Brendan O'Neill

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

Gay marriage and the death of freedom

6 December 2014 9:00 am

Rather than striking a blow for individual liberties, the dogma of gay marriage is stifling them

Free speech is so last century. Today’s students want the ‘right to be comfortable’

22 November 2014 9:00 am

Free speech is so last century. Today’s undergraduates demand the ‘right to be comfortable’

Now it’s the tranny-state

18 October 2014 9:00 am

The transgender community have become masters (er, mistresses?) of intolerance and offence-taking

Students - bunk off your sex classes and learn on the job

27 September 2014 9:00 am

Universities are forcing undergraduates to attend sex education classes. Poor students

The biggest civil liberties outrage you've never heard of

23 August 2014 9:00 am

‘Bubble matches’ sound like something quaint. In fact,they’re an outrage against civil liberties

A dark day for Australia

9 August 2014 9:00 am

Tony Abbott’s ‘leadership call’ on Section 18C is a double-whammy wallop in the face of liberty

Welcome to the age of self-love

28 June 2014 9:00 am

Pro-masturbation campaigning is a cause for our narcissistic times

Just another witch hunt

28 June 2014 9:00 am

Should we really ostracise the opera singer Tamar Iveri?

Diary

10 May 2014 9:00 am

I knew from reading his book that Bob Carr was colossally vain. But still I’m stunned when, 90 seconds before…

In praise of Big Coal

26 April 2014 9:00 am

Through its coal-digging antics, Oz has made itself the midwife of a new era of progress around the world

A culture war on whaling

5 April 2014 9:00 am

Australia’s successful international block on Japan’s business represents the nanny state gone global

Please stop trying to raise my awareness

29 March 2014 9:00 am

Once, campaigners and charities tried to fight social evils. Now they just tell us about them

Israelis don’t care that we hate them. But they’d like to know why

15 March 2014 9:00 am

Israelis’ theories on why it’s fashionable for the West to despise them

Trollhunters are a menace to the internet

1 March 2014 9:00 am

Don’t blame Twitter for the tragic death of Charlotte Dawson

The latest anti-Semitic cry: ban circumcision

19 October 2013 9:00 am

The thinking of those who seek to ban circumcision is dreary, backwards – and often anti-Semitic

Why interns don’t deserve pay

17 August 2013 9:00 am

The ‘intern justice’ movement is preposterous – and damaging

The making of a myth

17 January 2013 2:00 pm

When John Kelly was transported from Tipperary to Tasmania in 1841, for stealing pigs, he couldn’t have imagined that 170…

The making of a myth

17 January 2013 2:00 pm

When John Kelly was transported from Tipperary to Tasmania in 1841, for stealing pigs, he couldn’t have imagined that 170…