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1960–2026 England
Roderick Edwin Liddle (1 April 1960 – 2 August 2026) was an English journalist, and an associate editor of The Spectator. He also wrote for The Sunday Times and The Sun, among other publications.
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My own view is that there is not nearly enough Islamophobia within the Tory party.
From Romford to Ruislip a myriad show Of cultural diversity — so mind how you go.
I am not saying that we should do this, of course – it would be a horrible, psychopathic thing to do. I am merely hypothesising, in a slightly wistful kinda way.
The Home Secretary, Priti Patel, who is 5ft 6in tall, has been accused of using bullying behaviour with regard to her civil servants. Nowhere near enough bullying behaviour in my book.
I'm so furious and upset about it [...] If I'd had enough spine I would have said no to the caution. They couldn't have charged me.
But for sure, what Mr Forrest did was wrong. I suspect — and it is only a guess — that thousands of teachers up and down the land conduct sexual relationships with their older charges and that in most cases no harm comes of it.
I went a year or so back. F***ing outrageous that you can't smoke in Auschwitz. I had to sneak round the back of the gas chambers for a crafty snout.
Albanian gangsters with rice flails and Uzis, Ukrainian pimps with high-cheekboned floozies, Jamaicans with handguns, Somalis with knives — just some of the people enriching our lives. ...
No matter how vile we may consider the sexual predilections of paedophiles, we should not be in the business of putting people in prison for simply looking at things. The law should be above the blind, howling, rage of Rebekah Wade's moronic vigilantes. But there is the whiff of Salem about it all.
One of the few remaining unalloyed pleasures of motoring — running over cats — may soon become problematic if a petition passes 100,000 signatures. Campaigners are demanding that motorists should be forced to stop and report a "collision" with a cat, rather than just tooting the horn triumphantly and driving on. OK, I do not really think it is a good idea to run over cats if one can help it.