Brendan O'Neill

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

Gary Lineker and the truth about toxic centrism

20 May 2025 12:25 am

What happened to Gary Lineker? For years he was football’s Mr Nice Guy. To some he was the Steve Davis…

The anti-Israel Eurovision mob are Hamas’s little helpers

17 May 2025 12:11 am

Imagine booing a survivor of a fascist attack. People actually did that this week. Pro-Palestine activists heckled and insulted a…

How America betrayed Edan Alexander

13 May 2025 3:09 am

When a US citizen, just 19, was taken captive by a fascist militia, what did America’s progressives do? They cosplayed…

The ugly truth about Lucy Powell’s grooming gangs comments

4 May 2025 10:27 pm

This week Lucy Powell, leader of the House of Commons, did something unusual for a politician: she spoke from the…

Has Keir Starmer watched Groomed: A National Scandal yet?

1 May 2025 9:04 pm

I look forward to Keir Starmer hosting a special summit on the Channel 4 documentary, Groomed. And to hearing him…

Kneecap’s phoney punk act has been unmasked

29 April 2025 10:33 pm

If someone pulled on a Ku Klux Klan hood and went up on a stage and shouted ‘Up the KKK!’,…

Kneecap’s Israelophobia has gone too far

23 April 2025 11:03 pm

The day after the Nova music festival massacre, the Irish band Kneecap posted a photo of themselves grinning from ear…

The trans-rights movement’s howl of male rage

21 April 2025 12:20 am

They defaced the statue of Millicent Fawcett. That’s all you need to know about yesterday’s march for ‘trans rights’. Someone…

Why did we need the Supreme Court to tell us what a woman is?

16 April 2025 10:59 pm

How did it come to this? How did we arrive at a situation where it fell to a court of…

The moment in the ‘grooming gangs’ debate that shamed Jess Phillips

10 April 2025 1:43 am

We are all betrayed by our body language eventually. It’s our inner quisling, itching to expose to the world the…

Is Israel wrong to see Labour MPs as hostile actors?

7 April 2025 11:39 pm

Israel’s denial of entry to two Labour MPs is a truly shaming moment. Not for Israel, which, like all sovereign…

The truth about Israel’s ‘bloodlust’ in Gaza

4 April 2025 9:11 pm

Are we being lied to, or at the very least misled, about what’s going on in Gaza? It increasingly seems…

Why does Zarah Sultana want an airport in Mirpur?

31 March 2025 7:05 am

So Zarah Sultana, the MP for Coventry South, is in favour of building airports now? That’s a turnaround. In January…

Why are there more protests against Hamas in Gaza than Britain?

27 March 2025 1:48 am

You’re more likely to see a protest against Hamas in Gaza than in London. For brave, spirited agitation against this…

Why don’t we hear more about Israel’s stunning blow against Hamas’s fascists?

20 March 2025 12:49 am

Imagine if, following an Allied raid on Nazi positions, the newspapers the next day told us about nothing but the…

Happy St Patrick’s Day – but not for Ireland’s Jews

18 March 2025 2:23 am

‘Céad míle fáilte’, the Irish love to say. It means ‘a hundred thousand welcomes’. It’s emblazoned in the arrivals hall…

Migrants who hate Jews shouldn’t be allowed in Britain

11 March 2025 4:30 pm

If you’re a foreigner who hates Jews, should you be allowed to move to Britain? For me it’s a no-brainer:…

What’s the real reason some on the right hate Volodymyr Zelensky?

3 March 2025 11:30 pm

Perusing the Zelensky-bashing of the Very Online right, I found myself thinking: ‘This reminds me of something.’ The branding of…

The BBC’s Gaza farce takes another sinister turn

27 February 2025 1:11 am

So the moral rot at the BBC appears to run even deeper than we thought. The storm over its Gaza…

Hamas’s final torment of the Bibas family

22 February 2025 12:39 am

So Hamas has committed yet another act of depravity against the Bibas family. It said Shiri Bibas was in one…

The incalculable evil of Hamas’s coffin stunt

21 February 2025 2:05 am

We need to talk about what we witnessed in Gaza today. The sick ceremonial handover of the bodies of slain…

Is Pope Francis Rory Stewart in a frock?

12 February 2025 10:15 pm

Imagine living in your own holy fiefdom, with some of the strictest security on earth, and lecturing other nations about…

The call that shames the pro-Palestine movement

8 February 2025 3:48 am

Some of us switch off when we hear a ‘loony left’ story. We might cock an eyebrow at the latest…

Donald Trump is liberating the US from the transgender madness

7 February 2025 1:04 am

I thought Donald Trump was a woman-hater? The Guardian told us he’s a ‘far-right misogynist’ whose return to the White…

Burning a Quran shouldn’t be a crime

4 February 2025 4:03 am

England ditched its blasphemy laws back in 2008. No longer would it be an offence to engage in ‘contemptuous, reviling,…