Brendan O'Neill

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

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,…

Why are ‘anti-racists’ silent about Arbel Yehud’s terrible ordeal?

31 January 2025 1:48 am

Watching Arbel Yehud being freed in Gaza today, I thought to myself: this is what it must have been like…

The ‘dejudification’ of the Holocaust

29 January 2025 4:23 am

Imagine talking about the transatlantic slave trade and not saying the word African. Or discussing the genocidal slaughter in Rwanda…

No, Elon Musk didn’t make a fascist salute

21 January 2025 9:40 pm

We’re not even 24 hours into the second Donald Trump term and already there’s a ‘New Nazis’ panic. Only this…

Did we learn anything from Charlie Hebdo?

7 January 2025 6:00 pm

Ten years ago today, two men armed with Kalashinikovs barged into the offices of Charlie Hebdo in Paris and opened…

Why is Israel being blamed for the battle of Kamal Adwan Hospital?

31 December 2024 7:35 pm

Every good reporter knows you never bury the lede. You never smother the key point of a story with fluff…

Israel is right to cut ties with Ireland

16 December 2024 10:29 pm

Everything that has gone wrong in modern Ireland is summed up in the fact that it is winning praise from…

Stop idolising Luigi Mangione

11 December 2024 2:49 am

So according to the modern left, killing the fascists of Hamas is ‘genocide’, but killing a CEO and father of…

There’s nothing radical about flying the Palestine flag

29 November 2024 4:28 pm

I have a confession to make: when those Maccabi Tel Aviv fans tore down a Palestine flag in Amsterdam a…

The farmers’ revolt makes me proud to be British

20 November 2024 4:00 am

My first thought upon seeing today’s revolt of the farmers was just how gloriously normal it looked. For more than…

Donald Trump and the revenge of the deplorables

6 November 2024 9:42 pm

So now we know what happens when you sneer at voters as ‘garbage’. When you view them as ‘deplorables’. When…

The sheer joylessness of Kamala Harris

6 November 2024 12:38 am

Whatever happened to Kamala Harris’s promise of ‘joy’? Joy was in catastrophically short supply among her supporters I met in…

Kemi Badenoch isn’t the ‘black face’ of ‘white supremacy’

4 November 2024 5:21 pm

We need to talk about Dawn Butler. Following the election of the first ever black leader of a major party…

Radiohead’s Thom Yorke has the perfect riposte to the anti-Israel bores

1 November 2024 4:45 pm

Finally, a celeb has stood up to the Israel bashers. It took the famously dour frontman of Radiohead to do…

When will Sally Rooney boycott Britain?

28 October 2024 11:14 pm

I have a question for Sally Rooney. Why are you perfectly happy to engage with cultural institutions in the UK,…

The gratuitous trade in images of Palestinian pain

23 October 2024 5:32 pm

It is getting to the point where I am dreading going online. For I know the minute I open my…

No, Israel isn’t deliberately killing children in Gaza

16 October 2024 9:54 pm

In every war, children perish. It’s the worst thing about conflict, this dragging of innocents into the swirling maelstrom of…

Does the Guardian need reminding that Hamas are the bad guys?

11 October 2024 4:13 pm

The Guardian has found a new minority it wants to shield from offence. A new oppressed group it might shed…

Shame on the pro-Palestinian mob for hijacking 7 October

7 October 2024 5:18 pm

It is one year since the Jews suffered the worst act of anti-Semitic violence since the Nazi era, and what…

Robert Jenrick’s critics must calm down about his Star of David idea

2 October 2024 12:34 am

Is Robert Jenrick plotting to surrender our sovereignty to the Israelis? Is the Tory leadership frontrunner engaged in some nefarious…

The plight of Hatun Tash shames Britain

24 September 2024 1:47 am

There is a Christian preacher, a woman, who has suffered the most heinous persecutions. She has been chased by mobs,…

Coconut placards and the truth about free speech in Britain

17 September 2024 4:07 pm

When you describe what happened, you realise how ridiculous it was. A woman was dragged to court for holding up…

The EU’s Apple tax ruling is a bleak day for Ireland

11 September 2024 12:47 am

For those of us who grew up singing songs about Irish nationhood, today is a depressing day. As youths we…

‘Paddy-bashing’ and the blind spot of progressives

6 September 2024 4:05 pm

There’s a new book out that depicts Irish people as gurning ginger-haired imbeciles who do Irish jigs in the garden…

Jess Phillips must explain her two-tier NHS Gaza claim

31 August 2024 2:53 am

Forget two-tier policing – we need to talk about two-tier healthcare. Jess Phillips, Labour MP and Home Office minister, has…