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Press watchdog rejects complaints over Rod Liddle “piano wire” column

IPSO says anti-cyclist column did not breach Editors' Code of Practice

Tue, Jun 02, 2020 15:30
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Sunday Times says Rod Liddle “piano wire” column “not intended to be taken seriously”

Newspaper excuses anti-cyclist piece with exact phrase that Cycling UK had said would be an “inappropriate” defence of column

Wed, May 27, 2020 11:43
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Cycling UK complains to Sunday Times over Rod Liddle’s “piano wire at neck height” column – published on weekend a cyclist was hospitalised by riding into such a trap

Charity says “words have consequences” and article was “inflammatory, in seriously poor taste” and condoned criminal act

Tue, May 26, 2020 16:45
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‘Tempting’ – Sunday Times columnist Rod Liddle on stretching piano wire across road to target cyclists

Comments come a month after a rider near Leeds was injured by exactly that type of trap

Sun, May 24, 2020 18:49
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Sunday Times: Rod Liddle wasn’t condoning ‘dooring’ cyclists – he was just using “heavy irony”

Newspaper’s response dismays charity Cycling UK and widow of cyclist killed in dooring incident

Thu, Dec 22, 2016 18:08
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Cycling UK demands Sunday Times retracts and apologises for Rod Liddle column praising transport secretary for dooring a cyclist

Charity slams "inflammatory and dangerous" comments by controversial columnist

Wed, Dec 21, 2016 19:40
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