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Jon Reed @jonreed.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Rajan: “His readers treasured his love of mischief and pellucid prose.“ Webb: “A great writer and a great editor.” Me: 🤮 #R4Today

A Rod Liddle column in The Spectator from 29 Sep 2012, in which he says: “the one thing stopping me from being a teacher was that I could not remotely conceive of not trying to shag the kids.”

The full extract pictured reads: “I never found out because the one thing stopping me from being a teacher was that I could not remotely conceive of not trying to shag the kids. It seemed to me virtually impossible not to, and I was convinced that I'd be right in there, on day one. Were talking secondary school level here, by the way — and even then I don't think I'd have dabbled much below year ten, as it is now called. I just thought we ought to clear that up early on. At my old comprehensive…”

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Simunch @simunch1.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

JHB summed up his toxicity quite well. Personally I found Liddle obnoxious, odious and a great bore. As for Amol Rajan, friend of Russian billionaire Lord Evgeny Lebedev who appointed him as editor of the Independent at the age of 29.

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