Rod Liddle



Profile:
Full name: Roderick E. L. Liddle

Area of interest: Politics, media, culture, current affairs, sport

Journals/Organisation: The Sunday Times | The Sun | The Spectator

Email: [mailto:rod.liddle@sunday-times.co.uk rod.liddle@sunday-times.co.uk]

Personal website:

Website: http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/comment/columns/rodliddle

Blog: http://www.spectator.co.uk/rodliddle

Representation: The Speakers Agency | Jillie Bushell Associates | Noel Gay

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Biography:
About:

Education: Laurence Jackson comprehensive school, Guisborough; London School of Economics

Career: Worked for the Labour Party as research assistant and speechwriter, 1983/87; Reporter with Western Mail, The South Wales Echo; Editor at BBC Radio 4's Today programme, 1997-2002; Columnist with The Guardian, 2002/03

Current position/role: writes for The Sunday Times, The Spectator (associate editor) and Country Life


 * also writes/written for: writes an 'agony uncle' column for GQ magazine

Other roles/Main role:

Other activities: Presenter of current affairs programmes on TV

Disclosures:

Viewpoints/Insight: Lynn Barber: Liddle at large 5th October, 2003

Broadcast media: Editor at BBC Radio 4's Today programme, 1997-2002. Presenter (with Kate Silverton) of BBC2's Weekend - political discussion programme with live audience and panel debate, 2003. Appearances on BBC's Question Time, Have I Got News For You, and Channel Five's The Wright Stuff, 2003/4; team captain for two series of BBC's Call My Bluff, 2003/4. Presenter, Lion Television/Channel 4's Some Of My Best Friends Are... Presented and authored Channel 4's Immigration is a Timebomb, 2004; Sky TV's Infidelity, 2005; Channel 4's Evangelism, 2005; Channel 4's The New Fundamentalists, 2006; Channel 4's Battle for the Holy Land, Love Thy Neighbour, 2007. See IMDb

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Controversy/Criticism:
 * BBC considered an article Marching back to Labour in his Guardian column, Sept 2002 - criticising Countryside Alliance marchers - to be partisan, and he was given an ultimatum to either give up the column or resign, he resigned.
 * Recent documentary, Battle for the Holy Land: Love Thy Neighbour, was criticised by Melanie Philips for misunderstanding Jewish history
 * 'I've never had a go at Muslims, only Islam', interview with Ian Burrell, The Independent, 5th January 2009

Awards/Honours: BBC Radio 4's Today programme, during Rod Liddle's editorship: Sony Silver, 2002 - reporting by Barnie Choudhury and Mike Thomson into the reasons for race riots in the north of England; Sony Bronze, 2003 - reports by Angus Stickler into paedophile priests; Amnesty International Media Award, 2003 - reports by Andrew Gilligan's into the sale of illegal landmines

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Books & Debate:

 * Love will destroy everything (2004) OCLC56651336
 * Too beautiful for you: tales of improper behaviour (2005) OCLC54487449

Latest work: Selfish, Whining Monkeys review – why is he so angry? Will Self marvels as the controversial columnist condemns himself over 200 pages. May 2014

Speaking/Appearances: http://www.intelligencesquared.com/people/l/rod-liddle



The Sunday Times:
Column name:

Remit/Info: Politics, media, culture, current affairs

Section: Features

Role: Commentator

Pen-name:

Email: [mailto:rod.liddle@sunday-times.co.uk rod.liddle@sunday-times.co.uk]

Website: http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/comment/columns/rodliddle

Commissioning editor:

Day published: Sunday

Regularity: Weekly

Column format: Divided into five topics

Average length: 1150 words (lead topic 450)



Articles: 2017

 * Old money or new, the filthy rich should be taxed until they’re clean - I met a hereditary peer last week. Seemed a nice enough chap, although I’m not absolutely sure he knew where he was, who he was or what he was supposed to be doing - 2nd July
 * Railing against difference and reasoned debate, the left risks becoming a monster - 25th June
 * Torn between God and the dark angels of Islington, jelly Farron just wobbled - Sources close to God say that the Almighty was “incandescent” and “spitting feathers” when told of Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron’s resignation statement last week - 18th June
 * I read the runes and told of Corbyn working magic - The prime minister made her magnificently stupid decision to call a general election while on a walking holiday with her husband in north Wales, apparently. - 11th June
 * Greetings from Corbynia, home of yak cheese and grinding poverty. Wish we weren’t here - A very hot day in Islington, the pavements sweating and the bistros doing an excellent trade in iced vegan coeliac-friendly lattes - 28th May
 * Flash your silver spoon and justice will be blind to your bloody bread knife - I occasionally get possessed by sentimental, radical chic, leftism. The vestigial tail of youth still wagging, I would guess. - 21st May
 * Vote Labour for a cabinet that’s like leek and potato soup — thick and sloppy - Who is your current favourite Labour halfwit? Mine is Angela Rayner, who, fittingly enough for the shadow education secretary, seems to have the brain power of a bowl of Morrisons own-brand leek and potato soup - 14th May
 * Philip may be past his sell‑by date, but it’s wobbly‑upper‑lip Britain that’s gone orf - Every so often, that slightly tiresome debate does the rounds, about whether we should replace our monarchy with an elected president - 8th May
 * Tune in to Labour’s radio activity and you’ll hear a half‑life about to expire - I thought about voting Labour last Tuesday. Only for a nanosecond, or even more briefly - 23rd April
 * Mess with the hi‑vis airline tyrants and you’ll risk a mile‑high clubbing - Among the most useful developments of the modern world are those signs seen in public places that read something like: “Our staff have the right to go about their employment without being subjected to physical or verbal abuse. We will always prosecute those who assault or insult our employees.” - 16th April
 * In this war between leavers and stayers, all us good guys are in the ‘remain’ camp - 9th April
 * What harridans call victim shaming, normal people call common sense - Mansplaining is a term invented to describe the act of telling a woman who is deeply ignorant about something what she needs to know - 2nd April
 * Raising money for a continent of despots — now that’s funny - So, do you buy a new red nose each year for Comic Relief, or do you root out the one stashed in that kitchen drawer along with some string, spare fuses and a powerful torch and Geiger counter for when it all goes tits up? - 26th March
 * Here’s Osborne’s first page one story: Voters shafted by their MP - What do newspaper editors do all day? Not that much. Sit around looking anxious for a bit, maybe, and occasionally shout at people - 19th March
 * Swing Low, sweet idiots — and stop bleating about oppression - A bunch of American academics have castigated England supporters for having “culturally appropriated” (that is, for singing) what was once a slave song. And thus trivialising the very real hardships experienced by black people - 12th March
 * Betrayal and bungs — it’s how they play the poisonous game - The latest cruelty to be perpetrated against defenceless creatures is taking place at Queen Mary University of London, where bees are being taught to play football - 26th February
 * A foolish man builds his church on fudge. Take note, Justin - Henry VIII is largely to blame, I suppose. If he hadn’t disavowed the Pope and ransacked the monasteries in that first, rather glorious, Brexit, we might still have a church that knew — just about — what it stood for - 19th February
 * In the war on soldiers, Lawyer Loathsome isn’t the real enemy - This week I think we should ponder long and hard on the vicious right-wing tabloid hounding of a clearly noble and decent campaigner - 5th February
 * With Diane parroting both sides, Labour is an ex-opposition - An opinion poll, from the Labour Leave people, put Ukip 10 points ahead in the race to steal Tristram Hunt’s old seat - 29th January
 * Keep on marching, sisters — we’ll stamp out democracy yet - Terribly disappointed not to have seen you on the Wimmins March Against Trump yesterday. Thousands of us who approve of democracy only when the people we like are elected marched for two miles around Westminster - 22nd January
 * You call that a hate crime? Oh, officer, I’ll give you hate crimes - Here’s a mischievous plan. We’ll have to share out the job because it will be terribly time-consuming, but surely worth it in the end - 15th January
 * Pass me a bludgeon: zombie universities are cosseting students - At last, after the usual overlong interregnum for celebrating that archaic festival of western colonialist triumphalism, Christmas, the academic year is back in full swing - 8th January
 * All hail the Unpopulist revolution! It’s the year of living liberally - What a wonderful year was 2016 if, like me, you are a xenophobe who delights in the abject misery of metro-liberals - 2nd January



Articles: 2016

 * Mosley puts a kinky boot into the press to get his bondage fix - 18th December
 * Bravo, Screaming Lord Corbyn. You alienate the 52% — and the 48% - How did they do it? Sometimes you just have to stand back and admire political brilliance when you see it. - 11th December
 * Their ‘post-truth’ comfort blanket is all the liberals have left - It pleases me to think that we have moved beyond the stringent confines of truth and to a sunlit upland, a better place, where truth knows its place - 20th November
 * Nice work saving the planet, lads. Pass me a pipistrelle smoothie - 13th November
 * So these are the Brexit blockers — the loonies, the loaded, the lawyers - 6th November
 * Peace be upon Israel — the Lib Dems have cut off their Tonge - An apology of omission: last week I listed the various shysters, bribers, greedmongers, paedos and other assorted ne’er-do-wells who had jubilantly been elevated to the House of Lords - 30th October
 * Take it from Lord Liddle of Bileduct: dishonour’s the way to an honour - It has long been a mystery to me that I have reached the age of 56 years without having been knighted. As someone who has dedicated his life, selflessly, to being spiteful, causing offence and jeering, I thought I’d be a shoo-in - 23rd October
 * Crazy Ukippers huff and puff and Woolfe is blown down - A few years ago, Ukip introduced psychometric testing to weed out the nutters who wished to stand as candidates. That worked well, didn’t it? - 9th October
 * ‘Vote for us, racist rats.’ How smoothie Labour is sweet-talking Britain - 2nd October
 * I’ll tell you who’s been abused: our troops, by grasping lawyers - Fun fact: did you know that there are now more lawyers in this country than there are grains of sand in the Sahara Desert? - 25th September
 * Jumped-up Juncker is Europe’s best cure for Bregret - Hell, sometimes in this political world of ours things get bad and the tail wags the dog rather than the other way around. With Juncker, it’s a flea on the tail of the dog that is wagging the dog - 18th September
 * It’s not racist of our Chinese visitors to dodge a shanghaiing - The Chinese are furious that we smug Brits have accused them of racism, so I thought I would get my racist retaliation in sharpish - 11th September
 * The Tories could get a nasty surprise from #BrockLivesMatter - There is not the slenderest scientific evidence to suggest that killing badgers will stop the spread of bovine tuberculosis - 4th September
 * Today’s top story is . . . likely to ignore any awkward Brexit boost - The real reason we haven’t heard that the vote for Brexit has utterly destroyed the country, as the presenter clearly believed, is because it palpably hasn’t - 28th August
 * Cheeky chappies loved by millions. Of course Corbyn’s stumped - Who does know who Ant and Dec are? - 21st August
 * So that’s clear then, m’lady – we must use the c-word liberally - It is enormously cheering to see that one of my favourite words in the English language is beginning to lose some of its undeserved stigma - 14th August
 * We’ve become masters of delusion over this murderous Islamism - When is a terrorist not a terrorist but just a psychotic lunatic? The mistake, I think, is in believing these two states to be mutually exclusive - 24th July
 * PC Plod may huff, but big, bad wolf-whistling is not a hate crime - You think everything has changed after Brexit? That the old idiocies have stopped? - 17th July
 * Remainers don’t fear the apocalypse. They’re gagging for it - If we leavers are possessed of a glee, so too are the losers - 9th July
 * Poor, deluded Labour: your policies sent your voters for the door - Ah — you were hoping that the truly berserk stuff from our politicians would stop, now that the referendum is decided, weren’t you? - 26th June
 * There’s a lady who’s sure all rock music is gold. Well, she’s wrong - Rock music is a desperately thin medium. We have venerated it for too long and given it too much leeway, much though I still enjoy some of its vibrant and gleeful idiocies - 19th June
 * Brexit: Why Rod Liddle wants out - “If we stay in the EU, we will be consigning ourselves to a future that resembles the old USSR: no dissent, no alternative point of view permitted” - 13th June
 * People who take Noel Edmonds for a doctor make my orbs ache - Much like you, I suspect, I lie in bed at night worried to hell that we, as a race, are surrounding ourselves with the wrong kind of electromagnetism. It is one of the big issues of our time - 12th June
 * The gorilla is out of its misery, now it’s time to euthanise zoos - I was delighted to see that Stormfront, the web forum of the white nationalist community, via the offices of former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke, has at last commented on the tragic shooting of Harambe the gorilla at Cincinnati Zoo - 5th June
 * They shoot, they miss, they score a million own goals for women - The BBC will continue to pretend that people are interested in women’s football and give these inept participants, watched by nobody - 29th May
 * Nasty bit of echo on your mic, Labour. It’s called the truth - There’s a lot more of this mic-left-on shenanigans these days and very entertaining it is, too - 22nd May
 * Mr Submissive was a poor choice to whip the Beeb into shape - It is a shame that the secretary of state for culture, media and sport, John Whittingdale, is no longer being seen to by that dominatrix he was supposedly having an affair with - 15th May
 * Your world is now 48 miles wide, ladies – just ask your imam - Sitting in a central London cafe last week, I spent an hour or so watching the women walking past. This was not a lascivious enterprise — far from it. I was watching out of concern and worry - 8th May
 * The tyrant has left the velodrome, now wave goodbye to the golds - A rather, uh, abrupt Australian, Shane Sutton, has been forced out as technical director of British Cycling for a host of exquisitely modern transgressions: bullying, racism, sexism, even disablism - 1st May
 * Kid, be whatever you want to be . . . as long as it’s a right-on idiot - One of these days you will be allowed to self-define as a eucalyptus tree, or a bowl of Heinz mushroom soup, and nobody will think the worse of you for it - 24th April
 * Filthy and rich? Of course we’ll keep your naughty secrets - Like you, I suspect, I have been wondering for the past few days who those celebrities are who have taken out an injunction to prevent us all from knowing about their decadent and disgusting sexual activities - 10th April
 * Light four candles to mark the death of Tory comedy - Have you ever heard of anyone buying fork handles? Ever? - 3rd April
 * Stop sexting at the back. Today, class, let’s learn a new word: ‘No’ - Do you remember the story from several years ago, when the celebrity chef Jamie Oliver’s... - 27th March
 * Corbyn’s Labour, where all forms of bigotry are reviled — except one - Attacked any Jews recently? Hurry up or they’ll all be gone - 20th March
 * Universities are a safe haven from censorship; a sanctuary of free speech and tolerance - Just imagine, if you will, their shock. Their outrage. Their incomprehension. Britain’s most famous, achingly right-on, liberal lefties being blackballed from university campuses because they are insufficiently achingly right-on and liberal - 14th March
 * We’ve mislaid the ‘Refugees welcome’ mat at Pious Towers - Like many well-meaning, liberal, middle-class white people desperate to indulge in a bit of pious grandstanding, I decided in September to open my house to a “refugee” family from Syria, or somewhere similarly benighted and full of head-chopping maniacs - 13th March
 * Yeah, sure, chimps are believers — and my dog’s Pup Francis - Skipper, the half-breed dog I had when I was a child, was a practising Roman Catholic - 6th March
 * I’m all for smashing Nicey, but this feels a bit stitch-up-tastic - I have to say that my reaction to the news that the BBC had sacked the disc jockey Tony Blackburn... - 28th February
 * Oblivious texters need a wake-up call. That truck should do - 21st February
 * They even monstered Meryl. Who will the leftie mob flay next? - The good news is that one day soon the liberal left will devour itself in a berserk and ravenous... - 14th February
 * Shut it, Julian. No one cares what the berks at the UN think - 7th February
 * Don’t worry, Dave: the left’s word police are a bananas bunch - 31st January
 * Gather round, voters. Old Ma Beckett has spun a fantastical yarn - Who was to blame for Labour’s catastrophic election defeat last May? - 24th January
 * Dying of shame might just save drunken, loutish Britain - My New Year's resolution — to drink substantially larger quantities of alcohol in 2016 — has already got off to a flying start, I am proud to report - 3rd January



Articles: 2015

 * Corbyn’s new politics are as ‘refreshing’ as Labour’s old spin - Are you enjoying the “new politics”? This is the phrase used to describe Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership of the Labour party and is parroted by those few shadow cabinet ministers who are not howling with despair in a darkened room - 18th October
 * Let immigrants eat British, Mr Bigwig. Our culture isn’t tripe - I know that right now you are bowed down with worry about the state of the world and that you would welcome a certain leavening... - 20th September
 * The lady lawyer doth protest too much. It was a compliment - I made the mistake of signing up to the networking site LinkedIn several years ago - 13th September
 * Slam the door on the migrants’ grans, Dave. It’ll cheer you right up - I have been worrying myself sick these past few days about the prime minister’s mental state - 30th August
 * How I learnt to stop being infantile and love the bomb - I used to have a recurring dream in which both the Soviet Union and the USA were chasing me... - 9th August
 * Pass the joint and the jemmy: the cops have missed a beat - The hunt is on. Will the police succeed in tracking down the despicable Three Golliwogs of Wick and... - 2nd August
 * Do be quiet about the scoundrels, chaps: let’s not embarrass No 10 - I wonder what scandal they’re covering up now? I mean right now, this minute - 26th July
 * No sabotage needed, Tories. Leave Labour to self-destruct - Sometimes I get so wrapped up in stuff that I miss the big picture — I forget important things. So... - 20th July
 * Our secret weapon: the Old Compton Street Irregulars - Splendid news — at long last someone is getting to grips with the real problems afflicting our... - 12th July
 * Top work, Beeb. Your jalopy will go from 60m viewers to 0 in a trice - Hugely disappointed with the news about Top Gear - 21st June
 * The conservatives are in the closet now that Ireland’s in the pink - What a wonderfully gay weekend! Not just the Eurovision song contest and the close of the Chelsea... - 23rd May
 * Ugh! Nigel’s kippers are eating each other for breakfast - This is the way small political parties end. In a sort of flesh-ripping frenzy of egotism, spite, jealousy and mutual loathing - 17th May
 * Hell yes, what a night. Now for a celebratory sniff of Tipp-Ex - My abiding memory of election night will be the incessant, spiteful cackling of my Tory-inclined wife. I thought she was going to do herself a mischief when poor Douglas Alexander’s result was announced, such was her jubilance - 10th May
 * Fold away the clean sheets, life’s real joy is others’ misfortune - A close friend of mine made the front page of a national newspaper last week - 19th April
 * Toasties get you laid, fat prevents dementia and I’m a sex god - The most important news of this febrile political week has been the revelation that people who eat... - 12th April
 * The Beeb needed its Jeremys to keep the bureaucrats at bay - This has not been an easy week for the BBC. The corporation has lost its most popular star in... - 29th March
 * Here's an easy boycott for you: don't spend £2,000 on a D&G suit - I wandered into the Dolce & Gabbana store in Old Bond Street last week to look for a new suit,... - 22nd March
 * That horrible whiff in kitchen No 2? It’s scullery-duggery - Oh, how I wish I had been a fly on the ol’ Farrow & Ball (that’s authentic cockney rhyming... - 15th March
 * Let’s give them our tired, our poor, our bearded terrorists - Convicted Pakistani-born terrorist Abid Naseer has one of those big, funky Muslim beards we’ve ... - 8th March
 * Do you, murderous queer-basher, take this gay man . . . ? - The banns have been read, the notices posted and — presumably — the invitations have already gone... - 22nd February
 * The kids are all right – it’s the middle-aged who’ve betrayed love - Here’s a Valentine’s Day special report, just for you. The dating website Illicit Encounters... - 15th February
 * Slow down, Chilcot – it’s not a real inquiry until everyone’s dead - Like you, I suspect, I have been greatly worried that Sir John Chilcot is proceeding with his... - 8th February
 * Hold your Trojan horses, Ofsted. Not all faith schools are devils - What exactly is it that lesbians do? I have never been very sure. I have occasionally tried to... - 1st February
 * It’s time to chuck the fatties off the benefits gravy train - There were two weird Scottish/cetacean hybrid women in the newspapers last week - 18th January
 * We must not draw a veil over Muslims’ view of blasphemy - On Thursday afternoon I was in Paris, listening with mounting incredulity to a leading French... - 11th January



Articles: 2014

 * My 2015 predictions: Ed is PM and even the turkeys flee Britain - The UN decrees 2015 to be International Year of Solidarity with the exciting Nigerian Muslim... - 28th December
 * When Kim Met Sony: a farce not coming to a cinema near you - So, now we know exactly what to do the next time Hollywood decides to portray Britain as a decrepit... - 21st December
 * Roger Bird? Oh no he didn’t! Please let this Ukip panto never end - There was always going to be a problem with a general secretary called Roger Bird, wasn’t there? - 14th December
 * Make way while I run the BBC off the road to Wigan Pier - It is with enormous pleasure and, indeed, humility that I bring to you the latest utterings of Mr... - 7th December
 * Shut up, you canting cabbies – swearing is bloody good for you - Are we all guilty of being a little bit hypocritical when we lay into a public figure - 30th November
 * Red flag at half mast, Labour: your love of the workers just died - Things have come to a pretty pass in this country when a politician can’t express an abiding... - 22nd November
 * That’s enough carping. Let Ched Evans play - There is no grimmer sight in this country than the confected politically correct furore in full swing - 16th November
 * Sure, mate, if your beer mat sums say immigration is fab . . . - We don’t know how lucky we are, sometimes. - 9th November
 * Breathe deeply, Nick – you’re not the only loser to turn to drugs - It is sad but nonetheless a fact of life that people in the very pit of despair, in the slough of... - 2nd November
 * The vanished Kim is a riddle wrapped in lots of Swiss cheese - I don’t want to add to your burden of sorrow unnecessarily - 19th October
 * The vanished Kim is a riddle wrapped in lots of Swiss cheese - I don’t want to add to your burden of sorrow unnecessarily - 12th October
 * Sorry, mon vieux. France really is skint, sapped and squalid - Here's my pitch to the television executives - 5th October
 * Farage enjoys a day at Doncaster and plays the race card - ‘Tell them if they want a transcript of my speech,” barks a tired Nigel Farage into the phone - 28th September
 * Let us pray . . . if you want, up to a point. No pressure - Does God exist and, if so, what’s he doing up there? - 21st September
 * Yours at a snip: a Jo’burg heaven with murder at the gate - Hey, real estate fans — have I got a column for you - 14th September
 * A radical way to end your Calais crisis, France: try being nice - Natacha Bouchart, the mayor of Calais, has the look of a desperate woman - 7th September
 * Cliff made some criminal records but he deserved better - Swoop swoop, it’s the sex-case plod in action again - 17th August
 * Welcome to the Cinema Leftie Halfwit – no Israelis allowed - The Jews are up to no good again, causing trouble — their enemies will say - 10th August
 * Those Ukraine selfies really capture your bad side, Vlad - The number of people viciously attacked by squirrels while trying to take selfies has sharply... - 3rd August
 * This heatwave report is perfect fuel for a bonfire of the quangos - Do you remember the bonfire of the quangos? - 20th July
 * Drop the staple gun, Doc, and tell Fatty to grow some willpower - 13th July
 * Just send £700 and you’ll help an aid boss with his bar bill - Just when you thought the Liberal Democrats were dead and buried, they come up with a scorcher - 6th July
 * Back off, Ofsted. It’s a Cumbrian primary, not Jihadist Juniors - It pains me to bring to your attention a dark story of racist and homophobic bullying in a British... - 29th June
 * Try this for free speech, you smug lot: tell Coogan to hack off - Not so long ago one of my favourite organisations, the RSPB, decided it might be a good idea to... - 22nd June
 * Blow the whistle, ref, I’m ready to quit this rotten, stinking game - There was a definite if brief sense of elation among British football fans when the ITV commentary team in Rio de Janeiro were bricked by a furious Brazilian mob - 15th June
 * The fish supper’s on Danny. Bring a pinch of salt and vinegar - At last, the campaign to keep Scotland within the United Kingdom has completely reversed its... - 8th June
 * Oo-er, George, they’ve sexed up your GDP figures - Did you know that the average price of a prostitute in the UK is £67? It’s a shame for the sake of... - 1st June
 * It’s the sneering, smearing BBC wot won it for UKIP - Right now, somewhere deep within the BBC, they’re wondering what the hell they can do with Jasmine... - 25th May
 * Yes, we’re doomed – if we treat climate sceptics as Nazis - I am not a climate change denier, although I am a weather change denier - 18th May
 * Waiter, waiter, this halal pizza really sticks in my craw - What horrors will we next find out about our food? You thought the horseys were bad, the lame and... - 11th May
 * Feel like a chicken tonight, Nigel? That’s because you are one - I asked a chap in Newark’s lovely marketplace whom he intended to vote for in the upcoming... - 4th May
 * Help us, doctor. We’re frightened of being ill in Cover-up General - When the Labour MP Ann Clwyd spoke movingly about her husband’s shocking treatment in a Welsh... - 27th April
 * Hey, parents, leave them kids alone – it’s good to get bored - What have you been fixing up for the kids this Easter? - 20th April
 * How do you sack a minister like Maria? Or rather, why won’t he? - It is not only man bites dog that makes an illuminating news story - 6th April
 * Chew on this insult, lardbucket. It’s for your own good - There was a wheezing mountain of compacted lard in front of me at the supermarket check-out - 30th March
 * Bingo! That’s how the stupid party could lose the election - More and more, the Conservative-led government is beginning to resemble the aquatic worm that will... - 23rd March
 * Dear BBC, you guys are great. Please take more of my cash - Someone, probably himself, should give Danny Cohen a television show. It is a national disgrace... - 9th March
 * It’s enough to turn my stomach — and I don’t mean the pig’s head - Why do pigs’ heads in butchers’ shops always appear to be grinning? - 2nd March
 * Tell us more about your paedophile chums, Harriet - What a pleasure it is to see the Paedophile Information Exchange back in the news: it’s been too... - 23rd February
 * London bullies have just put more wind in Salmond’s kilt - In that sharp and underrated song Donald Where’s Your Troosers?, the hero — Donald — is a midget... - 16th February
 * Calm down: even the Speaker’s wife is still a daughter of Eve - One evening last weekend, Sally Bercow, the wife of the Speaker of the House of Commons, was... - 9th February
 * Scarlett, you’re right; Oxfam’s wrong. And if you need a cuddle ... - Did you realise SodaStream was still going? - 2nd February
 * Ofsted is dire, but whoever taught Sir is the dunce to expel - Poor old Ofsted — nobody likes it. The left hates it for compromising the sovereignty of teachers - 26th January
 * What’s this clammy feeling? Ah, yes, sympathy for Clegg - Have you had your personal space violated by the Liberal Democrat peer Lord Rennard recently? - 19th January
 * It isn’t warming, PM: it’s ye olde monster of yore called winter - The wind whips round, the rain comes down, the tiles are off the roof and on the television news... - 12th January
 * Next on Radio 4, the news for leftie halfwits — just for a change - I thought, as a special seasonal treat for readers, that I would get my column this week to be guest-edited by a credulous left-wing celebrity imbecile, just to ring the changes. It’s good to get a different perspective on the world, isn’t it? - 5th January



Articles: 2013

 * Farage is following the wrong scent – Basil Brush has all the votes - It was heartwarming to see a record number of scarlet-jacketed psychopaths gathering on Boxing Day... - 29th December
 * Vlad goes soft ahead of Sochi but Heather Mills puts the boot in - 22nd December
 * Ah, your dad would have been so proud, young Jong-un - Sometimes, in my darker moments, I suspect I’d enjoy having the absolute power of North Korea’s... - 15th December
 * A good day to bury a decent man . . . and Lord Patten’s silence on bias - Late last week I watched BBC News at Ten in the hope of seeing what the Beeb did with the story about its chairman, Lord Patten, refusing to testify before a House of Commons committee - 8th December
 * Comrade Bala of Brixton sets my old red flag aflutter - 1st December
 * Hard luck, huskies. Dave’s finally realised green isn’t his colour - Have you ever seen our prime minister look more cosmetically earnest than when he was being pulled across some Norwegian glacier by a bunch of huskies? - 24th November
 * That’s the president of Sri Lanka, PM, not one of your fags - I have to say, I thoroughly approve of the manner in which our prime minister has decided to deal with foreigners, especially jumped–up foreigners who by rights should really still be part of our dominion and thus be doing as they’re bloody well told - 17th November
 * Too late, O’Leary — ‘mugs’ like me have clipped your wings - 10th November
 * Lou Reed dies and suddenly even the bishop has a wild side - It has now been exactly one week since the tragic death of the brilliant, brittle, rock-star genius - 3rd November
 * Yes, Russell, life’s just howwible. Now grow up, will you - It was a clever idea to get Russell Brand to edit an edition of the New Statesman - 27th October
 * Roy of the Racists is a fiction to make monkeys of us all - What a disgrace it is that the racist bigot Roy Hodgson has been allowed to remain in his job - 20th October
 * In the life of Brian Leveson, curiosity’s for very naughty boys - I am glad we have a senior Lord Justice of Appeal called Brian - 13th October
 * Live sex on squealing, idiotic C4: I can’t think of anything less sexy - Who is the last person in the world you would ever want to meet? - 6th October
 * Yo, the National Trust is in da house – and culture’s been evicted - At last the National Trust is moving with the times - 29th September
 * Sir David in his natural habitat . . . ranting about starving Africa - Imagine for a moment that you are watching a natural history documentary on television - 22nd September
 * Bedroom tax bad, animal sacrifice good for Comrade Brazil Nut - Dark, dark was the Paris night as Raquel Rolnik laboured away at her dissertation, the ghosts of so many French philosophers, from Descartes to Sartre, flapping around her head - 15th September
 * Putin’s right – Britain is so small, so soft, so not a mafia hellhole - 8th September
 * Oh, UKIP – just when we were starting to love your brand of fruitcake -18th August
 * In Fry’s Gay Rights on Ice, history slips through the cracks - Whose side to take in the epic battle between Vladimir Putin and our own Stephen Fry? - 11th August
 * When nuclear war loomed, we lefties were the nightmare - For most of 1983, I suffered recurrent nightmares - 4th August
 * O Lord, make us ethically pure — but not yet - In the modern Church of England, there are plenty of places to perform a U-turn - 28th July
 * Ah, holidays! Now where can we go to get locked up? - I’ve always held that it is rude to inquire of someone where they are going on their holidays - 21st July
 * Give MPs their pay rise, unless you want Tesco’s finest as PM - It’s always a pleasure to report acts of political bravery - 14th July
 * Wrong, BBC – your bias is today’s news, not a history special - The BBC has been accused of endemic political bias again — this time by one of its own executives - 7th July
 * Laser pen at the ready, Pippa: aim for Djokovic’s eyes - So, the big question this week is: how are we going to nobble Novak Djokovic? - 30th June
 * Greedy, lecherous, godless and young – meet Dave’s No 1 fans - Interesting evidence has emerged that confirms what some of us have long suspected: that the under-30s, known these days as Generation Y, are showing what we might call early signs of madness - 23rd June
 * If they'll sit the citizenship test in a gay bar, we'll take 'em - What are the sorts of question we should be asking foreigners who wish to live in this country - 16th June
 * With this Godfather tsar, social mobility sleeps with the fishes - It is not difficult to understand how Hanah Caan came to be employed by the entrepreneur - 9th June
 * Don’t mention immigration, or the dinner party’s over - There’s a mildly amusing website called First World Problems, which parodies the dilemmas faced by the most affluent of us and the high seriousness with which we take them - 2nd June
 * The BBC tiptoes on eggshells over race and crushes the truth - This is an open letter to a man called James. This particular James is white, middle-aged and public-school and Oxbridge-educated, and he’s running the important bits of the BBC - 26th May
 * Those foreigners – so racist and, unlike us, so honest - One of the things I’ve never much liked about foreigners is how racist they are - 19th May
 * Professor Hawking’s protest is a brief history of humbug - The behaviour of Stephen Hawking has become as confusing as that of those fairly small particles he gets so excited about, muons and bosons and the like - 12th May
 * The BBC doesn't need respect - it needs a few more bullies - Is there enough bullying taking place within the BBC? - 5th May
 * Warning to foreigners who bite: this nation contains nuts - Almost everything that is bad or despicable or simply disgusting in life is a consequence of foreigners. And, by and large, the swarthier the foreigners, the more despicable they are likely to be - 28th April
 * Get Brighton to A&E – it’s overdosing on liberal claptrap - There’s a language everyone has to use these days and it is very difficult to get the hang of - 21st April
 * The last non-hate crime: giving straight, white men a black eye - It is getting more and more tricky to know whom one can punch or vilify in the street - 7th April
 * Don’t dial 999 – PC Plod’s too busy assassinating cows - When the police in Lincolnshire were informed last week that a cow was wandering freely around the town of Grantham and had taken up residence in a local authority car park without paying, this is what they did - 30th March
 * Great Train Robber dies at 81 – but that’s enough about his IQ - What an enormous joy it was to see Ronnie Biggs, his face resembling a meat pie, snarling and... - 24th March
 * Yes, Lord Ahmed – and that vulture was a Mossad agent too - The Jews have been accused of being up to no good again - 17th March
 * Marriage is fine – if you want to explode like Chris ’n’ Vicky - I hope the homosexuals who have been clamouring and agitating for the right to get married take a... - 10th March
 * Bless me, Father – you keep so much under your cassock - My late mother forbade me to go anywhere near our local Roman Catholic church - 3rd March
 * Hail Thatcher and Blyton? Well, they were hardly Stalin - What should we do about Thatcher and Blyton? - 17th February
 * I stay at home. I’m a dad. What more do you want? - What a thrill it is to be part of a pioneering minority - 27th January
 * Come to my Great War party. Please bring a victory song - How should we, as a country, commemorate the centenary of the start of the First World War? - 20th January
 * Global warming is just resting. Loons, please do the same - Global warming has apparently had enough of us, and it’s gone away for a bit - 13th January
 * Run for it, islanders: the non-colonialist Argies are coming - I am entirely in favour of handing Las Malvinas back to Argentina on the principle that the islands are only 400 miles from Buenos Aires - 6th January



Articles: 2012

 * Forget Twitter louts, PC Plod, there are real crooks to follow - I see “Suralan” has stepped into the debate over whether or not Piers Morgan should be kicked out - 30th December
 * And, lo, Patten is still BBC chairman and I am sore afraid - Christmas is, of course, a time for miracles. It’s a traditional thing, I believe - 23rd December
 * First pardon Turing, then we’ll nick that racist nut Churchill - The BBC should have more gay and lesbian presenters for children’s television programmes - 16th December
 * Beneath the pious froth, Starbucks is a full-fat hypocrite - 9th December
 * Blairite munchkins and leftie lizards run the whole show now - Is the Leveson inquiry into press standards being subverted by a shadowy conspiracy of left-liberal, alien, lizard-type creatures, as the Daily Mail suggested on Friday? - 18th November
 * Relax: we’re all in the hands of ‘Adolf’s little girl’ - Is Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, really the secret daughter of Adolf Hitler, as so many people maintain? - 11th November
 * The coalition wind blows both ways but it’s just hot air - What’s happening with on-shore wind farms, then? - 4th November
 * Typhoon Conrad’s just blown smug TV to smithereens - I will bet that right now some enterprising television producer is importuning Lord Black of Crossharbour - 27th October
 * Let Galloway’s show go on – even when all Respect is gone - What on earth would we do without George Galloway? You have to say that the Respect MP for Bradford West gives of himself relentlessly for our amusement; scarcely a week goes by without him delivering thoroughly entertaining and deranged behaviour - 21st October
 * Abu Hamza may be gone but freedom is still on the hook - So farewell, Abu Hamza. It was fun having you here, but you had to go - 7th October
 * Bravo, Mr Nasty: pushy PCs deserve a crack of the whip - It is vitally important, I have always found, that when shouting obscenities at the police one should not disclose one’s real identity - 23rd September
 * Will the last Lib Dem to desert please give Clegg a backbone - Some startling news emerged from an opinion poll last week: apparently there is a handful of people in this country still planning to vote for the Liberal Democrats - 16th September
 * Pass the fire hose – Edwina has curried her colleagues again - Edwina Currie: the gift that keeps on giving. Long after we had expected the former minister to shut up and go away, she is still howling about past injustices - 9th September
 * Ker-ching! Let the oligarch wars rage on in broke Britain - It is time to celebrate the rich, multicultural diversity of life in Great Britain - 2nd September
 * At last — a crack in the dam of the great exam scam - So, let us gather together and mourn the passing of a wonderful tradition of late British summer - 26th August
 * Storm the Foreign Office – Assange has sent it loopy - Sadly there is no law that requires foreign ambassadorial staff to reveal the contents of their diplomatic bags to the police - 19th August
 * Wrong, Emmeline – women just want the Stepford life - These are women who could work if they wanted to but they would rather not; they would rather let their husbands do it - 12th August
 * Watch out, world, here comes the Romneyshambles - Laugh now — pay later - 29th July 2012
 * Rampant migration a bad thing? Who’d have thought it, Ed - At last, immigration has become a subject it’s okay to talk about without the police getting involved - 22nd July 2012
 * Call the Milky Bar Kid – this minister is not a full pinta - How much is a pint of milk? That’s one of those questions that are often asked of politicians by mean-spirited journalists ... - 15th July 2012
 * Psychos are out to get us, all right: they wear hi-vis vests - At long last the police are taking action over people who “smoke” those ludicrous and demeaning electronic cigarette - 8th July 2012
 * Write out 100 times, parents: I must shut up and let sir teach - Some poor sap of a headmaster is in trouble — for the crime of telling his pupils to pipe down for a few minutes - 1st July 2012
 * Onward, Christian soldiers – join the EU in oblivion - Why is the Church of England so fervent in its support of the European Union, do you suppose? - 24th June 2012
 * The hard fact is our teachers find facts too hard to teach - Teachers and educationalists are justifiably outraged by the latest madcap plan from the education secretary, Michael Gove - 17th June 2012
 * Hypocrites, pseuds and incompetents of the age, I salute you - Who are the people who have made Britain what it is today, the ones who ensured that we became a limp-wristed and decrepit, post-imperial satrapy of incompetence, sanctimony, self-obsession and self-loathing? - 27th May 2012
 * More tea, Genghis? That’s how the Queen should treat a tyrant - Why weren’t the television cameras allowed into the Queen’s magnificent Jubilee Lunch with Bloodstained Despots? - 20th May 2012
 * Beat it, Mr Nice Guy – the lardies only listen if you’re nasty - If you siphoned off the fat from the morbidly obese population of Britain, using one of those suction pumps they have in clinics, it would create enough mass to constitute an island the size of Okinawa - 13th May
 * No, Sir Humphrey, you’re not a firm so cough up your tax - Here’s something I’ve been puzzling about all week. Which is the easier thing to do - 6th May



Articles: 2011

 * Just plead ‘Miaow’ and the law starts pussyfooting - The (now infamous) cat was not the be all and end all of why a Bolivian living in the UK illegally was allowed to stay by a judge - 9th October 2011
 * The predictable decline of the lesser spotted lesbian - The country is not quite as our liberal Establishment wishes it to be — there are far fewer lesbians and far more Christians than it professes - 2nd October 2011
 * We don’t need no education, sir, we’ve got human rights - What a disturbing ideology it is which treats the parents of school children as consumers who must always be right - 25th September 2011
 * Here’s my plan B, McSmug: pay for your own country - Alex Salmond should remember that the government subsidises every person in Scotland by £1,600 more than people south of the border - 18th September 2011
 * We can’t deal with young, black crime by hiding its name - In one particular sector of society there is a specific problem — and if we accept that there is, then we can do something about it - 11th September 2011
 * Come on, Vanessa, invite the tinkers into your garden - When the travellers of Dale farm are made to leave they should move to Vanessa Redgrave’s back garden and see how she likes it - 4th September 2011
 * say, Jeeves, that Nazi novelist takes the giddy biscuit'' - PG Wodehouse made a series of broadcasts for the Nazis in 1941, telling Americans the National Socialists were a peaceful bunch - 28th August 2011
 * Adolf jibe was a joke – remember those?'' - Finally, at least we can have a laugh at something after a summer which has, quite frankly, been non too impressive - 21st August 2011
 * the medical messenger – see if that’ll cure you'' - Medical experts who put forward controversial ideas should investigate their theories and not give in to 'extremist' sufferers - 31st July 2011
 * time you receive a gas bill, strike a match'' - Energy bills are about to rise by a minimum of twice the level of inflation — perhaps we have found a new group to direct our anger towards - 24th July 2011
 * breed, we pay — welcome to the spawning spongers'' - Why do people such as Joanne Watson believe that one can keep producing child after child after child and get someone else to pay for it? - 17th July 2011
 * we can shout at Scousers, not Indians, in call centres'' - Somehow I feel less bad about being abusive to an English chap who has failed to sort out my problem than to some bloke in Delhi - 10th July 2011
 * cry of rape and men are guilty till proven innocent'' - We were too hasty to judge DSK — a consequence of our own insecurities over rape convictions (and our enjoyment of enraging the French) - 3rd July 2011
 * MPs bearing hypocrisy over the Greek crisis'' - Morally and intellectually a large proportion of the house should be demanding that we write the bailout cheque out this minute - 26th June 2011
 * jury are tweeting idiots'' - Jurors who use Twitter and Facebook during trials aren't a threat to justice — but we should be suspicious about their intellectual ability - 19th June 2011
 * yes, but Philip crushes touchy-feely fools'' - The Duke of Edinburgh clearly doesn't give a monkey's about who he offends or being polite to the press. But he's a dying breed - 12th June 2011
 * freeloaders snaffle gold as Olympic scroungers'' - Instead of repeating old mistakes, we should deny Fifa free access to the 2012 Games and give their tickets to disappointed fans - 5th June 2011
 * Ed, there’s a bit of a hitch with you getting hitched'' - Ed Milliband, who is not a big believer in the institution of marriage, tied the knot on Friday in a quiet ceremony with Justine - 29th May 2011
 * and smug humanists — both awful'' - The end of the world is not quite as nigh as many yesterday thought, despite Harold Camping's prediction of the Rapture - 22nd May 2011
 * at the end of Lousy Street in Heartburn hotel'' - The Lonely Planet's observation of British hotels is right — they are expensive, poor quality and downright depressing - 15th May 2011
 * — more deadly than a full English'' - The answer to mixed messages about what is bad for your health is not to believe any of them. Here's what I would add to the death roster - 8th May 2011
 * over Kung Fu Fighting — a little bit frightening'' - I never liked Bruce Lee. But is it racist, the song? - 1st May 2011
 * me, you idiots, every little Tesco riot doesn’t help'' - People favour supermarkets because the staple goods are cheap. That’s why there are lots of supermarkets, because people like them - 24th April 2011
 * barking now Tories and dogs are back on top'' - Dogs are Tory pets: they epitomise old-fashioned virtues such as obedience, loyalty, discipline. They are pets enjoyed by nuclear families - 10th April 2011
 * halfwits who want airstrikes — but no killing'' - The liberals now believe things are getting a bit too hot in Libya. Hell, civilians are in danger! Imagine that, in a war - 3rd April 2011
 * are cashing in again, but our anger’s spent'' - MPs must be relieved their children will travel at our expense, and that none of us can muster the energy to start the whole debate again - 27th March 2011
 * England doesn’t exist, but many wish it did'' - Midsomer Murders portrays the sort of country I want to live in: a gentle rural idyll in which people bludgeon each other to death with candlesticks - 20th March 2011
 * number’s up if Sir David can’t talk population'' - When we have a discussion about man-made climate change, it appears that some things remain permanently off-limits - 13th March 2011
 * is bad, LSE, but how do you explain Ms Liberty?'' - Shami Chakrabarti seldom turns down a request to appear on Question Time for Liberty, nor did she turn down a donation from Colonel Gadaffi - 6th March 2011
 * ... My tweet just destroyed a regime'' - Social networks are fuelling revolutions, news of the Downing Street cat is disappearing and a school bans footballs after child is nearly hurt - 27th February 2011
 * Auntie needs a thug, not a diplomat'' - Chris Patten is by nature diplomatic — and if the BBC is to survive then it needs taking by the neck and shaken rather brusquely every so often - 20th February 2011
 * wrong, BBC, black northerners like Radio 4'' - You have to fear for the BBC. It is struggling at the moment to make a case for its continued existence in a rapidly changing market - 13th February 2011
 * kids’ choice — be a gay Nazi or thick and right-on'' - Given the choice between siring a gay fascist and a well-adjusted illiterate imbecile, I think the former may be more desirable - 6th February 2011
 * is, indeed, a Rosa Parks moment'' - When minority rights are weighed and measured these days it is, incredibly enough, the Christians who tend to come off worst - 23rd January 2011
 * the Tories fume, Bercow-baiting is too much fun'' - Never has a Speaker been as loathed as John Bercow. It's worth keeping this little gnome there just for the pleasure of watching the rage he induces - 16th January 2011
 * few dead crabs? It’s not the end of the world'' - Millennialist fantasy is a form of narcissism, that we alone possess the information and the morality to either save the world or be saved ourselves - 9th January 2011



Articles: 2010

 * left in a tizz over Assange'' - The British left is in a wonderfully entertaining dilemma over Julian Assange, a crusading liberal hero who is accused of assaulting a woman - 26th December 2010
 * daily fix is to stigmatise these smackheads'' - It is not a good thing to be a junkie. That is why we stigmatise it — not because we are thick or unenlightened or right-wing - 19th December 2010
 * a lovely protest — unless you're the Old Bill'' - There was a sort of carnival atmosphere in Parliament Square. It was like Glastonbury, except — mercifully — without Rolf Harris - 12th December 2010
 * surprise — Sarkozy and Silvio are weird'' - How could you sit in a room with Gordon Brown for more than five minutes and not feel your very soul being sucked out of your skull? - 4th December 2010
 * us the short fuse, Dave was just being funny'' - Some of the nation's dwarves are beside themselves with rage at David Cameron for his joke, but this makes it all the more funny - 28th November 2010
 * yer bike, Lord Young — you can't say that'' - Whisper it quietly, recessions often benefit the better-off, no matter how much we buy into this notion that we are all hurting - 21st November 2010
 * you deserve a pot shot from the ‘poppy fascists’'' - Snow has, once again, refused to wear a poppy while on screen and hit back at those who objected to his rejection of 'poppy fascism' - 7th November 2010
 * it comes to cheek, Cherie’s got the lot'' - The generous assessment is that Cherie is merely a woman doing as women do and getting all strung out on eBay and the chance of a bargain - 31st October 2010
 * wangle — a masterclass in the pitiful game'' - When you can be awarded £41.6m for being utterly useless for six months, there is no great incentive to be less useless in the future - 24th October 2010
 * get me a veil to wind up the frothing French'' - The bad Muslim men don’t wear veils. They wear Lycra shell suits and Nikes with fuses sticking out of the top. Have you not noticed this? - 17th October 2010
 * shoot-first law that always finds the Met not guilty'' - At least Saunders had a shotgun with which the police can now defend themselves. All Jean Charles de Menezes had was a rucksack - 10th October 2010
 * notion lets Stalin into the workplace'' - Harriet Harman’s berserk Equality Act is an example of how faux-left wishful thinking transforms itself very quickly into Stalinism - 3rd October 2010
 * bonfire of the absurdities warms my heart'' - 'You could lose almost all of these bodies and life would proceed as normal and in many cases might even be enhanced' - 26th September 2010
 * would vote for you, Diane, but. . .'' - For months my wife and I have agonised over which group of middle-class Londoners who have never worked in the real world we wish to run Labour - 19th September 2010
 * – a revealing tale of Tory stupidity'' - The story of Jonathan Djanogly and 'snoopgate' reveals a worrying strain of entitlement in the parliamentary candidate selection process - 11th September 2010
 * not biased at the Beeb – they just know better'' - The BBC is desperate to be fair according to the rules laid out by its charter, but despite the convictions of its staff it is never truly fair - 5th September 2010
 * crew can’t serve you, they’re busy goose-stepping'' - Since 9/11, cabin crew have become infected with the idea that they defend us against murderous jihadists, like the SAS with better hair gel. They're not - 15th August 2010
 * up, sisters — it’s men’s work that is never done'' - Not all women take advantage of employers and refuse to work unsociable hours — but many have been encouraged to do so - 8th August 2010
 * back stigmas, minister — and not just for fatties'' - If you stigmatise someone, it lets them know, far better than an Asbo or a CT scan, that how they are living their lives, is somehow ghastly - 1st August 2010
 * bloodlust – with the usual wrong suspects'' - Summer is, by tradition, the time we set aside for having a go at our pesky wildlife. And this year it’s the grey squirrels - 25th July 2010
 * can run Westminster – if they can find it'' - When women do rise to power in politics, they tend to do rather well and demonstrate many of the traits that we consider 'masculine' - 18th July 2010
 * stone the relativists and see how they like it'' - Ashtiani will most likely still be executed — but at least she will be hopping up and down with delight that she is not to be stoned to death - 11th July 2010
 * this oily deal, expect any old celeb in high office'' - John Browne's civil service appointment despite evidence pointing to his role in BP's recent catastrophe is highly disappointing - 4th July 2010
 * big mistake, Mr Huhne, was not being gay'' - David Laws received sympathy after his misdemeanours, but the heterosexual Chris Huhne has suffered nothing but opprobrium - 27th June 2010
 * townies - don't treat Mr Fox as a pet'' - When I lived in London, we had a fox resident in our street. This was Dulwich, so his name was probably Giles or Oliver - 13th June 2010
 * England is just not the same without xenophobia'' - Extreme drunken bigotry and xenophobia, we in this country are extraordinarily good at it, much better than we are at football - 6th June 2010
 * could sort this scam out, but we’re too incapacitated'' - Under Labour, if you wished to be disabled, all you had to do was say that you were and your wish was granted - 30th May 2010
 * the election? Well, enjoy being an oaf for a while'' - Now our Labour MPs can eat a full English three times a day then leave the toilet seat up if they want - 16th May 2010
 * Jacqui ditched – what a night'' - The story of this election was the mass glee with which people turned upon miscreants and rewarded the decent - 9th May 2010
 * not just the Greeks'' - It's not looking good for the Greeks, or indeed for the rest of those eurozone countries who might have to bail them out - 2nd May 2010
 * it: you’re stuck with me till 2060'' - I was 50 a few weeks back and immediately noticed that my younger wife had been Googling local crematoriums and flower shops - 25th April 2010
 * pox and killer hornets beat the election any day'' - While you’ve been glued to the latest election news, Kerry Katona has kissed a Sea Lion and 800 goats have died - 18th April 2010
 * was no cultural genius – just a lucky punk'' - Malcolm’s conformist non-conforming was less potent and more laughable than taking a gig advertising Country Life butter - 11th April 2010
 * again, m’lud'' - If moral rectitude resides with journalist in Simon Singh's chiropractor case, why didn't Mr Justice Eady see that? - 4th April 2010
 * can’t forgive the sins of your church'' - The church still gives the impression that its kiddie-fiddling priests are not half as Satanic as stuff like condoms and socialism - 28th March 2010
 * a charitable response from Bob the bludgeoner'' - A BBC investigation has driven Bob Geldof to the verge of apoplexy. It seems as if the silicon chip inside his head got switched to overload - 14th March 2010
 * come on, DG, make an honest woman of Auntie'' - Have you heard BBC Radio 1 recently? An endless fugue of established mid-market banal pop music interspersed with wacky imbecilic chatter - 8th March 2010
 * could do with more dimwit MPs'' - Minister for Immigration Phil Woolas has form. He was outwitted in three seconds flat by Purdey from The New Avengers - 28th February 2010
 * on, give Tiger another good kick'' - Woods’s 'crimes' were not really crimes at all, though George Orwell might have called them shagcrimes or textcrimes - 21st February 2010
 * cyber-fascists slaughtering a decent teacher'' - Electronic media allows the splenetically dunderheaded to impose their will upon others, in a spectacularly uninformed manner - 14th February 2010
 * trumps morality in Terry’s game of charades'' - You may think Terry a repulsive monkey, but the truth is that he was sacked because he got caught - 7th February 2010
 * years on and we’re still in thrall to rebellious youth'' - It is but a short, skag-addled, hop, skip and a jump from Holden Caulfield, the hero of The Catcher in the Rye, to Pete Doherty - 31st February 2010
 * warning: raised from daft to perplexing'' - The government will be happy only when we agree to stay indoors all the time and maybe tiptoe out for milk and fags once a week - 24th January 2010
 * must defend the right to be stupid, vile and obnoxious'' - Shouting nasty things and holding up placards has only recently been seen as something which should be dragged before the courts - 17th January 2010
 * Mia! What an ordeal'' - This musical is successful, charming and brilliant — if you have breasts and a fondness for Swedish pop music - 10th January 2010
 * emigrating – to the countryside'' - The UK has dropped to 25th place in a best place to live survey. It is like being told that Peter Andre has a higher IQ than yours - 10th January 2010
 * meritocracy to mediocrity in a decade'' - Everyone must have a voice and that voice must be heard and taken seriously, even if it is a very, very, stupid voice - 3rd January 2010



Articles: 2009

 * out, world – Dr Doomsayer may be visiting you soon'' - Sir Liam has revelled in his unofficial role as honorary fifth horseman of the apocalypse - 20th December 2009
 * for the God squad, defeat for common sense'' - Quite clearly, the Volestranglers were rude and Tazi was entirely within her rights to have objected to her treatment - 13th December 2009
 * power to the people and expect lunacy'' - They could have banned cuckoo clocks, mountains and venality and made the world a much happier place. But no, they chose minarets - 6th December 2009
 * terribly polite bombshell'' - The Iraq war inquiry began in a strange atmosphere of high civility, yet already its revelations are damning - 29th November 2009
 * joke’s on us as Bling Central loses its sparkle'' - We are dragged down because our bankers — the ones who dropped us in it last year — bought into this bizarre fiction too - 29th November 2009
 * Queen’s speech in full . . . plus a translation'' - My government will endeavour to ensure not only that England hosts the World Cup in 2018, but actually wins it too - 22nd November 2009
 * heartland won’t be fooled again'' - There is something a little pitiful watching Brown tell the country how worried he is about immigration and how it must not be taboo - 15th November 2009
 * is the only thing that sticks to the likes of Teflon Terry'' - Do you ever wonder how people get jobs, I mean the really big jobs paying more in a year than you’ll earn in two decades - 8th November 2009
 * blow off truth about drugs'' - I often wonder to what extent the narcissistic bilge you read in your daily newspapers is a consequence of cocaine rammed up the nostril - 1st November 2009
 * parents should learn respect'' - My school’s judgment — right or wrong — was good enough for my parents. It's a pity that this no longer appears to be the case - 25th October 2009
 * in charge, so fill your boots'' - One year ago, if you suggested it was okay for bankers to have their bonuses, you would have been shunned by polite society - 18th October 2009
 * bankers haven’t learnt that greed is good . . . for nothing'' - I wonder if you added up the cost of the crimes of every prisoner in this country whether the total would come to anywhere near £27 billion - 4th October 2009
 * for the skivvy may hang milady out to dry'' - Very shortly I will be able to reveal to you the whole truth about Baroness Scotland’s employment of an illegal immigrant - 27th September 2009
 * farce played out in Milady’s parlour'' - Government doesn't have the slightest clue how many illegal immigrants are in the UK at the moment or for whom they are working - 20th September 2009
 * big scandal here isn’t the sale of Rover, minister'' - A public inquiry took £16m to tell us what we already knew and buy some time for politicians - 13th September 2009
 * you big nancy, I know who the real bigots are'' - If the Bishop of Winchester pulls out, I’d like to be considered as a replacement on the shortlist for bigot of the year - 6th September 2009
 * truth: there are too many of us'' - The quicker the problem of overpopulation can be uncoupled from racial rhetoric, the more likely we are to address the real issue - 30th August 2009
 * politicians and no clue, either'' - The last thing anybody wants is for their local politician to be a politician - 9th August 2009
 * is the last thing a healthy marriage needs'' - Research on the link between divorce and health is so striking that perhaps we should all view our partners in a new light - 2nd August 2009
 * wonder we take a sickie - to avoid this hype'' - Bored with work? Have a couple of weeks off then, and tell them it’s swine flu - 26th July 2009
 * thought for the day: God has left the BBC building'' - The BBC’s conception of religious belief is constrained by political correctness and alien to a good many people in the country - 19th July 2009
 * Clegg can’t support troops with blanks'' - News from Afghanistan has been grim recently and getting grimmer - now onto the battlefield strides Field Marshal Clegg - 12th July 2009
 * Labour strategy - enact a law, then campaign against it'' - It will be a great consolation to Gary McKinnon when he begins his prison sentence in the United States to know that back home, the prime minister’s wife is still shedding tears for him - 5th July 2009
 * up, Auntie, and ditch the leaden middle managers'' - We have a BBC which is suffocated by massively over-remunerated and not terribly bright middle managers - 28th June 2009
 * the forecast: the Met Office will get it wrong, again'' - Thank the Lord the Met Office wasn’t around in Noah’s day with a forecast for the Ararat region - 21st June 2009
 * murder was not racist'' - Apologies if this offends, but most violent street crime in London is committed by young black men - 14th June 2009
 * can't make BBC salaries public'' - If we knew what Auntie paid, it would kill her. We've had enough of transparency and openness - 7th June 2009
 * dolts, madmen – ooh, I can’t wait to vote'' - WIll you vote for some wretched Westminster wannabe or one of the weird ones on the fringe at the polling boot this week? - 31st May 2009
 * an MP’s true arrogance than false humility'' - We are simply jealous of his large home and what right do we have to know of his personal arrangements? - 24th May 2009
 * the BNP speak – and drown in its own poison'' - Guess what song British National party leader Nick Griffin has for his ring tone. Sweet Home Alabama - 17th May 2009
 * we let you stay, Jacqui'' - It’s an especial privilege to have you as home secretary, Jacqui. Have another hundred grand for your housing expenses, love - 10th May 2009
 * flu to kill us? And pigs can fly'' - What is the right response when you see someone wearing one of those stupid face masks? - 3rd May 2009
 * hollow lessons in the art of public speaking'' - Letting Alastair Campbell teach kids is like putting Beelzebub in charge of a Sunday School - 26th April 2009
 * ’ello, ’ello - PC Porkie Pie is on the case again'' - For an institution seemingly run by serial incompetents, the Met is extraordinarily creative when it comes to telling lies - 12th April 2009
 * mole men of Broughton put the brakes on Google'' - Probably an entire village of weird, alien-type creatures from a John Wyndham novel - 5th April 2009
 * you may need the left-footers one day'' - Those of us who consider ourselves true progressives would have said abolish the monarchy, full stop - 29th March 2009
 * a gay, blind suicide bomber walks into a bar . . .'' - At last – legislation is about to be passed which will make homophobic jokes illegal - 22nd March 2009
 * have a right to protest'' - Are you allowed to ask baggage handlers if they are inclined to slip plastic explosives inside people’s luggage? - 15th March 2009
 * for human rights and psycho jihadists'' - Treating people decently is about our only trump card in this wearying battle against the jihadists - 22nd February 2009
 * on course to learn diverse varieties of tosh'' - The MoD these days has more diversity awareness training courses than it has properly armoured vehicles - 15th February 2009
 * liberties with reality helps no one, Shami'' - There is something about the boss of Liberty, that makes me squeal with irritation - 8th February 2009
 * in the cabinet stood up to Blair?'' - The truth is that nobody stamped their feet too hard for fear of losing their agreeable jobs - 1st February 2009
 * one of our few friends – nice work, Miliband'' - Is he Britain’s worst-ever foreign secretary, or was his incompetence eclipsed by Lord Halifax? - 25th January 2009
 * can’t expect 'free' cash back'' - It may be that these are cash machines with a conscience, which have decided unilaterally that the banks have gone too far - 18th January 2009
 * can’t get enough of little green men'' - A wind turbine in Lincolnshire was mysteriously damaged by a collision with an alien spacecraft from the Planet Thrang - 11th January 2009
 * with the anti-fat brigade'' - Trust me on this; nothing the government does about obesity will be good enough for the National Obesity Forum - 4th January 2009



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 * speech for a tyrant – how very Channel 4'' - Pointing the camera at a random madman and letting him rant is thus "edgy", although it requires nothing in the way of wit or thought - 28th December 2008
 * the cap fits, then obviously the local weirdo did it'' - The police adopted a tried and trusted method when investigating the murder of Rachel Nickell: arrest the local weirdo - 21st December 2008
 * right, vicar, let’s ban our lying, oppressive carols'' - The Rev Steve thinks he knows better than everyone else and used his power to make sure his congregation toes the line - 14th December 2008
 * teachers should stick to the school rules too'' - Parents should be told that rules are absolutely straightforward and are to be abided by without negotiation - 7th December 2008
 * Frank – we’ve never had it so condescending'' - Both (Frank) Field and (Andrew) Lansley, in their different ways, are in essence complaining that the public has had it too good - 30th November 2008
 * BNP, but leftie thugs are welcome'' - I suspect there is not a single copper anywhere in the country who agrees with every law of the land - 23rd November 2008
 * worry – you can keep your nose in the trough, Sir Ian'' - 16th November 2008
 * BBC will never understand until the licence fee stops'' - 9th November 2008
 * me a damp squib over a wayward rocket'' - It is a long-standing British tradition on the evening of November 5 to congregate in our local hospitals to keen over injured teenagers - 2nd November 2008
 * George, what first attracted you?'' - It’s the Shirley Valentine syndrome, falling for a perhaps shady but charismatic foreigner - 26th October 2008
 * ordinary Joe could still sink Obama'' - Right now the deranged and deluded of the United States are busy ringing up plumbers called Joe - 19th October 2008
 * Britain scrounges the jackpot'' - Public institutions seem to have a list of priorities upon which the most deserving people come last - 12th October 2008
 * the awful Ian Blair, re-enter the awful Mandelson'' - 5th October 2008
 * dare those foreigners die for us'' - If foreign servicemen want to join the British Army we shouldn't look such a gift horse in the mouth - 28th September 2008
 * get creative with facts when it comes to evolution'' - 14th September 2008
 * has nailed Labour’s problem; and its coffin'' - As Charles Clarke lays into the PM once again he should consider the damage he is doing to the Labour Party as a whole - 7th September 2008
 * Ian gets mugged by his PC brigade'' - Some see it as ironic this politically correct copper should be accused of being politically incorrect - 31st August 2008
 * teens . . . but the alternative is worse'' - If teenagers become a thing of the past, who will pay for our pensions when the Poles have gone home? - 24th August 2008
 * a surprise; Charles’s ignorance crops up again'' - Prince Charles has spoken out about the dangers of GM crops but we shouldn't just take his word for it - 17th August 2008
 * we do love the heroic loser'' - The funding body for Team GB might be demanding medals but it doesn't mean it's going to get them - 10th August 2008
 * That’s the spirit, Bishop Bigot. Let’s hate everybody - I have been wondering who Jesus Christ would have liked least, Africans or homosexuals - 3rd August 2008
 * Hard to know who’s the real villain of this doomed canoe trip - ...on the Darwin disappearance case - 27th July 2008
 * Trust me, Trevor, Dibley doesn’t really do black people - Television is run by white, middle-class men (in the main) who have bought into the very worst kind of multicultural tokenism - 20th july 2008
 * Lillian, the marriage registrar who's wedded to bigotry - Civil ceremonies for gays and straights are meant to be the secular alternative to a church do, so let's keep God out of it - 13th July 2008
 * They're dropping like flies around Boris - and it's his fault - The new mayor of London is in a jam and haemorrhaging senior staff - 6th July 2008
 * Parents kidding themselves over child protection -Anyone who wants to work in children’s TV must be a bit suspect, not quite right - 29th June 2008
 *  'No' vote was down to meddling Mandy - Peter Mandelson would not know a principle if it accosted him in a nightclub wearing a G-string - 22nd June 2008
 * If that constitution returns, Gordon, we want a vote - The Lisbon treaty will re-emerge quite soon, camouflaged with a false beard and a moustache - 15th June 2008
 * Hillary, they just don’t like you - It's not race or age or gender. It's simply that American voters have turned from the Clinton past to new hope in Obama - 8th June 2008
 * Before you damn us all, Mrs Climbié, I’ve a few questions too - 1st June 2008



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 * Football too selfish to learn from Olympic lesson in humility - Never mind this Olympics business — the football season is only a couple of weeks away. I bet you can’t wait - 29th May
 * Media peddling the same old rubbish about the Tour - It's been a long and remarkable journey, this Tour de France, hasn’t it? - 22nd July
 * Robin acts like a right banker - The striker has a cheek to dismiss the business model of the only sane club in the cash-crazed Premier League - 8th July
 * All hail misery, the pundit’s pal - By combining authority and insight with despair, the Beeb has won hands down - 1st July
 * Tale of the tape won’t stop human error deciding results - Which sin of omission was the greater in Ukraine’s ghost goal against England — the missed yard or the missed inch? - 24th June
 * There’s nothing like having the last laugh in a comedy of errors - Well, that was a bit more like it, don’t you think? The sort of football match with which we are all warmly familiar, and thoroughly enjoy - 17th June
 * Honest Barton’s uglier side is just what Arsenal need - There's one thing I want to make absolutely clear, and about which I’m in agreement with Gary and Alan and Alan: the disgraceful behaviour of Joey Barton - 20th May
 * The £90m crunch - West Ham must forget fineries when they tackle Blackpool’s journeymen next weekend in the most lucrative match of the season - 13th May
 * Hail Chelsea and the world’s most expensive Subbuteo - Premier League crowds have been falling this season. This is despite the fact that there has been a greater than usual number of games that are supposedly crucia - 6th May

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 * Journalists will be the next target of public anger, and rightly so - Rod Liddle takes issue with his friend and former colleague, Andrew Gilligan, over his work for PressTV, the propaganda channel run by the Iranian government. How can such work be compatible with the journalistic ethos for which Gilligan has previously been commended? - 8th July 2009
 * Labour’s U-turn on social housing for non-immigrants is welcome but too late - Rod Liddle says that metropolitan liberal ideology is too deeply ingrained in local councils, social services and the judiciary to be overturned by one panic measure driven by Labour’s sudden fear of the BNP - 1st July 2009
 * Sarkozy’s burqa ban panders to racism, not feminism - Rod Liddle says that the French President may be right about Islam’s ideological content but that his proposal is shockingly illiberal and wrong-headed - 24th June 2009
 * I have come up with a way of disrupting all these mad employment tribunals - Rod Liddle says the case of Fata Lemes — a Muslim woman who claimed her dignity had been ‘violated’ by the dress she had to wear in a cocktail bar — is sadly typical of a crazy institutional structure that kowtows to every conceivable outraged sensibility - 17th June 2009
 * If anything, this result understates the support for the BNP - Rod Liddle says that the far right party won two seats against the odds. Nick Griffin and Andrew Brons are simply colonising terrain vacated by the Westminster elite - 10th June 2009
 * If you want to see corruption, look at the party leaders’ response to the scandal - Rod Liddle says that, for all the claims made by Brown and Cameron to be taking deeply moral action, the pattern of retribution shows that they are saving their mates and throwing their enemies to the wolves - 3rd June 2009
 * There is something comforting about North Korea’s nuclear weapons - Rod Liddle takes issue with the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and otherdoom-mongers: Kim Jong-il’s nukes are quaintly amateurish - 27th May 2009
 * Even if the system’s to blame, no one forced MPs to milk it - Rod Liddle says that Sarah Teather, the righteous young Lib Dem MP who refused to claim for a second home, proves that it wasn’t mandatory for MPs to fleece us - 20th May 2009
 * Why won’t my employer pay me to look after my castle while I’m in London? - Rod Liddle wants to know why the taxpayer has to pay for Douglas Hogg’s moat and Phil Woolas’s groceries, but nobody will subsidise his own extravagant needs — and is offended by MPs’ attempts to posture as the victims of an impersonal ‘system’ - 13th May 2009
 * ‘Solution Focused Therapy’ is only the worst of the delusions in the Baby P case - Rod Liddle says that the insane therapeutic methods used by Haringey Social Services typify the ideological determination of these ‘experts’ to accentuate the ‘positive’ and ignore social reality - 6th May 2009
 * It is child-rearing, not sexism, that explains the pay gap between men and women - Rod Liddle says that Harriet Harman’s notion of ‘structural pay discrimination’ is nonsense. It is women’s decision to have children that disrupts wage equality - 29th April 2009
 * J.G. Ballard was a man of the Right — not that the Right really wanted him - Rod Liddle says that the great writer, who died this week, always espoused the pessimism about the human condition that is the mark of a true conservative. He even wanted American missiles stationed in his garden - 22nd April 2009
 * Stop being sanctimonious about the McBride emails. Make your own minds up - Rod Liddle says that the internet is an anarchic expression of democracy, and should be treated as such. The same applies to emails sent between friends. Read them and use your common sense - 15th April 2009
 * The C of E has forgotten its purpose. Why, exactly, does it exist? - Rod Liddle offers an Easter message to the leaders of the Church, who have ditched its traditions and reduced it to a sort of superannuated ad-hoc branch of social services. It has lost all sense of mission and direction. Whatever happened to muscular Christianity? - 7th April 2009
 * The real scandal is that we always, always end up paying - The Jacqui Smith case and the grotesque sight of her husband apologising for watching porn films at the taxpayer’s expense are just the latest symptoms of a well-advanced political disease, says Rod Liddle. They take the voters for a bunch of mugs - 1st April 2009
 * The response to Jade’s death reminded me how puzzled I was by Diana mania - What do those who mourn Jade Goody think they are mourning, asks Rod Liddle. Do they not have their own dead to bury, to grieve over, to remember? - 25th March 2009
 * The smoking ban was always going to be the thin end of the wedge - Rod Liddle is appalled by Sir Liam Donaldson’s deployment of statistics in the hope of making it harder to have a drink. A surrealist would struggle to keep up with such campaigns against our human pleasures - 18th March 2009
 * Julie and Jonathan Myerson personify the worst generation in history - This family’s very public angst is all about making cash, says Rod Liddle. And the parents were not showing ‘tough love’ when they kicked out their son, but washing their hands of a problem - 11th March 2009
 * Thirteen, Alfie? I’d almost given up on sex by the age of 13 - Rod Liddle recalls his own childhood fumblings and says that the case of Alfie Patten proves nothing much has changed. If Britain is ‘broken’, it always was - 25th February 2009
 * If we are going to ban nasty foreigners, can we at least be consistent about it? - Rod Liddle parodies the nonsense that is the government’s approach to foreign visitors with unpleasant messages. It makes no sense to ban a critic of Islam but let in every homophobe with a passport - 18th February 2009
 * Jade Goody reminds us how arbitrary is success and how close to death we are - The reality TV überchav remained in the public eye because of her unerring ability to court catastrophe, says Rod Liddle — and the television-friendly speed at which her grotesque rise and demise have taken place - 11th February 2009
 * Why would the English working class consider voting Labour again? - Rod Liddle, a former glue factory worker, says that wildcat strikes have tapped a deep grievance: the anger of the English working class that it has been forgotten. These workers have been betrayed by the very party that was set up to protect and represent them - 4th February 2009
 * The BBC was absolutely right about the unbalanced Gaza charity ad - The Corporation has performed admirably during the conflict, says Rod Liddle. It is to Mark Thompson’s credit that he did not cave in to pressure on all sides to air the charity appeal - 28th January 2009
 * The BBC can’t help loving Obama, just as it can’t help encouraging recession - Rod Liddle says that television news is intrinsically biased: it transforms what it reports. In the case of the economy, ministers are right to counteract this with a dose of optimism - 21st January 2009
 * If fat people can’t adopt, who’s to say that drinkers or blacks won’t be next? - Rod Liddle says that the discrimination against overweight applicants wishing to adopt is only the latest vindictive witch hunt by bureaucrats and social workers against a minority. It is no more sensible than targeting an ethnic group or a social class - 14th January 2009
 * Onward Christian Zionists - Rod Liddle on the crazed, quasi-fascist evangelicals in Britain and America who believe war in Gaza heralds the Second Coming of Christ - 7th January 2009
 * Come with me to Santa’s grotto to discover the state we’re in - Rod Liddle offers a festive tour of the world at Christmas 2008: irrational fear, ignorance, stupidity, vexatious litigation, a foolish longing to abolish ‘risk’, and Christmas parties that, we are warned, have ‘absolutely nothing to do with Jesus’ - 15th December 2008
 * The law applies to Damian Green, too - Rod Liddle is reluctant to join the journalistic herd in its unqualified outrage at the Tory MP’s arrest. But it is certainly time to put the police under the microscope - 3rd December 2008
 * Incompetence is fine: but being offensive is sure to get you sacked - Rod Liddle says that something has gone wrong when 15 South Lanarkshire social workers are sacked over a dodgy Gary Glitter joke while none of their counterparts in Haringey has even been reprimanded over the ‘Baby P’ case - 26th November 2008
 * I loved Oliver Stone’s Bush film — and I know why the critics hated it - The movie W. did not provide the crude anti-Bush agitprop that the reviewers craved, says Rod Liddle. This was precisely its strength: we need to get inside the minds even of those we most deplore - 19th November 2008
 * Barack Obama really black? Actually, I’m not so sure'' - Rod Liddle, who wanted the Democrat to win, says the racial dimension to this presidential election was never straightforward, and probably favoured Obama rather than McCain - 5th November 2008
 * real lesson is: the public don’t like Jonathan Ross or Russell Brand'' - the row over their radio ‘prank’ has exposed the fact that these two smug, overpaid performers aren’t really that popular. There are no fans to defend them - 29th October 2008
 * Harman calls a ‘distraction’, the rest of us call debate'' - the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill, its hopeless fudge of secular and religious positions, and the cynical suppression of all attempts to raise the issue of abortion - 22nd October 2008
 * Cole deserved to be booed for all that he personifies'' - the magnificently horrid England defender exemplifies the greed, lack of respect for the fans and whining self-regard that is ruining football - 15th October 2008
 * Come Dancing is not the BBC’s core broadcasting'' - 8th October 2008
 * has the word ‘grandmother’ been banned by the Guardian?'' - the extraordinary list of mostly harmless words and phrases that are now considered inappropriate by one of our leading national newspapers - 1st October 2008
 * Miliband Becomes PM, I’ll Join The Right-Wing Coup To Topple Him'' - 24th September 2008
 * Behaviour Reminds Me Of The Blind Football At The Paralympics'' - The party’s MPs are fatally conflicted over Gordon Brown’s leadership. Their craven conduct reflects the awkward fact that they overwhelminglychose him in the first place - 17th September 2008
 * We Ever Faced An Enemy More Stupid Than Muslim Terrorists?'' - These narcissistic adolescent halfwits should not fill us with fear. The aircraft plot trial showed yet again that those who wish to murder us with fizzy pop and peroxide are a bunch of cowards - 10th September 2008
 * possessed McCain to take a punt on Palin?'' - the appointment of an inexperienced, gun-toting formerbeauty queen as his running mate may well be John McCain’s undoing - 3rd September 2008
 * Obsession With Paedophilia Is More Dangerous Than Gary Glitter’s Return'' - 27th August 2008
 * Jade’s Cancer, What Next? ‘I’m A Tumour, Get Me Out Of Here’?'' - the stunningly tasteless announcement of Jade Goody’s cervical cancer on Indian Big Brother marks a new low. But that won’t stop TV bosses saying it is a public service - 20th August 2008
 * A Footballer To Sue For ‘Negligence’ Is Like A Climber Suing A Mountain'' - The case of Ben Collett, the footballer awarded £4.5 million for a tackle that ended his career, bodes ill for the game - 13th August 2008
 * These Green Taxes And Rules Are Just Witless Nods To Fashion'' - 6th August 2008
 * All local government should be abolished - It doesn’t matter who’s in charge, says Rod Liddle. Once elected, a localcouncil automatically becomes self-important and incompetent - 23rd July 2008
 * If the liberal press is to believed, nobody has ever been stabbed - ever - Rod Liddle imagines the hoodie at home, allegedly innocent of any wicked intent, arming himself with a Stanley knife only because of the supposed alarmism of the right-wing media - 16th July 2008
 * Shouting abuse at fast people is not just fun. It's socially useful - Antisocial behaviour needs to be stigmatised, not treated as an illness to be cured - 9th July 2008
 * How to get stabbed: you, too, can be knifed in a public place - ...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 - 2nd July 2008

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 * Liddle the 'liberal fundamentalist' with a scandalous cuttings file - The columnist: Rod Liddle defines himself as a "liberal fundamentalist" and he is never far from controversy, Ian Burrell, The Independent, 18th November 2011
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