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Apr 01, 1960 Abbey Wood, England, United Kingdom 64 years old
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About Rod Liddle
- Roderick E.
- Liddle (born 1 April 1960) is an English journalist, and an associate editor of The Spectator.
- He was an editor of BBC Radio 4's 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, 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, among other publications. His comments have repeatedly caused controversy, and his acrimonious divorce in 2004 from Rachel Royce received much attention from the media.
- In 2010 he was the first journalist to have a complaint against a blog post he had written to be upheld by the Press Complaints Commission, over a claim that he could not prove about the African-Caribbean community.A November 2011 article by Liddle in The Spectator about the trial of two men involved in the murder of Stephen Lawrence led to the magazine being prosecuted for breaching reporting restrictions.
- A court hearing was held in June 2012, in which The Spectator pleaded guilty to contempt of court and accepted a fine of £5,000 plus costs.
