Tag Archives: Rod Liddle

Ever noticed how much less stable the world is now than in 2003? Well, Blair’s to blame

Here at the Real Deal, we’re big fans of Rod Liddle and occasionally republish the odd one of his more insightful articles.

In the article below, from March 2023, Rod discusses the legacy of the warmongering Blair years.

Ever noticed how much less stable the world is now than in 2003? Well, Blair’s to blame.

Twenty years ago today the US and British tanks rolled into Iraq in an illegal invasion, which, contrary to the belief of one of its chief progenitors, Tony Blair, did not entirely suffuse the Iraqi people with joy.… Click here to continue reading this article

I backed the lockdown (and quite enjoyed it). But was I just a mug?

This article first appeared in the Sunday Times.

In June 2020 I went to the local farm shop to buy my vegetables for the coming fortnight. I was not allowed inside the shop — instead a table had been set up outside with the instruction that I was to keep one metre away from it. You told the shop assistants what you wanted and they went and fetched it for you. Handing the stuff over was difficult because of that one-metre rule. You kind of had to lean forward, and on one occasion I fell over.… Click here to continue reading this article

Betcha we don’t leave the EU — on October 31 or ever

This article first appeared in the Sunday Times.

Since the 2016 referendum, the Establishment has connived to thwart the will of the majority who backed Brexit — and, argues Rod Liddle, its chicanery is about to succeed

At about five o’clock in the morning of June 24, 2016, I was woken by a woman shrieking excitedly in my ear: “We’ve done it, we’ve done it!” Done what? I wondered dimly, dragging myself from a disquieting dream in which giant mechanical Michael Goves were terrorising the country, stamping people to death and firing bolts of electricity out of their rusted metal arms.… Click here to continue reading this article

Wheel in the Daleks, Doctor — whatever it takes to exterminate the BBC’s bias

This article first appeared in the Sunday Times.

My daughter doesn’t watch Doctor Who any more. Normally this would be one of those wry and sweetly painful moments all parents go through: adolescence has suddenly arrived and gentle juvenilia is being jettisoned.

From now on it will all be sullen glares, generational loathing, pierced eyebrows. Class A drugs and pregnancy followed by gender dysphoria and membership of Momentum.

But we are not quite on that track yet, because my daughter continues to watch past series of Doctor Who — in fact, she watches them when the current series is on.… Click here to continue reading this article