Rod Liddle

Not to be confused with former co-chair of the National Congress of Australia's First Peoples, Rod Little.

Rod Liddle
Born (1960-04-01) 1 April 1960 (age 64)
Sidcup, Kent, England
EducationPrior Pursglove College
Alma materLondon School of Economics
Occupation(s)Journalist, broadcaster
Political partyLabour (until 2016)[1][2][3]
SDP (2019–present)[4]
Spouses
  • Rachel Royce
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    (m. 2004; div. 2007)​
  • Alicia Monckton
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    (m. 2008)​
Children3

Rod Liddle (born 1 April 1960) is an English journalist,[5] and an associate editor of The Spectator. He was an editor of BBC Radio 4's Today programme. His published works include Too Beautiful for You (2003), Love Will Destroy Everything (2007), The Best of Liddle Britain (co-author, 2007) and the semi-autobiographical Selfish Whining Monkeys (2014). He has presented television programmes, including The New Fundamentalists, The Trouble with Atheism, and Immigration Is A Time Bomb.

Liddle began his career at the South Wales Echo, then worked for the Labour Party, and later joined the BBC. He became editor of Today in 1998, resigning in 2002 after his employers objected to one of his articles in The Guardian. He currently writes for The Sunday Times, The Spectator and The Sun, among other publications.

  1. ^ Liddle, Rod (26 September 2010). "So some people actually voted for Abbott?". The Spectator. Archived from the original on 16 June 2013. Retrieved 14 October 2012.
  2. ^ Liddle, Rod (18 April 2015). "Call me insane, but I'm voting Labour". The Spectator.
  3. ^ Oppenheim, Maya (19 May 2016). "Rod Liddle suspended from Labour party for describing 'antisemitism as visceral for many Muslims'". The Independent. Retrieved 19 May 2016.
  4. ^ Liddle, Rod (14 March 2019). "Why I've joined the SDP (and why you should, too)". The Spectator. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  5. ^ Liddle, Rod (7 January 2023). "Help me, I'm Scottish". The Spectator. Retrieved 7 January 2023.