just the following: ‘As a Liberal Democrat, I believe that women can have a penis.’ When I’m feeling depressed or under the weather, I play this clip to myself over

The Liberal Democrat candidate in the Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland constituency recently released a video clip of herself sitting in a

One of the great remaining working-class sports deserves its place in a great industrial city, but hard cash is threatening to take World Championship abroad

I DON'T know if it's perhaps escaped your attention, but Taylor Swift has a new double album out right now.

I DON’T know if it’s perhaps escaped your attention, but Taylor Swift has a new double album out right now. It certainly won’t have escaped your attention if you have been watching or listening to …

Iwas trying to work out which event gave me a greater sense of euphoria and contentment – the fall of Humza Yousaf or the birth of my daughter – when suddenly the Irish got themselves into a most terrible paddy and easily eclipsed both for sheer, untrammelled glee. This is turning into a very good

Grade: A- The irresistibly catchy – if you are not quite right in the head – ‘Touch The Leather’ was probably my favourite single of the previous decade, aided by a video which was simultaneously marvellously seedy, threatening and infantile. ‘Left-wing skin on the right-wing leather – touch the leather leather…’ Well it did it

It is preferable to believe that we were not merely wicked — which our involvement in slavery undoubtedly was — but uniquely wicked