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Rod Liddle

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Party’s over / Has Reform peaked?

Murton is a rather frowsy former pit village in County Durham, about half a dozen miles down the A19 from Sunderland. Chip shops, tanning salons,...

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I do not wish for Reform’s retreat

An addendum to my piece in the mag this week, partly for clarification and partly to reinforce the point, for idiots, that Reform’s retreat isn’t...

12.03.2026 9

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Rod Liddle

Party’s over / Has Reform peaked?

Murton is a rather frowsy former pit village in County Durham, about half a dozen miles down the A19 from Sunderland. Chip shops, tanning salons,...

12.03.2026 10

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Rod Liddle

What is the point of an Anti-Muslim Hostility Tsar?

Derrida et al were right. The written English language (langue) can be vague and elliptical and the intended meaning not always assured. I wonder if...

09.03.2026 6

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Won’t someone please think of Dubai’s influencers?

Won’t someone please think of Dubai’s influencers?

The human spirit is incredibly resilient really. Even in the depth of our concern over the Israeli-American war against Iran, the worry about what...

08.03.2026 10

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Arsenal’s success is a victory for Brexit football

I notice Arsenal have gone seven points clear at the top of the Premier League table and are thus very likely to win the title – a victory, then,...

05.03.2026 10

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Ritz spirit / Won’t someone please think of Dubai’s influencers?

The human spirit is incredibly resilient really. Even in the depth of our concern over the Israeli-American war against Iran, the worry about what...

05.03.2026 10

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Have the Brits forgotten what a song actually is?

The Brits are always awful, so much so that they exist in a place beyond criticism, so obvious are the failings. Just the sight of the award winners...

02.03.2026 10

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Oh, Mandy / My night at the Baftas

Sometimes things work out much better than one could have imagined, as if God, looking down, had decided that for whatever reason, a favour should be...

26.02.2026 7

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Blue wave / Don’t underestimate the ‘stop Farage’ alliance

So Thursday came and Oxford went to the pollsAnd made its coward vote and the streets resoundedTo the triumphant cheers of the lost souls –The...

20.02.2026 40

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Grooming gangs / To understand pure stupidity, watch The News Agents

There have been numerous surveys over the years intended to prove that conservatives are more stupid than liberals and vice versa, so many that it is...

15.02.2026 60

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Grooming gangs / To understand pure stupidity, watch The News Agents

12.02.2026 10

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Old songs for an audience of elderly people: The Damned’s Not Like Everybody Else reviewed

12.02.2026 30

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I was right about Peter Mandelson

07.02.2026 40

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Oh, Mandy / I was right about Peter Mandelson

06.02.2026 30

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Oh, Mandy / I was right about Peter Mandelson

05.02.2026 40

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Curious omission / Why won’t the BBC use the word ‘Jews’?

29.01.2026 30

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Mystery solved / The true villains of our TV crime dramas? The creators

23.01.2026 70

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Mystery solved / The true villains of our TV crime dramas? The creators

22.01.2026 20

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Squeezed middle / The age of absolutism

15.01.2026 20

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Has Trump gone mad?

10.01.2026 20

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Doolally Donald / Has Trump gone mad?

08.01.2026 20

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Hypocrisy / David Walliams deserves to be cancelled

01.01.2026 30

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Hypocrisy / David Walliams deserves to be cancelled

01.01.2026 40

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Why did Robin Ince have to leave The Infinite Monkey Cage?

14.12.2025 10

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Turning point / The year wokery went into decline

We will remember 2025 as the year that a madness which had gripped us for a decade finally succumbed to that most irritating of things, reality –...

12.12.2025 20

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Healthy approach / Hands off my prostate

04.12.2025 10

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Agony Auntie / The obvious truth about BBC bias

28.11.2025 10

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Agony Auntie / The obvious truth about BBC bias

27.11.2025 10

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Office politics / It’s not Starmer’s fault that everyone loathes him

20.11.2025 10

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Office politics / It’s not Starmer’s fault that everyone loathes him

20.11.2025 10

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The Listener / There’s a lot to like in Rosalia’s new album

18.11.2025 7

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There’s a lot to like in Rosalia’s new album

13.11.2025 10

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