I only met Rod Liddle a few times, though at The Spectator and the Sunday Times I worked alongside him and to a large degree in his shadow. He was irascible and lugubrious and bloody funny, both in person and in print. Like a lot of bogeymen, in person he was a delight and nothing

Rod Liddle, The Spectator’s associate editor, has died at the age of 66. Rod, who was also a columnist for the Sunday Times and Sun, died at the James Cook University hospital in…

Rod Liddle’s children paid tribute to their father, who was their guide ‘on how to live an extraordinary life’