Rod Liddle (born 1 April 1960) is an English journalist and an associate editor of The Spectator. 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. He currently writes for The Sunday Times, The Spectator and The Sun, among other publications.

At 16, he was a member of the Socialist Workers Party, remaining a member for about a year, and was a supporter of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) around the same time. He recalled campaigning for Labour in the 1983 general election, canvassing votes by going door to door in full punk get-up. He estimated that in doing so "I must have singlehandedly lost my party a good 5,000 votes".

He attended the London School of Economics (LSE) as a mature student, reading social psychology. 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 from 1983 to 1987 as a speechwriter and researcher for the Labour Party.

Although Liddle considered becoming a secondary school teacher, he decided against it on the grounds that he "could not remotely conceive of not trying to shag the kids", clarifying that he wouldn't have "dabbled much below Year 10.". Liddle instead returned to journalism after graduating from the LSE, and was taken on as a trainee producer by the BBC.

Liddle was appointed editor of the BBC Radio 4 programme Today in 1998. The programme had a reputation for its political interviews, but Liddle tried, with some success, to improve the show's investigative journalism. To this end he hired journalists from outside the BBC. Among these was Andrew Gilligan, who joined from The Sunday Telegraph in 1999. Gilligan's 29 May 2003 report on Today — that the British government had "sexed up" the intelligence dossier on Iraq, a report broadcast after Liddle had left the programme — began a chain of events that included the death in July that year of David Kelly, the weapons inspector who was Gilligan's source, and the subsequent Hutton Inquiry, a public inquiry into the circumstances of Kelly's death. Liddle defended Gilligan throughout the controversy.

Under Liddle's editorship, Today won a number of awards: a Sony Silver in 2002 for reports by Barnie Choudhury and Mike Thomson into the causes of race riots in the north of England; a Sony Bronze in 2003 for an investigation by Angus Stickler into paedophile priests; and an Amnesty International Media Award in 2003 for Gilligan's investigation into the sale of illegal landmines, an investigation that attracted a lengthy legal action. While working for Today, Liddle also wrote a column for The Guardian. On 25 September 2002, referring to a march organised by the Countryside Alliance in defence of fox hunting, Liddle wrote that readers may have forgotten why they voted Labour in 1997, but would remember once they saw the people campaigning to save hunting. His column led The Daily Telegraph to accuse Liddle of bias and of endangering democracy.

The BBC concluded that Liddle's comments breached his commitment to impartiality as a BBC programme editor, and gave him an ultimatum to stop writing his column or resign from his position on Today. He resigned on 30 September 2002. He said later that when he was editor he was ordered by BBC management to sack Frederick Forsyth from the show, and speculated that it was because of Forsyth's right wing political views. The BBC replied that the decision was made for editorial reasons. Liddle also courted controversy in his article "Should it really be a crime to look at child pornography", discussing the public and police's response to child pornography and highlighted the Pete Townshend case as a means to highlight problems with enforcing the law.