Rod Liddle, a columnist and associate editor at The Spectator, has died at 66. You can read some extracts from some of our favourite columns of his below. Meeting Abu Hamza He is, you have to say, anti-democratic, democracies being callow, man-made things, and, as a final irony, he doesn’t even agree with the concept

His children paid tribute to their father who they say was their guide 'on how to live an extraordinary life'.

Liddle died at the James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough

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

Tributes paid across industry to provocative journalist who died after short illness