Brendan O'Neill

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

How was the puberty blocking scandal ever allowed to happen?

17 March 2024 6:15 pm

Remember when Irish singer Róisín Murphy was set upon by the mob last year? Her crime: she criticised puberty blockers…

Leave Kate Middleton alone

12 March 2024 11:25 pm

Well done everyone for ruining Mother’s Day for the Princess of Wales. I hope you’re proud of yourselves. A young-ish…

The disgusting defacement of Lord Balfour’s painting

10 March 2024 1:12 am

There’s a new movement in town: Philistines for Palestine. Not content with traipsing through the streets every other weekend to…

Who could object to a Muslim war memorial?

7 March 2024 9:39 pm

I don’t understand right-wingers who spend most of their time on the internet. Often they’re found tut-tutting over what they…

Prince William should keep quiet about Gaza

21 February 2024 11:42 pm

‘William: Fighting in Gaza must be brought to an end’, bellows the Daily Telegraph‘s front page today, next to an…

Brianna Ghey’s murder is being weaponised – but not by Sunak

9 February 2024 2:16 am

We really have seen the worst of politics over the past 24 hours. I’m not referring to Rishi Sunak’s dig…

Of course the Clapham chemical attack is about asylum

5 February 2024 11:25 pm

The Clapham chemical attack is ‘not really about asylum’. An actual government minister said this. Not some junior scribe for…

What was the Clapham chemical attack suspect doing in Britain?

2 February 2024 10:08 pm

Here’s my question about Abdul Ezedi, the suspect in the Clapham chemical attack: what the hell was he doing in…

It’s not Palestinian blood that is cheap, Humza Yousaf

24 January 2024 2:21 am

Sometimes a politician says something that makes you wonder if they’re living on a different planet. This week it was…

The delusion of the Houthi pacifists

13 January 2024 2:08 am

I see ‘Not in my name’ is trending on social media. It’s in response to the US and UK strikes…

Joey Barton

The disgusting attempt to silence Joey Barton

11 January 2024 12:25 am

I have a question. What’s more ‘dangerous’ and ‘disgusting’ – a footballer sounding off on social media or a government…

Harvard’s Claudine Gay isn’t a victim of racism

4 January 2024 4:18 am

A month ago, Claudine Gay of Harvard University was obsessed with putting things into context. Asked at that now infamous…

Why don’t anti-racists care about anti-Semitism?

29 December 2023 2:10 am

Where have all the anti-racists gone? You couldn’t move for anti-racists in recent years. They thundered from their newspaper pulpits…

Is identity politics to blame for the rise of anti-Semitism?

19 December 2023 3:40 am

Anti-Semitism is surging among the young. It is now positively hip to view Jews as ‘problematic’. Consider the recent Harvard/Harris…

Why can’t some Londoners tolerate posters of kidnapped Israelis?

15 December 2023 5:00 pm

What is it about those images of Israelis kidnapped by Hamas that so infuriates certain sections of the public? Since…

The chilling link between anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism

5 December 2023 4:40 am

Isn’t it remarkable how similar anti-Zionism is to anti-Semitism? The latest proof of an intimate link between these two ideologies…

What Palestine supporters could learn from the anti-Semitism march

27 November 2023 12:11 am

Imagine having to be reminded not to be racist. Imagine if officialdom itself felt it necessary to whisper in your…

Will Zarah Sultana quit Labour if it is ‘institutionally racist’?

22 November 2023 2:42 am

Anyone who’s ever had a conversation with a Corbynista will know it’s impossible to talk to these people about anti-Semitism.…

Jess Phillips and the shame of Labour’s ceasefire rebels

17 November 2023 2:08 am

I can’t decide if last night’s Labour revolt was an act of pointless narcissism or sinister appeasement. Maybe it was…

The real far-right threat

13 November 2023 2:37 am

There was a horrendous far-right gathering in London yesterday. Racist cries cut through the air like a knife. One attendee…

When will those ‘marching for Palestine’ do the right thing?

8 November 2023 9:29 pm

Those of us who believe in freedom of expression have felt mighty lonely this week. We have watched as, one…

Why won’t Gary Lineker call out the fascism of Hamas?

7 November 2023 12:07 am

One of the most curious things following Hamas’s massacre of the Jews on 7 October was the silence of Britain’s…

Hamas’s victim complex

4 November 2023 1:24 am

‘We are the victims… therefore nobody should blame us for the things we do.’ Who do you think said this?…

Dagestan’s anti-Semitic mob and the truth about Palestinian ‘solidarity’

30 October 2023 10:52 pm

So now we know what a ‘globalised intifada’ might look like. That’s what people chanted for on the streets of…

The shameful desecration of Israel’s kidnapped children

26 October 2023 3:31 am

We have seen many grim images over the past two weeks. Images of the apocalyptic, Isis-style violence visited upon the…