Editing Rod Liddle (section)

===Unfair treatment by ''Newsnight''===
Liddle appeared on the BBC's ''[[Newsnight]]'' hosted by [[Emily Maitlis]] to discuss [[Brexit]] on 15 July 2019.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PM4HN7TeDvA|title=Brexit: Rod Liddle and People's Vote's Tom Baldwin on 'betrayal' |work=BBC Newsnight|date=16 July 2019 |access-date=4 November 2021|publisher=[[YouTube]]}}</ref> In the episode, Maitlis said Liddle wrote columns containing "consistent casual racism week after week" and asked Liddle if he would describe himself as a racist. After the episode was broadcast, a complainant alleged that Maitlis was "sneering and bullying" towards Liddle. An investigation by the BBC upheld these complaints, saying that Maitlis was "persistent and personal" in her criticism of Liddle thus "leaving her open to the charge that she had failed to be even-handed" in the discussion.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.pressgazette.co.uk/bbc-upholds-complaint-against-emily-maitlis-over-sneering-newsnight-discussion-with-rod-liddle/|title=BBC upholds complaint against Emily Maitlis over 'sneering' Newsnight discussion with Rod Liddle|author=Charlotte Tobitt|date=24 September 2019|website=Press Gazette|access-date=4 November 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/contact/sites/default/files/2020-01/Bulletin%20April%20-%20September%2019.pdf|title=Analysis of complaints|website=Bbc.co.uk|access-date=4 November 2021}}</ref>