Rod Liddle writes for The Sunday Times and is a former speechwriter for the Labour Party and editor of the BBC's Today programme en-uk Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:37:29 GMT Copyright 2007 Times Newspapers Ltd. custserv@timesonline.co.uk http://www.timesonline.co.uk Sat, 11 Jul 2009 23:21:32 GMT Newspapers 144 21 http://www.timesonline.co.uk http://images.thetimes.co.uk/TGD/picture/0,,116979,00.gif Rod Liddle Sun, 12 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT 2009-07-12T12:11:34Z Cometh the hour, cometh the man. The news from Afghanistan has been grim recently and getting grimmer - but now onto the battlefield strides Field Marshal Clegg, of the Liberal Democrat Light Armoured Division, a model of iron will, resolution and decisiveness. As Wellington once said of Napoleon, Clegg must be worth 40,000 men. And some helicopters and cluster bombs. Rod Liddle Sun, 05 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT 2009-07-05T12:02:47Z It will be a great consolation to Gary McKinnon when he begins his prison sentence in the United States to know that back home, the prime minister’s wife is still shedding tears for him. Or perhaps she will have stopped crying by then – one really can’t tell with women; one moment they’re crying, the next they are right as rain. And they cry over the strangest things. Sun, 28 Jun 2009 00:00:40 GMT 2009-06-27T07:01:38Z OFF-KEY PERFORMANCE Rod Liddle Sun, 28 Jun 2009 00:00:38 GMT 2009-06-27T06:49:36Z I was a little bit disappointed by those expenses charged by BBC executives and revealed by the corporation last week in another of those sudden outbursts of “openness and transparency”. I had hoped we might be able to gather once more around the guillotine like a tricoteuse, finishing off the sweater we started with the bankers and which now has 12 sleeves as a consequence of our ghastly politicians. Rod Liddle Sun, 28 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT 2009-06-28T12:57:13Z I was a little bit disappointed by those expenses charged by BBC executives and revealed by the corporation last week in another of those sudden outbursts of “openness and transparency”. I had hoped we might be able to gather once more around the guillotine like a tricoteuse, finishing off the sweater we started with the bankers and which now has 12 sleeves as a consequence of our ghastly politicians.