Brendan O'Neill

Brendan O'Neill is the editor of Spiked and a columnist for The Australian and The Big Issue.

Jerry Seinfeld and the dark truth about ‘Free Palestine’

16 June 2026 1:44 am

I see Jerry Seinfeld has got the pompous left sobbing into their keffiyehs. His sin? He refused to buckle to…

The vindication of ‘Sophie of Dundee’

12 June 2026 11:57 pm

So ‘Sophie of Dundee’ has been vindicated. The Scots girl who was so sickeningly defamed by the digital left stands…

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Belfast and the truth about ‘alien cultures’

11 June 2026 12:15 am

How would you describe a culture where women are flogged in public for “inappropriate dress?” A culture where one woman…

Why can we rage against George Floyd’s death but not Henry Nowak’s?

4 June 2026 12:30 pm

I see that the people who took the knee and tore down statues after a man was killed 4,000 miles…

It’s a bit late for Cenk Uygur’s supporters to cry about free speech

2 June 2026 12:35 am

Zack Polanski is fuming over the Home Secretary’s decision to ban two internet-famous Israel haters from the UK. It’s ‘really…

Restore, the Greens and the rise of Gen Z Jew hate

29 May 2026 4:00 pm

At first glance, the youth wings of Restore Britain and the Green party would appear to have little in common.…

Ben-Gvir’s crass gloating isn’t the worst thing about the Gaza flotilla

22 May 2026 8:50 pm

Imagine if, in 1941, as we were fighting for our lives against the German menace, a boatload of foreign narcissists…

Why does the BBC think Afghan men are selling their daughters?

20 May 2026 4:33 pm

If you heard that a man was thinking about selling his seven-year-old daughter into marriage or domestic servitude, who would…

The voters of Makerfield should give Burnham the boot

15 May 2026 6:54 pm

The good people of Makerfield have the potential to do the funniest thing. It is in their gift to unleash…

Why the question ‘Can women have a penis?’ really matters

11 May 2026 3:40 pm

What’s weirder: asking if a woman can have a penis or being so flummoxed by such a simple query that…

Why the pro-Palestine marches must stop

5 May 2026 9:52 pm

It is not even a week since that horrific act of violence against Jews in Golders Green, and what is…

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The Golders Green atrocity is the final straw

30 April 2026 4:48 am

It is undeniable now: war has been declared on British Jews. A fascistic crusade is being waged against our Jewish…

Róisín Murphy and the corrosiveness of cancel culture in the arts

29 April 2026 9:43 pm

In her Reith lecture on freedom in 2022, the great Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie warned of the ‘unconscionable barbarism’…

Is Zack Polanski seriously questioning Jewish safety?

23 April 2026 7:59 pm

Hey, Jews – have you ever considered the possibility that you’re making a fuss over nothing? That a few petrol…

Epsom betrays the truth about Britain’s politicised police

17 April 2026 12:29 am

Explain this to me. Why is it that a gathering of mostly white working-class men protesting about a rape is…

The shameful lies about Israel’s attack on Hezbollah

10 April 2026 4:01 pm

Imagine there was a virulently Francophobic militia on the doorstep of the French Republic. Imagine it had fired nearly a…

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Why the keffiyeh classes have forgiven Kanye West

3 April 2026 7:51 am

And there you have it. Britain is a country where a musician who says “Heil Hitler” gets to headline festivals…

There’s nothing merciful about Noelia Castillo’s death

27 March 2026 9:24 pm

This week, in Spain, a rape victim was killed by the state. A young woman in pain and despair was…

The intifada has arrived in London

23 March 2026 8:53 pm

At first I thought it was a scene from one of the battlefronts in the Middle East. The hellish glow…

Nick Timothy isn’t the bad guy in the row over mass Muslim prayer

20 March 2026 4:15 pm

Would you rather live in a society where a man is free to criticise religious practices or one where such…

The truth about ‘progressives’ like Bob Vylan

17 March 2026 12:41 am

Maybe it’s because I’m getting on in years, but I remember when being “progressive” meant supporting women’s rights, believing in…

War on Iran was not ‘unprovoked’

13 March 2026 4:15 pm

I’ve been thinking a lot about the phrase ‘unprovoked war’. It’s been rolling off leftist tongues since the explosion of…

Can you ‘identify’ as English?

10 March 2026 5:03 pm

There is not one drop of English blood in my body. I know this because, like many others, I succumbed…

Britain has never needed an ‘Islamophobia’ definition less

4 March 2026 5:00 pm

For the first time, I am grateful to Zack Polanski. For, in branding Keir Starmer ‘Islamophobic’ simply for criticising Mothin…

Morrissey is the last rock rebel

2 March 2026 11:14 pm

Two big pop events took place on Saturday. In Manchester, there was the Brit Awards. One by one the bourgeois…