Rod Liddle

Rod Liddle, 66, died on August 2, 2026. Rod Liddle was known publicly as an English journalist. He was an editor of BBC Radio 4's Today. He wrote the novels 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. Public biographical listings identify Liddle as an English journalist. This public record remains centered on Liddle's work as an English journalist and the documented milestones of that career.