Editing Rod Liddle (section)

===Stephen Lawrence, Lee Rigby, disabled and transgender people===
In November 2011, an article by Liddle for ''The Spectator'' suggested the trial of two men accused (and later convicted) of murdering [[Stephen Lawrence]] would not be fair.<ref>Dominic Ponsford [http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/the-rod-liddle-article-which-threatened-stephen-lawrence-trial-as-it-had-barely-begun-51305/ "The Rod Liddle article which threatened Stephen Lawrence trial as it had barely begun"], ''Press Gazette'' (blog), 4 January 2012</ref> It was referred to the Attorney General [[Dominic Grieve]] by the judge for possible contempt of court,<ref>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-15778337 "Spectator referred for 'contempt'"], BBC News, 17 November 2011</ref> and he ordered the jurors not to read it. Having decided that it might have breached a court order, Grieve passed the case on to the [[Crown Prosecution Service]] and the Director of Public Prosecutions.<ref>Jason Deans [https://www.theguardian.com/media/2011/nov/29/spectator-stephen-lawrence-trial "Spectator article on Stephen Lawrence trial referred to DPP"], ''The Guardian'', 29 November 2011</ref> The decision that ''The Spectator'' was to be prosecuted by the CPS for breaching reporting restrictions was announced on 9 May 2012, with a court hearing scheduled for 7 June, although Liddle as the author was not himself liable for prosecution. [[Fraser Nelson]], the magazine's editor, announced that the prosecution would not be contested,<ref>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18005905 "Spectator charged over Stephen Lawrence article"], BBC News, 9 May 2012</ref> and the magazine pleaded guilty at the hearing. The fine was £3,000, plus £2,000 compensation to Stephen Lawrence's parents and £625 costs.<ref>{{cite news|last=Halliday|first=Josh|title=Spectator to pay out £5,625 over Rod Liddle's Stephen Lawrence article|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2012/jun/07/spectator-rod-liddle-stephen-lawrence|work=The Guardian|access-date=7 June 2012|location=London|date=7 June 2012}}</ref>

In January 2012, Liddle wrote that many people in the UK were "pretending to be disabled" in his column for ''[[The Sun (United Kingdom)|The Sun]]'',<ref>'Monkey' [https://www.theguardian.com/media/mediamonkeyblog/2012/jan/26/rod-liddle-sun-column-disabled?newsfeed=true "A Liddle more controversy as Rod's Sun column angers the disabled"], ''The Guardian'' (Media Monkey blog), 26 January 2012</ref> an opinion defended by [[James Delingpole]] who thought "Rod's point is well made".<ref>James Delingpole [https://web.archive.org/web/20120128091844/http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100132880/the-fake-disabled-are-crippling-our-economy/ "The fake disabled are crippling our economy"], ''Telegraph'' (blog), 26 January 2012</ref> Frances Ryan in ''The Guardian'' accused him of "belittling something that on a daily basis affects real people" who can be "a huge benefit to society. Maybe for a month Liddle would like to try that."<ref>Frances Ryan [https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/jan/30/rod-liddle-attack-disability "Rod Liddle's attack on disability cannot be ignored"], theguardian.com (blog), 30 January 2012</ref>

On 23 May 2013, Liddle wrote about the murder of soldier [[Lee Rigby]] near the [[Royal Artillery Barracks]] in Woolwich, London. In the original version of a blog article for ''The Spectator'', he referred to the perpetrators as "two black savages".<ref name="LiddleSavage">The revised version refers to "two savages". See Rod Liddle [http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/rod-liddle/2013/05/terrorist-attack-or-not/ "The words ‘terrorist attack’ only dignify the barbarism"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130609111649/http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/rod-liddle/2013/05/terrorist-attack-or-not/ |date=9 June 2013 }}, ''The Spectator'' (blog), 23 May 2013</ref> After many objections to his language use,<ref>[http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/05/28/rod-liddle-two-black-savages-spectator-blog_n_3346505.html "Rod Liddle's 'Two Black Savages' Spectator Blog Draws Accusations Of Racism"], ''The Huffington Post'', 28 May 2013</ref>  this phrase was modified.<ref>Musa Okwonga [https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/rod-liddle-black-savages-and-louise-mensch-8639277.html "Rod Liddle, 'black savages', and Louise Mensch"], ''The Independent'', 31 May 2013</ref> Liddle apologised.<ref name="LiddleSavage"/><ref>William Turvill [http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/content/spectators-rod-liddle-apologises-describing-woolwich-attackers-black-savages "Spectator's Rod Liddle apologises for describing Woolwich attackers as 'black savages'"], ''Press Gazette'', 28 May 2013</ref>

In May 2015, the [[Independent Press Standards Organisation]] (IPSO) upheld a complaint from [[Trans Media Watch]] that Liddle had been discriminatory towards [[Emily Brothers]], a blind and [[transgender]] Labour candidate at the [[2015 United Kingdom general election|2015 general election]], in two ''Sun'' columns published in December 2014 and January 2015. In commenting in the way he had Liddle had breached two sections of the editors' code.<ref>{{cite news|last=Greenslade|first=Roy|title=''The Sun'' censured by Ipso for Rod Liddle's discriminatory columns|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2015/may/28/the-sun-censured-by-ipso-for-rod-liddles-discriminatory-columns|access-date=28 May 2015|work=The Guardian|date=28 May 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Ponsford|first=Dominic|title=''Sun'' censured by IPSO over Rod Liddle column joke about blind and transgender MP|url=http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/sun-censured-ipso-over-rod-liddle-column-joke-about-blind-and-transgender-mp|access-date=28 May 2015|work=Press Gazette|date=28 May 2015}}</ref>