Editing Rod Liddle (section)

{{short description|British journalist (born 1960)}}
{{distinguish|text=former co-chair of the National Congress of Australia's First Peoples, [[Rod Little]]}}
{{Use British English|date=January 2013}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2019}}
{{POV|date=October 2024}}
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| name                      = Rod Liddle
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| birth_date                = {{birth date and age|1960|4|1|df=yes}}
| birth_place               = [[Sidcup]], [[Kent]], England
| education                 = [[Prior Pursglove College]]
| alma_mater                = [[London School of Economics]]
| occupation                = {{hlist|Journalist|broadcaster}}
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[[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]] (until 2016)<ref>{{cite news |last=Liddle |first=Rod |url=http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/rod-liddle/2010/09/so-some-people-actually-voted-for-abbott/ |title=So some people actually voted for Abbott? |newspaper=[[The Spectator]] |date=26 September 2010 |access-date=14 October 2012 |archive-date=16 June 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130616103135/http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/rod-liddle/2010/09/so-some-people-actually-voted-for-abbott/ |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |first=Rod |last=Liddle |url=http://www.spectator.co.uk/columnists/rod-liddle/9500072/call-me-insane-but-im-voting-labour/ |title=Call me insane, but I'm voting Labour |newspaper=The Spectator |date=18 April 2015}}</ref><ref name="Oppenheim">{{cite news|last=Oppenheim|first=Maya|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/rod-liddle-suspended-from-labour-party-for-describing-antisemitism-as-visceral-for-many-muslims-a7037476.html|title=Rod Liddle suspended from Labour party for describing 'antisemitism as visceral for many Muslims'|work=The Independent|date=19 May 2016|access-date=19 May 2016}}</ref><br />[[Social Democratic Party (UK, 1990–present)|SDP]] (2019–present)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.spectator.co.uk/2019/03/why-ive-joined-the-sdp-and-why-you-should-too/ |title=Why I've joined the SDP (and why you should, too) |last=Liddle |first=Rod |website=[[The Spectator]] |date=14 March 2019 |access-date=15 March 2019}}</ref> 
| spouse                    = {{ubl|{{marriage|Rachel Royce<br />|January 2004|2007|reason=divorced}}|{{marriage|Alicia Monckton<br />|September 2008}}}}
| children                  = 3
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'''Rod Liddle''' (born 1 April 1960) is an English journalist,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/help-me-im-scottish/ |title=Help me, I'm Scottish |last=Liddle |first=Rod |website=[[The Spectator]] |date=7 January 2023 |access-date=7 January 2023}}</ref> and an associate editor of ''[[The Spectator]]''. He was an editor of [[BBC Radio 4]]'s ''[[Today (BBC Radio 4)|Today]]'' programme. His published works include ''Too Beautiful for You'' (2003), ''Love Will Destroy Everything'' (2007), ''The Best of Liddle Britain'' (co-author, 2007) and the semi-autobiographical ''Selfish Whining Monkeys'' (2014). He has presented television programmes, including ''The New Fundamentalists'', ''[[The Trouble with Atheism]]'', and ''Immigration Is A Time Bomb''.

Liddle began his career at the ''[[South Wales Echo]]'', then worked for the [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]], and later joined the [[BBC]]. He became editor of ''Today'' in 1998, resigning in 2002 after his employers objected to one of his articles in ''[[The Guardian]]''. He currently writes for ''[[The Sunday Times]]'', ''[[The Spectator]]'' and ''[[The Sun (United Kingdom)|The Sun]]'', among other publications.