We meet seven years to the day since he resigned in 2002, after writing an article deemed a breech of. He then mentioned one of the most ethnically diverse boroughs in the country: Tower Hamlets, for example., Mr Liddles language was branded deeply insulting, with Labour Co-Operative MP Anna Turley tweeting: Enough [The Sunday Times]. Upon receiving the news that Boris Johnson had pulled out of the Conservative leadership contest, Ms Croxall cackled and commented: Am I allowed to be gleeful? I really don't even want to remind myself what his views on rape are but his essential argument is that Harman has ignored the statistics that show a rise in the number of women making unfounded allegations of rape. he former Today editor turned Sunday Times columnist Rod Liddle greets me with the words: "I have headlice. "I think the first reaction would have been that it was reactionary. Or is it the brothel? 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Liddle began his career at the South Wales Echo, then worked for the Labour Party, and later joined the BBC. Finally, Rachel Cooke wrote in the Observer last weekend that she found the piece so disgusting that she would like to do "something really unpleasant" to Liddle. "And the only politicians who were banging on about this at the time, it pains me to say, were the British National Party." In the five years that Rod was editor, the Today programme was extraordinarily successful. "That's for you to judge," I reply. And I then said there's a greater division in races than between races. "No, I'm waiting for someone else." Please refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged in, Politicians inborough describecomments 'racist', 'sick' and 'poisonous', Find your bookmarks in your Independent Premium section, under my profile. "He could find nothing in my book to support his claims of bigotry. Latest News. [50] The decision that The Spectator was to be prosecuted by the CPS for breaching reporting restrictions was announced on 9 May 2012, with a court hearing scheduled for 7 June, although Liddle as the author was not himself liable for prosecution. "This is a desperate attempt by a desperate man in need of self-publicity, regardless of the consequences and potential for inciting violence in our society. "It was the most intellectually challenging thing I've done, but I also miss working with a team. "Go on then." He mentions a journalist he had a spat with about it, but struggles to remember his name. Beyond belief in a so called liberal newspaper. ", Would he be attracted to Ukip? The Sudden Death Epidemic By TerraZetzz -Sunday, 26 February 2023, 23:26 PM Operation Disclosure | By David Lifschultz, Contributing Writer Submitted on February 26, 2022 THE SUDDEN DEATH EPIDEMIC THE VACCINE: TUCKER CARLSON TODAY This is an extraordinary interview by Tucker Carlson with Edward Dowd who is an expert statistical analyst from Wall Street who did well going "I got it wrong on a number of counts. Just look at those stats. [80] However, Fintan O'Toole writing for The Guardian said the book was "as untroubled by facts as by logic". Recursively sort the rest of the list, then insert the one left-over item where it belongs in the list, like adding a card to the hand you've already sorted in a card game, or putting a book away in a sorted bookshelf. Still I have atendency to speak before I have made " he smiles and considers his words " a long and considered assessment of the arguments on each side. Donald Trump is back in the lead in the opinion polls. "My favourite politician, Harriet Harman, has come up with an ingenious plan, as is entirely typical of her. He doesn't want to say anything about the caution for assault in 2005. "I think you'd do the same," he continued, "with most of the babes who were once, or are now, on the Government front bench.". Registered in England No. The article also criticised the Labour MP Rosie Duffield's recent speech about her experience of trying to exit an abusive relationship; Duffield described the article as "racist and misogynistic".[75]. Rod Liddle is associate editor of The Spectator. A Durham University college chief lambasted students as "pathetic" for staging a walk out when Rod Liddle was invited to speak at a formal dinner. While working for Today, Liddle also wrote a column for The Guardian. But then he got into another spot of bother. Go Rod. The Sunday Times. Anjem and I fervently agree on one important issue, though, wrote Mr Liddle. 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"You know, the one who's married to the Labour MP, the rather foxy bitch ", We're back in his cab, heading towards the station where he'll get a train back to Kent. 14 May 2016. Claude and his mules rattled into Frankfort just as the calliope went screaming down Main street at the head of the circus parade. "The sad answer is that, to a degree, I connived. Why not? So much so that he named his daughter, aged four, Emmeline - after one Ms Pankhurst: "And I hope she will be a crusader like [Marxist revolutionary] Rosa Luxemburg!". But it's very difficult to say it creates another problem without cunts like you saying you want them to move back into the home. He is idealistic. Police respond to reporters of a swan being removed from the harbour by a drunk male before it being involved in a collision on Mutley Plain. We have noticed that there is an issue with your subscription billing details. His new book is noexception and has led to, er, mixed reviews and accusations ofbigotry. "[30], In November 2011, an article by Liddle for The Spectator suggested the trial of two men accused (and later convicted) of murdering Stephen Lawrence would not be fair. So why, I ask, did he also write recently that "On average, fewer women wish to commit themselves totally to work than do men"? The former editor of BBC Radio 4s Today programme has been labelled sick, poisonous and racist by politicians in the borough for his comments. Why does it pain you? Liddle wanted us to meet in Middlesbrough, where he went to school, but time is tight so we settle for a pub in Soho. I read your stuff, I don't see you seethe very often," he shouts. I looked like I had German measles. [12] Liddle also courted controversy discussing the public and police's response to child pornography and highlighted the Pete Townshend case as a means to highlight problems with enforcing the law. I absolutely condemn Rod Liddles reprehensible remarks in his recent column in the Sunday Times. In The Trouble with Atheism, Liddle argued that atheists can be as dogmatic and intolerant as the adherents of religion. Yes, of course, he says welcomingly. We meet seven years to the day since he resigned in 2002, after writing an article deemed a breech of impartiality by the BBC. Liddle said, "History has shown us that it's not religion that's the problem, but any system of thought that insists that one group of people are inviolably in the right, whereas the others are in the wrong and must somehow be punished. We condemn the shocking choice of language regarding Tower Hamlets in Rod Liddles latest Sunday Times column. As for The Slapper she's welcome to him". Teachers hold placards as they shout slogans while taking part in a protest organised in Manchester as part of a national strike day. | The Spectator Australia. "It was aSpectator piece. On Sunday 24 May an article by journalist, Rod Liddle was published in the Sunday Times that may encourage members of the public to engage in activity which jeopardises the safety of others. It transpired that he had cut short his honeymoon with Royce so that he could be with Monckton. Admitting to having paid little attention to Liddle's journalism, Will Self, in his review for The Guardian wrote: "it's so much more authoritative to hear a man condemned out of his own mouth over 200-plus pages than it is to assay him on the basis of newspaper columns, which, by and large, favour polarised views tendentiously expressed." ", Have you changed since then? "Just lime and soda please, mate." 25 Feb/23. I try not to punch him. ROD LIDDLE Here's a prospect to terrify unionists a Scottish leader with Christian values Rod Liddle Sunday February 19 2023, 12.01am, The Sunday Times Should Christians be allowed. The comments included jokes about not being able to smoke at Auschwitz, comments that Crimewatch was proof that blacks have entire TV programmes to themselves and that someone should kick a woman that he did not agree with in the c***. At first he was defiant. "It is disgraceful that the Sunday Times printed Liddles terrifying comments. [84][85], On 5 May 2005, he was arrested for common assault against Monckton, who was 20 weeks pregnant at the time. This is why he gets so riled when the commentariat label him rightwing. Tell Mama, a group which measures anti-Muslim incidents in the UK, accused him of Islamophobia. That, she said, would underplay the everyday impact of racist narratives and ignore some of the key factors of hate crime. I thought about my mates at Millwall Online, God I respect them so much more than these other people, these ghastly fucking people. The article was published by journalist Rod Liddle in the Sunday Times on September 26 under the headline: "So Trump was right: the election was rigged. 'Harriet Harman would you?' "I use it too often. Well-written though," he says admiringly. "Did you see the review in the Mail on Sunday? [42] The stories about Liddle's posts on Millwall Online apparently further reduced the likelihood of his being offered the job. Mr Liddle offered this apology at the time: To avoid the ludicrous phrase men of Muslim appearance I originally used the word black to describe the appearance of the knifemen. Hundreds of thousands of people live and work in the borough, which has suffered from terrorist attacks such as the IRA bombing of Canary Wharf in 1996 and the Brick Lane nail bomb attack in 1999 carried out by a Neo-Nazi. The article included the subheading, 'My own view is that there is not nearly enough Islamophobia within the Tory party'. "[78], In July 2019 Liddle published The Great Betrayal, a book about Brexit. Please. From Little Britain's Vicky Pollard to the demonization of Jade Goody, media and politicians alike dismiss as feckless, . [17] He said later that when he was editor he was ordered by BBC management to sack Frederick Forsyth from the show, and speculated that it was because of Forsyth's rightwing political views. What am I meant to do, not say it? Imagine Citizen Smith in middle age, gone slightly to seed, a little disillusioned with the way things have turned out, and you could have Liddle. ", This is extraordinary. Sort of. But he is boringly obsessed by Harman's "failure to understand statistics" - largely over equality in the workplace and rape convictions ("enormous deceit over rape"). In April 2007, Liddle presented a two-hour-long theological documentary called The Bible Revolution where he looked back in history to William Tyndale's translation of the Bible in English and the effect this had upon the English language. Each email has a link to unsubscribe. 2 Dec 2022 The Times & The Sunday Times Best Places to Stay. So eeeeuw. Despite his serious reservations about Liddle's writing, Self concludes: "The peculiar thing is that I can't find it in my heart of hearts to dislike the man, I think there's good in him and that he can change his bilious complexion. You'll observe Rod Liddle would be too old to serve in such a war. [citation needed]. Rod Liddle, former editor of BBC Radio 4's Today programme, is an adept and knowledgeable after dinner speaker and has gained a reputation for his talent and passion. "No. You know, I'm clubbable. He has said that he's often described as looking like "a fat, middle-aged lesbian", though he's looking rather svelte today. The appalling column by Rod Liddle in @TheSundayTimes has rightly been widely condemned. "My girlfriend who was in the SWP said: 'You're a rightwing bastard at heart, aren't you?' Whats particularly deplorable is how Rod Liddle has been continuously allowed to write his racist bile without any censoring. Actually, I dont really mind if they dont leave the country, so long as they blow themselves up somewhere a decent distance from where the rest of us live. I have spent the morning trying to draw a cartoon of a black person without it being racist. He insists they were taken out of context. [81], Liddle met Rachel Royce, a television presenter, at the BBC in 1993, and the couple soon became romantically involved. While musing generally on the difference between the sexes, he adds: "Men's behaviour is appalling. [37], In October 2010, Liddle called for the abolition of the Welsh language TV channel S4C as a result of the 2010 Comprehensive Spending Review. Rod Liddle, 61, is associate editor of The Spectator magazine and writes columns for The Sunday Times and The Sun. Its bloody difficult, he wrote. He currently writes for The Sunday Times, The Spectator and The Sun, among other publications. Music Review God, it's slight: Lindsey Buckingham's new album reviewed You yearn for a little grit in these pallid oyster By Rod Liddle Music Review Donda is repetitive, spiritless, god-bothering music On this second episode of our new show DEPROGRAMMED, hosts Rollo Pinhol, Poppy Coburn and Harrison Pitt discuss: * An ancient law used to convict Britain's criminal gang members is now being mo. And He is a feminist. But then he got into another spot of bother. [40], The Guardian reported on 8 January 2010 that the expected purchase of The Independent by Alexander Lebedev, a Russian billionaire, would be followed by the appointment of Liddle as editor. @MayorJohnBiggs has called on the paper to issue a full apology. "The gap between myfamily and the poorest family in Middlesbrough was tiny, and the gap between my family and the London lot was just enormous. Writing in The New York Times, Pankaj Mishra described the book as "a handy digest of far-right clichs". 'I'm just joking, don't you understand?' [58] Liddle apologised. "[27] Rachel Cooke in The Observer nearly two months later recalled finding Liddle's piece "so disgusting I flushed violently all the way from my breastbone to my forehead when I first read it. Photograph: David Levene. It has got him into rather a lot of hot water. "[26] Tanya Gold asserted in The Guardian that Liddle had delivered a "tissue-thin polemic." He continued: The overwhelming majority of street crime, knife crime, gun crime, robbery and crimes of sexual violence in London is carried out by young men from the African-Caribbean community. "You can't say to me that it's solely down to discrimination. "I am more like I was when I was 16, except pessimistic. "[70], Liddle appeared on the BBC's Newsnight to discuss Brexit on 15 July 2019, debating anti-Brexit activist Tom Baldwin. A spokesman for the Sunday Times decline to comment, but it is thought that Liddle's job there is safe. Liddle subsequently argued, after Griffin was acquitted in February 2006 of two charges of inciting racial hatred, that the charges were "too ephemeral, too dependent upon the mindset and political disposition of the juror, and upon what is happening outside of the courtroom, on the streets."[23]. The Government's move for an immediate review of whether poppers are harmful is right, but banning them will cause confusion and drive gay and bi men who use poppers to seek out illegal drug suppliers from April onwards, putting their health at serious risk. "I see in Harriet, maybe unfairly, a sort of totem for everything which has ripped the Labour Party away from its working-class roots. After reading Cooke's piece he did not sleep a wink, he says. I am trying to work out a mathematical formula to calculate how successful the Russian advances in Ukraine have been, using the number of inches you have to scroll down in your daily newspaper website to find coverage of the war. "Well, you're going to hear some racism then. "No. (So I will say this: he resembles an indignant old tramp. GOOD THING. - Listen to Anti-White Bigotry is Embedded in Britain and is the Last Permissible form of Racism by So what you're saying is. He admits, looking sheepish, that he would not actually tell Caroline Flint that she is as fit as a butcher's dog. I'm smiling, and it narks him. Rod Liddle has run off with something else. 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I didn't think how it would affect her. [9][10] His early career in journalism was with the South Wales Echo in Cardiff where he was a general news reporter and, for a time, the rock and pop writer. And who it might offend.". Ha-ha! Acesse o canal do YouTube. It's not surprising people think that, Isay you are a complicated mix. Now his purpose in life is "to write, to amuse, to say the things which people think but daren't say And - this will be laughed at - but I think the Left needs to be redefined.". "Yes, but I also say the move of women into the workforce is an unequivocally good thing. I feel disappointed that I am not pregnant. It is like being angry at cows tempting, but pointless. Before that he had considered himself middle-class (his father ended up as a tax inspector, his mother worked at the then DHSS). Sunday September 26 2021, 12.01am BST, The Sunday Times. In the final chapter, he apologises for all the negativity. Hahaha! Liddle was editor of the Radio 4 show from 1998 to 2002. Next came Tanya Gold in the Guardian: "We're back in the school yard. A bigot? [60][61], In December 2013 in a blog article for The Spectator website published shortly after Nelson Mandela died, Liddle wrote that the BBC coverage on his death was excessive. Mr. Wheeler was standing on the Farmer's Bank corner, towering a head . So can he really believe that he is not ridiculing a female politican by comparing her - however flatteringly - to a dog? ), He eventually reveals that his anti-Harman tirades have their roots in his own disappointments in life. In December 2009, on his Spectator blog, Liddle referred to two black music producers, Brandon Jolie and Kingsley Ogundele, who had plotted to kill Jolie's 15-year-old pregnant girlfriend, as "human filth" and said the incident was not an anomaly. Mr Fitzpatrick has also written directly to Martin Ivans, the editor of The Sunday Times, calling for an apology. He would just like to watch it on television r . Liddle was born in Sidcup, Kent, the son of a train driver. instantly on your tablet, phone or browser - no downloads needed. You can just leave and few people, save for your ex-wife, will think any the worse of you for it." We both think you should only say in print what you would say to someone's face. And most of all, he rants about the liberal elite he claims runs the country. "I'm surprised you're not seething about it. ", He then says "the patriarchal world is vile" and that he himself is a feminist. 2008, "The vast majority of women with very small children are, by their own admissions, useless at their jobs." In an apparently whimsical article, the 58-year-old said he agreed with Islamist extremist Anjem Choudary, who has recently been released from prison, that extremists should blow themselves up. There is the bit where you talk about your parents and say, "I don't possess their views about wogs, or at least not all of them." I'm not in favour of the free movement of labour and capital. "It's an issue which is very difficult to raise If you say, hang on a minute your figures are misleading then it appears that you are on the side of rapists " You're telling me. And it has been appalling in my case on occasion.". Join thought-provoking conversations, follow other Independent readers and see their replies. The documentary was criticised by David Hilborn of the Evangelical Alliance,[20] and by Rupert Kaye of the Association of Christian Teachers.[21]. We have 300,000 residents in Tower Hamlets and to suggest that Anjem Choudary should come here and blow himself up is hateful, he told The Independent. Liddle's ex-wife, Rachel Royce, 2008, "I would still like to do something really unpleasant to [Rod Liddle]." At points in our conversation I almost want to indulge Liddle. Previously, he worked for the Labour Party as a speech writer and researcher . Rod Liddle Sunday February 12 2023, 12.01am, The Sunday Times The purpose of an organisation called Prevent, you might think, would be to prevent stuff from happening. [..] I stopped taking Liddle seriously when he was cautioned for assaulting his then pregnant girlfriend in 2005." Apart from Caroline Flint, of course, who is "fit as a butcher's dog". I could have made a citizen's arrest under the Health and Safety Act. Absolutely furious. Liddle admitted the account was his but claimed some of the comments had been taken out of context and that others had been posted by people who had gained access to his account. Sign up for exclusive newsletters, comment on stories, enter competitions and attend events. I am surprised that the editor allowed a piece like this to be published into a reputable paper. "I'd possibly vote Liberal or Labour," he says, looking pained. Fraser Nelson, the magazine's editor, announced that the prosecution would not be contested,[51] and the magazine pleaded guilty at the hearing. The men, she says, can "jostle" for the position . I hope the Sunday Times reflects on whether they want to continue to be associated with this despicable man and his despicable views.. 9 Dec 2022 The Sunday Times Announces its Schools of the Year. For which, many thanks. Rod Liddle has been attacked for comments he posted on a Millwall . Our External Affairs Executive Director, Steve Brooks, respond to the comments that were made. "Harriet Harman," he says instantly. We have noticed that there is an issue with your subscription billing details. It is deeply insulting to Londoners and particularly those who lost loved ones in the Canary Wharf bombing in 1996, or have been affected by other violent acts, he said in a statement published on Twitter. 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