Rod Liddle

I was as appalled as I dare say many of you to discover that Reform's candidate in the forthcoming Makerfield by-election has a social media history of being opposed to the concept of abortion on demand.

Nationalisation would be the moral and practical answer, but the political cost will always be too high

I WONDER what else they will discover in Nicola Sturgeon’s back yard, or parked up on her mother-in-law’s driveway? Nothing would surprise me. A Harrier Jump Jet? “I never saw an aeroplane of any d…

I had a notion the other day that there was possibly more I could offer to this fleeting world. A feeling that with life having been comparatively kind to me, perhaps there is something I could put back. I have these thoughts about once every month...

I had a notion the other day that there was possibly more I could offer to this fleeting world.

I had a notion the other day that there was possibly more I could offer to this fleeting world. A feeling that with life having been comparatively kind to me, perhaps there is something I could put back. I have these thoughts about once every month...

Why the innocent peanut is being hunted to extinction by the allergy police

Rod Liddle, associate editor of The Spectator, has died aged 66. This is the first column he wrote for the magazine on 9 March 2002. It’s always a life-affirming moment – for me, at least. The aeroplane has groaned and wheezed its way up, up, above...

The following column was written in 2024 for former Spectator editor Fraser Nelson when he left the magazine. This is the first time it has been published. My favourite ever email came from a friend and fellow hack, Roland White. It said: ‘You...

The following column was written in 2024 for former Spectator editor Fraser Nelson when he left the magazine. This is the first time it has been published.