Rod Liddle

England

Contributor at The Sunday Times

Associate Editor at The Spectator

Journalist. Just honest.

Articles

Like Churchill, Starmer knows success abroad counts for nothing at home

4 days ago | thetimes.com | Rod Liddle
Anne Robinson proves we're right wing

4 days ago | thetimes.com | Rod Liddle
The Reformation is here

1 week ago | spectator.co.uk | Rod Liddle

These are dark and bewildering days for Britain’s community of Good People, the ones who – insulated from material discomfort through large incomes and in many cases large inheritances – believe that everything can be accomplished simply by being kind and, further, by wearing one’s kindness as a badge which on the surface proclaims gentility and compassion but which, not very far below, is a polite voice insisting: ‘I am considerably richer than you, which is why I have these beliefs.
The Reformation is here

1 week ago | spectator.com.au | Rod Liddle

These are dark and bewildering days for Britain’s community of Good People, the ones who – insulated from material discomfort through large incomes and in many cases large inheritances – believe that everything can be accomplished simply by being kind and, further, by wearing one’s kindness as a badge which on the surface proclaims gentility and compassion but which, not very far below, is a polite voice insisting: ‘I am considerably richer than you, which is why I have these beliefs.
The repetitiveness made me cry with boredom: Mark Pritchard and Thom Yorke’s Tall Tales reviewed

1 week ago | spectator.com.au | Rod Liddle

Grade: B+You are in the wrong hands here for what is a homage to this duo’s favourite electronic music. The only Radiohead album I like is the guitar-driven Pablo Honey (and I wasn’t terribly mad on that to be honest.) My inclination is to mark down the genre itself, for its wafting and beeping and farting portentousness, all the way back to Stockhausen.
An astonishingly good album from Black Country, New Road

1 week ago | thespectator.com | Rod Liddle

Grade: AIs the album title a kind of nod to Oasis? I can’t think of a band less like that grunting Manchester convocation, except in the fact that BCNR are one of the biggest bands around right now, as the Gallagher brothers were all those years ago. Vocalist (of a sort) Isaac Wood has left and with him has gone the occasional temptation to stray into stadium bombast, à la Arcade Fire.
My apology to Reform

1 week ago | spectator.com.au | Rod Liddle

I have read countless commentaries explaining why we shouldn’t take Reform’s victories last Thursday too seriously. They are all wrong. I have the distinct impression that these were the most significant election results for a good few decades. Up here in the north, everyone I know voted Reform. More importantly, when I used to ask people how they voted, they would beckon me to one side and, through a cupped hand, whisper ‘Reform’.
My apology to Reform

1 week ago | spectator.co.uk | Rod Liddle

Oxford, said Matthew Arnold, was “the home of lost causes and forsaken beliefs”. Now Cambridge is giving it a run for its money. Oxford’s chancellor election last year was widely billed as a two-horse race between the elder statesmen Lords Mandelson and Hague; the latter in the end won handily. They both had their hang-ups
Amanda Holden trying to get adulterers back together? Yes, really

1 week ago | thetimes.com | Rod Liddle
I pity trans athletes, who were hoodwinked by the dense and craven

1 week ago | thetimes.com | Rod Liddle