Very sad news (The Telegraph, £). The start of the piece:

“Rod Liddle, the journalist and former editor of BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, has died at the age of 66.

Liddle, a columnist for The Sunday Times and The Sun, and a presenter on Times Radio, died on Sunday evening following a short illness at The James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough.

He was one of the highest-profile editors of the Today programme, which he ran from 1998 until 2002.

After leaving the BBC, he became a columnist for The Spectator, where he delighted in airing controversial opinions on race, immigration and feminism. [J4MB: Very rarely on feminism. The Spectator wouldn’t permit more, having been feminism-compliant for many years.] He regularly accused his former employer of Left-wing bias…”.

A BBC piece here. Of course it fails to mention any mention of Liddle’s criticism of the organisation.

The first article I always checked out when opening the online edition of The Sunday Times was Liddle’s, followed by Jeremy Clarkson’s. I shall not renew my subscription to The Times when it comes up for renewal, for a number of reasons, including its relentlessly feminism-compliant and anti-male articles and its attacks on Reform UK in general and Nigel Farage in particular. I already have online subscriptions to the The Telegraph and The Spectator, and can’t see much pointing in continuing with The Times.

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