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

Woolwich street attack

The words ‘terrorist attack’ only dignify the barbarism

23 May 2013 10:57

I was slightly puzzled by the early media reports of the appalling murder in Woolwich and particularly the wrangling over whether or not this could be called ‘a terrorist attack’.… Continue reading

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David Cameron once described himself as a 'man with a plan'. He needs to give that impression now as his party chooses turmoil on Europe once again. Picture: Getty

Swivel-eyed loons are a feature of British democracy

21 May 2013 14:04

I’d just like to point out, having been a journalist for many years and having met these people, and also having been a member of the Labour Party for more… Continue reading

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Krista Siegfrids: purveyor of 'post ironic nutjob lesbo pop'

Eurovision was as hilarious as ever

20 May 2013 9:51

Only in The Guardian could Britain’s humorous disdain for the Eurovision Song Contest be linked to the rise of UKIP and the decline of the British Empire: ‘I think Eurovision-bashing… Continue reading

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The Search Continues For Missing Schoolgirl Tia Sharp

The tragedy of trusting Stuart Hazell with Tia Sharp

14 May 2013 10:57

The Tia Sharp case is yet another harrowing untermensch saga. The man accused of the little girl’s murder, Stuart Hazell, has now changed his plea to guilty. Of course, it… Continue reading

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Daniel Hannan is dead right about ministers coming to their senses after the event. (ANDREW YATES/AFP/Getty Images)

Dan Hannan’s spot on, again

10 May 2013 9:29

Very good piece from Dan Hannan in yesterday’s The Daily Telegraph. The gist of it being that politicians admit to Eurosceptical tendencies only once they have left office (and therefore,… Continue reading

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New born babies. What to call them? (LOUISA GOULIAMAKI/AFP/Getty Images)

It’s all in a name

7 May 2013 15:37

Having a baby and stuck for a choice of name? Let the eminently sensible and well-adjusted people of New Zealand help you out. Their government has just released a list… Continue reading

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Starkey’s right: his fellow Question Time panellists don’t know the meaning of ‘struggle’

3 May 2013 13:23

Great stuff from David Starkey on BBC Question Time last night, hammering away at Harriet Harman, David Dimbleby, Victoria Coren and Shirley Williams for having attained their current positions in… Continue reading

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Ken Clarke

Ken Clarke: decent chap, but wrong about everything

29 April 2013 13:29

Kenneth Clarke has always seemed, to me, a decent sort. By far the most likeable and least lordly and arrogant of those Euro-wanking wets who plagued Thatcher and, later, Major.… Continue reading

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Investigation In Jimmy Savile Allegations Continues

The Wright Way

27 April 2013 11:14

Continuing the domestic bliss/ tv theme, one programme I have not watched so far is The Wright Way. This is a situation comedy about somebody called Wright, as you might… Continue reading

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The Family at Home

Scenes of domestic bliss, chez Liddle

25 April 2013 10:57

I was sitting on the stoop with a cigarette after dinner while my wife browsed the television channels to see if there was anything we might want to watch. Eventually… Continue reading

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jihadi

The moronic inferno, pt. 1,478

23 April 2013 9:36

Is it the stupidity of Americans, or the stupidity of people who use social networking sites, that is responsible for the following letter, sent shortly after the Boston bombers had… Continue reading

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Can you tell what it is yet? An accusation - not a charge.

Rolf Harris: accused, but not charged.

21 April 2013 14:13

I always thought there was something a little bit sinister about that Jake The Peg character. With what he refers to as his ‘extra leg’, m’lud. And then, ladies and… Continue reading

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An undated photograph, released by North Korean propaganda authorities, of the young Kim addressing soldiers. (KCNA VIA KNS/AFP/Getty Images)

The LSE’s anger about BBC Panorama sounds synthetic and sententious

16 April 2013 18:12

If I were to make a list of the things I thought the BBC should be doing, then a report from inside North Korea would come right at the top.… Continue reading

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A rally in support of the miners during the 1984 strike. (Michael Fresco/Express/Getty Images)

Adolescent metro liberals dance on Thatcher’s grave while her real enemies are respectful

13 April 2013 10:49

I was up in Mansfield on Thursday, interviewing retired miners for a film on the good old days of 1985, UDM v NUM and so on. The miners who stayed… Continue reading

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Rescue teams and security forces inspect the scene of a deadly car bomb explosion which rocked central Damascus on April 8, 2013. (LOUAI BESHARA/AFP/Getty Images)

Syrian rebels pledge allegiance to al-Qaeda, but promise to behave

11 April 2013 8:49

This, from the BBC – just in case any further evidence were needed. ‘The leader of the al-Nusra Front, a jihadist group fighting in Syria, has pledged allegiance to the… Continue reading

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VERY FRAIL OLD LADY DIES

9 April 2013 12:00

-       Full story pages 1-96. You turn if you want to …………………… handbag …………….. polarising …………. didn’t like the IRA …………………….. was sad that her husband died …………….. not keen… Continue reading

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The taxpayer needs to cut his losses on Baroness Ashton's £400,000 retirement salary. Photo: Getty Images.

Has the taxpayer received bang for buck from Baroness Ashton?

7 April 2013 21:57

A great deal of fuss is being made about Baroness Ashton’s retirement salary. She leaves her ludicrous post as High Representative for Foreign Affairs at the European Union next year… Continue reading

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The Queen inspects the elite of Eton College, during her Diamond Jubillee celebrations.

The workers united will never be defeated…

4 April 2013 15:16

There’s a BBC website where you can find out what class you are, according to new criteria drawn up by some bloke at the LSE and a babe from Manchester… Continue reading

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The Archbishop Of Canterbury Justin Welby's First Easter Sunday In Office

Live from Golgotha

31 March 2013 18:04

A rather charming and typically self-deprecating Easter sermon from Archbishop Justin at Canterbury Cathedral; I’m beginning to like him. His subject was the inevitability of disillusion with things like governments… Continue reading

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Reports of the demise of snow in Britain have been exaggerated. (PETER MUHLY/AFP/Getty Images)

What’s happening? Snow was ‘disappearing from our lives’ in 2000

27 March 2013 7:30

Enormous thanks to OGT for alerting us all to the brilliant article from the Independent – published on Monday March 20th, 2000. Here’s the first bit of it: ‘Britain’s winter… Continue reading

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