_In 2005 Rod Liddle accepted a police caution for common assault after a row with his pregnant partner. Both later said no punches were thrown—only a struggle over a suitcase—and he took the caution to leave custody faster.
In a 2012 Spectator piece on a teacher-pupil case he wrote, hyperbolically, that he skipped teaching because he “could not remotely conceive of not trying to shag the kids” (Year 10+). Classic Liddle provocation, not a literal plan._
