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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.

Seasonal Weather Returns To The UK

Met Office in crisis meeting as sun comes out

18 June 2013 9:00

The Met Office is apparently holding a ‘crisis meeting’ today to discuss why Britain’s weather refuses to behave itself these days. No sooner had the camp, pirouetting, forecasters told us… Continue reading

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An employee makes a sad faced Legoman. (MICHAL CIZEK/AFP/Getty Images)

Can you solve the Legomen puzzle?

17 June 2013 9:27

A scientific study has revealed that the faces of Lego characters are no longer so mindlessly happy as they once were. This is an important thing to know. ‘Put the… Continue reading

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EDL leader Tommy Robinson  at a protest in May 2013. Image: Getty

Hats off to Sarah Montague

11 June 2013 17:12

Well done to the BBC Today programme’s Sarah Montague for not screaming abuse at Tommy Robinson, the English Defence League leader, when she interviewed him this morning. It seems that… Continue reading

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Of course spooks snoop. More power to them

9 June 2013 9:28

Can I just share with you my satisfaction that the CIA has access to my emails and all the social media sites I visit from time to time? This has… Continue reading

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Turkish protesters confront riot police. (BULENT KILIC/AFP/Getty Images)

Turkey redux

8 June 2013 9:56

It must be boring for you too, returning to the same complaint, over and over again. Report on the BBC’s 10 O’Clock News about the trouble in Turkey. Not a… Continue reading

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Protestors clash with riot police near the office of Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.(GURCAN OZTURK/AFP/Getty Images)

Is it time to aid Turkey’s protestors?

3 June 2013 10:51

Is it now time for William Hague to send money, and possibly arms, to the rebels now participating in what we might call a Turkish Spring? There have been violent… Continue reading

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Who is the Mail on Sunday talking about?

2 June 2013 20:46

So, who is it then? Please speculate in the privacy of your own homes rather than within the comments section below, as our lawyers would – like the rest of… Continue reading

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Protesters wear badger masks at a rally in Bristol against the proposed cull. Picture: Getty

The madness of culling badgers

1 June 2013 18:11

Good luck to all the animal rights activists setting off this weekend to harass the members of the Game and Wildlife “Conservancy” Trust shooting blameless badgers. The cull, which could… Continue reading

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William Hague led this afternoon's Commons debate on Europe. Picture: Getty

Does William Hague know what he is doing with Syria?

31 May 2013 11:16

A week or so after the murder of a British soldier by two psychopathic savages in Woolwich, the Foreign Secretary William Hague is back pleading with our European partners to… Continue reading

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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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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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