Brendan O'Neill

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

Emma Watson won’t recover from JK Rowling’s takedown

30 September 2025 8:08 pm

JK Rowling has broken her silence on Emma Watson. And if I were the Harry Potter actress, I would lie…

Who were the real bigots in Epping?

25 September 2025 2:42 am

Imagine if, following the rape charges against Harvey Weinstein, a mob of angry people had rallied to his defence. Imagine…

Forget Palestine – when will Starmer recognise Britain?

23 September 2025 1:55 am

Who does Keir Starmer think he’s kidding? There he is in that glossy video imperiously decreeing there should be a…

Led By Donkeys’s Trump stunt is their lamest yet

18 September 2025 10:02 pm

Has there ever been a lamer protest group than Led By Donkeys? I’m old enough to remember when protest was…

The killing of Charlie Kirk is an assault on America itself

11 September 2025 6:05 pm

He was wearing a t-shirt that said ‘Freedom’. A one-word rallying cry emblazoned in black across his chest. It was…

The usual suspects were curiously quiet about Iryna Zarutska’s brutal murder

11 September 2025 3:30 pm

Did Iryna Zarutska’s life matter? Judging by the delayed, sheepish media coverage of her killing in North Carolina last month,…

The persecution of Graham Linehan

3 September 2025 2:36 am

I have been lamenting Britain’s authoritarian turn for years. Yet even I was taken aback, physically repulsed in fact, by…

Migrant protests and the twilight of luxury beliefs

27 August 2025 3:45 pm

There are dark whispers on the internet about Britain’s coming ‘race war’. The protests outside migrant hotels prove the ‘native…

It feels good to see the return of the St George’s Cross

19 August 2025 10:27 pm

There you have it: in certain parts of England it’s easier to fly the Palestine flag than the English flag.…

Uefa’s ‘Stop killing children’ banner isn’t fooling anyone

15 August 2025 2:48 am

Who does Uefa think it’s kidding? It says the huge banner saying ‘Stop killing children’ unfurled at a Super Cup…

I’m embracing my inner Karen

11 August 2025 4:00 pm

I told off four strangers last week. The first was a foreign gentleman lounging on a side lawn at Marble…

The West has rewarded Hamas for the torture of Evyatar David

4 August 2025 4:52 pm

They’re making Jews dig their own graves again. In grim mimicry of their Nazi heroes, who would often force Jews…

Edinburgh Fringe is becoming a Jew-free zone

28 July 2025 8:36 pm

Is the Edinburgh Fringe a Judenfrei zone now? With just a week to go before the Fringe kicks off, Jewish…

James O’Brien has disgraced himself

24 July 2025 12:46 am

For a man who wrote a book called How To Be Right, James O’Brien sure gets a lot wrong. Consider…

The shamelessness of Diane Abbott

18 July 2025 9:21 pm

Labour was dead right to suspend Diane Abbott. Britain is experiencing one of the worst eruptions of anti-Jewish hatred in…

Why is Bob Vylan free but Lucy Connolly in prison?

5 July 2025 3:33 pm

So now we know. Now we know that Bob Vylan’s sick chant at Glastonbury was not a colourfully worded call…

Glastonbury has become a sinister festival of anti-Semitism

29 June 2025 10:53 pm

They’re chanting for the death of Jews at Glastonbury. Yesterday a swaying mob of faux-virtuous poseurs blithely howled for ‘Death,…

Zohran Mamdani and the Hipster Intifada

26 June 2025 12:14 am

I see Generation Intifada has a new hero. Those rich white kids who never leave the house without their keffiyeh…

How dare Sally Rooney ‘admire’ Palestine Action

24 June 2025 2:20 am

I’m old enough to remember when it was neo-Nazis who smashed up Jewish-owned businesses. Now it’s so-called progressives. Not long…

The establishment was more afraid of ‘the gammon’ than the groomers

17 June 2025 10:26 pm

‘When history is written as it ought to be written’, said the great Trinidadian Marxist CLR James, ‘it is the…

Did Greta Thunberg refuse to watch the October 7 video?

10 June 2025 10:06 pm

Did Greta Thunberg refuse to watch footage of Hamas’s 7 October atrocities? That’s the accusation being made by Israel’s defence…

Leo Varadkar and the real story of the Imane Khelif gender scandal

8 June 2025 4:10 pm

Remember when Leo Varadkar egged on someone with male strength who was punching women in the face? It sounds made up,…

Ireland has been consumed by hatred of Israel

2 June 2025 4:57 pm

A new religion blights the Republic of Ireland. Catholicism has been supplanted by a far more cultish creed. Its doctrines…

Why did the Met arrest a Jewish man for mocking Hezbollah?

25 May 2025 12:06 am

It’s the 21st century and Jews are being arrested for making fun of fascists. The Telegraph has revealed that last…

The UN’s claim about babies dying in Gaza is unravelling

22 May 2025 3:33 am

Just when you thought Israel couldn’t be any more evil, yesterday we learned that thousands of babies are set to…