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

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…

The best word for my feelings about Rod Liddle’s death is one that Rod was occasionally heard to use himself. Fuck. Rod was my editor at the Today programme, the most exciting…

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

There is a reason the death of Rod Liddle has provoked such a swirling tide of grief among his millions of followers, including readers of this magazine, and that is that in the…