phrase was modified. Liddle apologised.William Turvill "Spectator's Rod Liddle apologises for describing Woolwich attackers as 'black savages'", Press Gazette, 28 May 2013 In May 2015, the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO) upheld a complaint from Trans Media Watch that Liddle had been discriminatory towards Emily Brothers, a blind and transgender Labour candidate at the 2015 general election, in two Sun columns published in December 2014 and January 2015. In commenting in the way he had Liddle had breached two sections of the editors' code. BBC coverage of the death of Nelson Mandela In December 2013 in a blog article for The Spectator website published shortly after Nelson Mandela died, Liddle wrote that the BBC coverage on his death was excessive. Richard Garside, director of the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies, tweeted a "Rod Liddle decision tree" which described Liddle as a "wind-up merchant".Tomas Javinda "Rod Liddle criticised for describing death of Nelson Mandela as ‘famous nice black man dies’", The Independent, 6 December 2013 Column on poppers and gay sex During a parliamentary debate on the Psychoactive Substances Bill – which "makes it an offence to produce, supply, offer to supply, possess with intent to supply, possess on custodial premises, import or export psychoactive substances" the Conservative politician Crispin Blunt admitted he used poppers: And would be directly affected by this legislation. And I was astonished to find that it's proposed they be banned and, frankly, so were very many gay men. Liddle responded in his Spectator blog: So, Crispin Blunt MP feels hurt because laws proscribing (or 'poppers') would criminalise the entire gay community. ... I would have thought that the requirement for amyl nitrate to relax the sphincter muscle and lube to accommodate entry was God's way of telling you that what you're about to do is unnatural and perverse. Or your body's way of telling you – your call. So eeeeuw. ... Crispin and others can always use a jemmy [crowbar] instead. The satirical and current affairs magazine Private Eye described this as hypocritical, pointing out Liddle's account in The Sunday Times of using Viagra in July 2004 in which he wrote that it was: "The weirdest drug I ever took, far more psychologically disturbing than LSD. For the next six hours, I had this implacable, disembodied, unconscionably rigid appendage dragging me hither and thither". A spokesperson from the LGBT rights charity Stonewall said of Liddle's