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I didn’t want to like Rod Liddle
One of the joys of being director of digital at The Spectator, back in 2015, was seeing the magazine proofs before they went to print. Rod Liddle’s column was the first thing I looked for, always the one I was most eager to read. He made me laugh every single time, something very few columnists
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Rod Liddle was one of the finest journalists of his generation
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…
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My debt to Rod Liddle
My father and I would often read his columns aloud to each other and laugh ourselves into fits. That was Rod’s sublime talent
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I could never dislike Rod – even when he threatened to punch me
I remember being in The Spectator’s offices on a Tuesday afternoon not long ago when I noticed a group of staffers clustered round a computer screen. One let out a guffaw of…
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To be a Spectator reader was to love Rod
Since becoming Spectator editor there was one observation I heard more often from readers than any other: ‘Rod is the first page I turn to every week.’ Whatever people’s politics,…
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I didn’t want to like Rod Liddle
One of the joys of being director of digital at The Spectator, back in 2015, was seeing the magazine proofs before they went to print. Rod Liddle’s column was the first thing I…