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Roderick E. L. Liddle (born 1 April 1960) is an English〔https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=FxT90ZEGyoQC&pg=PA229&lpg=PA229&dq=%22rod+liddle%22+%22I%27m+english%22&source=bl&ots=2LgVgIUo3D&sig=q_SBlayshp4CeRDFL0lZZ8kW1L8&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CFkQ6AEwCWoVChMItMDS4M_TxwIVwVoUCh2xqAAp#v=onepage&q=%22rod%20liddle%22%20%22english%22&f=false〕 journalist. He is an associate editor of ''The Spectator'', and former editor of BBC Radio 4's ''Today'' programme, he is the author of ''Too Beautiful for You'' (2003), ''Love Will Destroy Everything'' (2007), and co-author of ''The Best of Liddle Britain'' (2007). He has presented several 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 become editor of ''Today'' in 1998, resigning in 2002 after his employers objected to one of his articles in ''The Guardian''. He has also written for ''The Sunday Times'' 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. He was accused of racism for making remarks about the African-Caribbean community and for the content of his posts to an online forum. 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.〔Owen Boycott ("Spectator magazine to face charge over article on Stephen Lawrence trial" ),''The Guardian'', 9 May 2012〕 ==Early life and career== Liddle was born in Sidcup, Kent the son of a train driver. From the age of eight, he was brought up in Nunthorpe, a suburb of Middlesbrough, in north east England. He was educated at the comprehensive Laurence Jackson School in nearby Guisborough and the adjacent sixth form college, where he formed a punk band called ''Dangerbird''. At 16, he was a member of the Socialist Workers Party〔Rod Liddle ("Britain's great divide: London versus the rest", ) ''The Guardian'', 5 June 2002〕 remaining a member for about a year,〔Rod Liddle ("Let's not forget the weirdos and halfwits", ) ''The Spectator'', 16 December 2005.〕 and a supporter of CND around the same time.〔Barber, Lynn. ("Liddle at large" ), ''The Observer'', 5 October 2003〕 He attended the London School of Economics (LSE) as a mature student, where he read Social Psychology.〔("Profile: Rod Liddle: How to sex up – and mess up – your life" ), ''The Times'', 11 July 2004.〕〔Leapman, Michael ("The New Statesman Interview – Rod Liddle" ), ''New Statesman'', 30 July 2001〕 His early career in journalism was with the ''South Wales Echo'' in Cardiff where he was a general news reporter and, for a time, the rock and pop writer. He worked between 1983 and 1987 as a speechwriter and researcher for the Labour Party.〔("Rod Liddle" ), BBC News, 29 September 2005〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rod Liddle」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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