The most striking thing about Rod Liddle when he arrived at the BBC as a trainee producer was how different he was to the corporation norm. Thin as a rake and with artfully-chaotic hair, he looked like an expelled member of a punk rock band. He was the only man on the Today programme to

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…

The most striking thing about Rod Liddle when he arrived at the BBC as a trainee producer was how different he was to the corporation norm. Thin as a rake and with…

Convention dictates that one should never speak ill of the dead, but imagine telling that to my former friend Rod Liddle.