Sunday Times and Sun columnist Rod Liddle dies aged 66
I once got into a Twitter spat with Rod Liddle during which he asked me if I'd ever read anything and I said I'd start with his obituary but I was lying. I will not be reading it, he isn't worth the time.
Julia Is Waving, Not Drowning23they say that living well is the best revenge but honestly even just living is also pretty good revenge the world is cleansed of one poisonous turd
Pete 🦆17Long shade is best shade
Stephanie Rains 🪼10This is how I find out he died! And yeah, won’t be reading any obituaries
Matt7This is the first, and now last, thing he wrote that I will ever read
Spielmadchen5Who? That’s the most polite thing I can say about a departed who apparently was a shit.
Grittybeard4Learning about this guy kinda by accident and whew holy hell I agree it isn't worth the time. Just someone to be glad is gone.
I will remember Rod Liddle for the fact that the lawyer who checked my book before publication had no issue with me writing that Liddle couldn’t be a teacher because he’d have had sex with the students. Why? Because Liddle wrote it in a national magazine.
Against my better judgment, I looked up his output in The Spectator to see what his most recent column had been. in the opening paragraphs before the paywall fade he fantasizes about violently murdering every single middle class middle aged liberal. Something for the eulogists to bear in mind
Elsie Yorks7Someone should confirm under Jenrick’s post about “unsayable truth” that he (Jenrick) is referring to the fact Liddle couldn’t be a teacher as he’d try to have sex with teenage girls.
MJ Quigley5It is quite damning for the british press to have continued to allow him to have a career after everything he wrote. Like multiple nonce defences, bigotry not even cloaked in the polite deniable form that dominated the press for most of his career. It is not shocking to see terfs come out eugolising
Kittie 🖤🦝4a disgusting pig - a loss to nobody but the quieter disgusting pigs who liked having someone to smirk & nod along with on the sly
TerriW3Interesting. I’m amazed at the women on the other site defending his writing
NevereverDave.bsky.social2It features in his wiki profile. Proud of it.
Sinan Kose110Some people might be wondering why this didn't immediately result in his career being terminated by the British press and, well, I'm afraid the answer isn't going to shock you.
Gift12Yeah, absolutely nailed on a fucking nonce.
Rob Freeman 🩷💜💙2In the UK, people definitely try and sue you for making true statements about them, and use very expensive lawyers, so you have to apologise and retract rather than bankrupt yourself proving it. But it also turns out… bsky.app/profile/brok...
Iain Alexander2To have once such gross and incriminating incident on one’s record ought to have been career- and reputation-ending; to have *also* assaulted your pregnant girlfriend *and* consistently been a vile racist is quite the trifecta, notwithstanding any number of other perfectly valid complaints
Rod liddle had a police caution for domestic violence against his then pregnant girlfriend. He once wrote in one of his columns that he could never be a teacher because his urge to rape children was too strong. He is now dead. Obviously no kipper for him.
Paul Haine171He also wrote this 23 years ago and somehow his career remained unaffected www.theguardian.com/society/2003...
Ade19Been some truly gutting deaths this year. Nice to start this week by losing someone truly awful for once.
Boots8i heard St Peter doesnt even bother looking at the list anymore. just a brief kipper check and then it's on to the next one
leearizuno.bsky.social4Just a relentlessly horrible cunt.
Cap'n Cupcake3And nothing of value was lost. Good riddance.
DamonTheDemon2Ahhh more oxygen for non paedos. Marvellous.
chiller1514 year olds. He "wouldn't dabble much" below that age. Probably.
David Emmett12Rod Liddle was vile human excrement and the world is a better place now that he is dead. May he be swiftly forgotten, except as a warning of how not to live.
Hate Wanks: Attorney at Law at TFN202611Couldn't have happened to a more deserving piece of shit
Mark Hebden10And Rosie Duffield posted how much she would miss him earlier.
Hello, it is me, Kira. :)9Never heard of him before this but nice to wake up on a Monday morning when I have some tasks I am dreading ahead of me and read that a huge gaping asshole I wasn’t aware of died before I even had to start hating him. Rest in piss, bitch.
merlinslaugh.bsky.social3Violent misogynist, racist and transphobic. Just a hateful bigot, a privileged white dude with a hole where his humanity should’ve been. The world is a slightly brighter, shinier place now he’s departed from it.
Kirsty Hall2One less unmitigated arsehole in the world.
You mustn't speak ill of the dead. But don't worry, because everybody spoke ill of him when he was alive. www.theguardian.com/media/2026/a...
Stevie D33I've never yet heard of a Sun columnist dying and felt the world has become worse off. Today continues the streak unchallenged.
Nik Love-Gittins33Why mustn't we speak ill of the dead ? I have never seen the point of that. Beatifying anyone who dies is such nonsense. He was an vile person. We are much better off without him polluting the media space.
Karen Windle32Rod Liddle will be little missed: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Codfather #FBPE 🇫🇷🇪🇺29He was a loathsome scumbag when alive, so now he is a dead one. No tears shed here, good riddance.
lazywheeler.bsky.social20Even Rebekah Brooks said he left an indelible mark on British journalism. It is so good to see all sides unite at this time to agree that he really was a stain on society.
Paul Harper19At least the "provocative" bit is true. Not much else. Good riddance.
Rod Liddle, who once wrote in The Spectator that he couldn’t work as a teacher because he wouldn’t be able to stop himself from shagging the kids, has died aged 66. I won’t be shedding any tears, personally.
rexmanjaw.bsky.social13And people say there is no good news these days.
Anthony 💙🇺🇳🇪🇺🇬🇧🏴🇦🇺13So, setting aside the whole legal duty of a responsible adult by assuming he had neither respect for the law nor personal ethics for a moment, let's be clear... Year 10 is ages 14 to 15 (already below the age of consent), so "dabbling" *below* that at all is well into paedophile territory.
Matt10Didn’t he also assault his wife when she was 20 weeks pregnant? Nice chap, we’ll all miss him
twocvbloke8Hopefully he'll be met down in the pits of hell soon by someone frequently mentioned in the files...
ninepointstar.bsky.social5I was having a really, really bad day and this has cheered me up
CryoA303TM4What I want to know is how much of an absolute freak do you have to be to publicly admit this in a paper
The honest assessment here has to be that the man was paid to be as much of a cunt as he could about absolutely everything, and he excelled at it because he enjoyed being one. But nobody can say that, because it raises questions about what exactly it is *they* are paid to do.
flyingrodent155Like, whenever one of my coworkers died, exactly zero colleagues said they were great because they went out of their way to be a repellent prick all the time. Should perhaps have questions about a profession in which that is so clearly viewed as a great virtue?
grivelvis.bsky.social24He always was a cunt, and is now a dead cunt, which is an improvement.
Conor20There's so many euphemisms here 'contentious' 'not afraid to be disliked' sounds to me like he was a bad guy!
Gift15I really feel there needs to be some interrogation of what might make someone seem like a terrible person. See, I think the aim is to make people like me seem terrible for being glad that an absolute weapon is now beyond writing bigoted shit. And I'm ok with that, but it's not the same is it?
JudithFlanders10‘He never engaged in virtue-signalling’ doesn’t sound as bad as ‘He never did anything good,’ even though the two things have an identical meaning.
NG9It sounds like she’s basically saying that he was a bully
Ernest Penfold30British Journalists not beating the "enemy of the people" allegations
Stéphanie says… 🏴☠️🦈🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️4“For Brutus is an honourable man; So are they all, all honourable men” Julius Caesar, Act 3, Scene 2
pgofton.bsky.social4It’s wild how many of these people’s first thought is- “I must now go onto the Nazi website and defend a dead paedophile wife beater”
Alexander Williams3The contempt for “virtue signalling” has now curdled into a contempt for virtue as a concept.
I booked Rod Liddle as a guest on a show, many years ago, just after he left Today and had started as a columnist. He was a massive arsehole from the moment he arrived till the moment he left. A character trait he went on to demonstrate publicly, in print and on screen till, well, today.
LF Lightning-Barugh13His critics were less kind. Oh Victor, how I miss you, you brilliant, infuriating twat.
Simon 🪗10He + John Cooper Clark were chatting outside the studio before a quiz show. I hadn't known who was going to be on, hadn't quite clocked RL as I walked past but dared myself to say hello to JCC and say I looked forward to him being on. I realised I'd completely blanked Rod Liddle - no regrets ;-)
Lisa Power6I once ran across him drunk (him not me) in the bar at a party political conference. Earnest HIV campaigner that I was, I gave him a safer sex sticker. He was not impressed but a woman with him made him put it on his forehead. It was still there when I left the bar some time later.
AnimalMagic4I also have very poor experience of working with him. Vile, misogynist and a drink-driver.
Richard Courtice4I've never understood how the affable young producer I worked with in the early 90s turned out as he did.
PJ Galley2He was playing to his strengths.
Rod Liddle had a police caution for attacking his pregnant girlfriend. He peddled Rupert Lowe level virulent race hate for the Spectator long before it was fashionable. He wrote about wanting to fuck schoolgirls. To the end he was a bitter, petulant, thin-skinned, needy, angry man. Now he's dead. 🤷🏻♂️
UK Prime Minister10Of course we should save some loathing for every sniggering member of the lib-left Columinati who treated Liddle's revolting politics and personal conduct as regrettable-to-hilarious quirks of a mischievous uncle spicing up a family function (see also Burchill, J), too. (or "Columninati"? IDK.)
ronsalas6That's amazing. Cause in America he'd be president
Dwd Mallender2A refreshing change from one of the good ones
Euan Murray13I just saved this image by @smoothdunk2.bsky.social, Liddle did I know I would be using it so soon
The Film Canary11"Don't speak ill o-" :Gets out megaphone: "DON'T BE AN ARSEHOLE WHEN ALIVE!"
Panther Raccoon2Stg at first I thought the news was about the dude who had his hand up Emu, and fell off his roof. Wrong Rod!
Kitchen Sink Technomystic2time to break out the classics.
Rod Liddle was one of the very worst people I have ever met. An absolute toilet of a man. I'd feel sorry for his family, but I suspect they're relieved the fucker's gone. Rust in piss, you talentless, nasty cunt.
Horizontalsrich6Perhaps you know someone who can corroborate.... I accidentally attended his leaving do from Today in a Shepherds Bush wine bar. Me and a mate had been to a gig and went there afterwards. He left without paying and the card he left with the proprietor for his tab had already expired. Furious owner.
Sb2I met his surprisingly nice wife once. God knows why etc
twodogslfc.bsky.social1One of the best obituaries ever written (until Kelvin McKenzie dies). 10/10
He's dead He's dead Rod Liddle's dead Slimy, fascist, journo, nonce No tears will be shed
Sad to hear Rod Liddle has died, as I never got the chance to tell him what an utter blight on public life he was.
Eddie Robson63Rod Liddle leaves this world having done his level best to make it a worse place to be.
Nick Christian5I had that chance, when our paths crossed at Kings Cross ten years ago, and failed to take it. Few regrets rank higher.
Simon 🪗3I blanked him once to speak to John Cooper Clark, well, I had to stay professional.
corcovito.bsky.social2If it's any consolation, if just one per cent of the people who thought he was a pitiable bigot told him as much to his face, he'd have been hearing that every single moment he ventured outside his house.
Knotabot1My condolences on you missing your chance to tell him 🙏
Racist misogynist ableist homophobic transphobic piece of SHIT Rod Liddle is dead. www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/colu...
Marcus 🏳️🌈🇧🇧41You can’t defame the dead folks so fill your boots
Andrew McGrae21This is an unfair summary of him. He was also a domestic abuser and paedophile.
Barry Lyndon LaRouche8And perpetrator of intimate partner violence Good riddance
Owain Sutton1Obituaries don't always age well. Just saying.
Ada(m)1let out a small "yay"
Anianegwr1Add anti-Welsh bigot to that list.
Rod Liddle was 66? Bloody hell, hate ages you. I thought he was 80.
chiller5Yeah I just went through this cognitive roller coaster too. I assumed he was at least a decade older.
Jeff2Yes I was thinking the same - he must have been a cunt in his younger days too.
Alan Stedman2It depends I suggest on how, for some, you live your life
Gill Kimber2Didn’t I read on here the other day that the woke live longer than the haters?
David Hardstaff2Six months younger than I am, I was astonished to discover!
johncmoore.bsky.social2Is that why I still look like a young Elvis Presley? (So they all tell me.)
Any man's death diminishes me. Oh sorry, you said Rod Liddle.
Stefan Mohamed5says something that even you, one of the kindest figures on here, can't resist a little "rip bozo" at his expense
Pretty Witty Nell2What a shame to live your life like that. Such a brief time we’re here.
Doug is ONLINE1I was going to snarkliy post the pic of his book where he stood on the cover shrugging about a wheelie bin and the London Eye, but then I remembered that was Richard Littlejohn, because really there is very little to tell any of these cunts apart, so little actual value do they have to society
'Ohh ohh Rod Liddle was a complicated figure but he was a terribly witty writer and so charming at Dinner Parties. You absolutely mustn't celebrate his untimely, tragic, death' - British journo who's just had a vision of their future.
Jack93Rod Liddle used his platform to praise neo-nazis Golden Dawn. Wrote how he wouldn't be capable of *not* to raping kids as a teacher. Assaulted his pregnant girlfriend. Anyone in the press and political class know *all* of this and eulogise him anyway. This is who they are.
kilt gozado do jamie bell3"Hitler was nice to his mum in private"
Barry Lyndon LaRouche3Yup. They tried to rehabilitate John Kay, they'll do it for Liddle