Brendan O'Neill

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

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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…

The Islamo-left is coming to Parliament

28 February 2026 5:12 pm

Imagine if Matt Goodwin had given an interview to a media outlet that regularly platforms far-right agitators like Nick Griffin.…

How West Midlands Police became a tool of the anti-Jewish mob

24 February 2026 5:25 pm

The Home Affairs Committee report on the Maccabi Tel Aviv scandal has finally landed. And it is damning indeed. It…

The hunting of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor

21 February 2026 1:17 am

The first thing the mob kills is its own humanity. Long before they sink their collective claws into the target…

What happened to Speakers’ Corner?

19 February 2026 4:30 pm

We need to talk about Ahmed Mohammed. He’s a Sudanese asylum seeker in the UK, and this week he was spared…

Why was Jim Ratcliffe punished for speaking the truth?

13 February 2026 2:05 am

Imagine getting angrier over a word than a rape. This will go down in history as the week when there…

Couldn’t the Israelophobes give it a rest for one day?

10 February 2026 9:39 pm

Are Jews not allowed even one day of commemoration? Can’t they have just one sombre moment where they might remember…

The Epstein scandal has morphed into a moral panic

6 February 2026 4:35 pm

That’s it, I’m out. I’m finished with the Epstein scandal. This morning I read about a man who is on…

Why won’t the Green party use the word ‘Jews’?

2 February 2026 10:29 pm

Imagine talking about the Holocaust and not mentioning the Jews. It would be like holding forth on the transatlantic slave…

The Greens vs Reform by-election will expose Britain’s real dividing line

28 January 2026 9:38 pm

People are saying the Gorton and Denton by-election will be a showdown between the Greens and Reform. Between Zack Polanski’s…

London is finally about to show its support for a free Iran

16 January 2026 11:34 pm

Over the years, on the streets of London, I have heard so much praise for the Iranian regime and its…

Iran’s uprising and the moral bewilderment of Western youth

12 January 2026 9:55 pm

I’m starting to feel sorry for progressives who are schtum about the revolution in Iran. My contempt for them is…