This year, few public figures have enjoyed as resounding a send-off as the newspaper columnist Rod Liddle. Did Rod Liddle use his remarkable talents to leave the world a better and kinder place? Liddle told his readers that the burka was "a coded message saying, essentially, this: 'You think this is your country, you sap? On Tuesday, the Times, which is owned by Murdoch, gave two full pages of praise for Rod Liddle. Did Rod Liddle use his remarkable talents to leave the world a better and kinder place?