Brendan O'Neill

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

Sadiq Khan’s racial dystopia

22 August 2023 12:19 am

Imagine if the Mayor of London was a Tory and his website featured an image of a black family alongside…

What does it take to get you cancelled at the Edinburgh Fringe?

16 August 2023 8:25 pm

So, let me get this right: at the Edinburgh Fringe, comedians who make jokes about killing and raping women are welcome, but…

The truth about ‘gender-affirming care’

9 August 2023 8:52 pm

‘My breasts were taken away from me (and) the tissue was incinerated.’ Every word of destransitioner Chloe Cole’s testimony to…

Barbie

Barbie’s critics are the real snowflakes

25 July 2023 11:38 pm

Hold on: I thought it was the wimpish new left that loses its rag over ‘offensive’ culture. Aren’t snowflakes usually…

The trouble with Keir Mather

22 July 2023 1:03 am

Every time I cross paths – or swords – with a cranky student activist, I have the same thought: ‘Oh…

How did Trans Pride allow itself to become a front for misogyny?

11 July 2023 12:52 am

On Saturday, in Trafalgar Square, a man called for violence against women. Specifically, it seems, intellectually curious women, those unruly…

Biden’s ‘Orwellian’ social media crackdown

6 July 2023 2:42 am

Joe Biden cannot be trusted to protect the American people’s freedom of speech. He needs to be restrained, by law,…

Does the TUC understand what the word ‘mum’ means?

30 June 2023 10:00 pm

Imagine if, in 1868, when the TUC was founded, someone had told those warriors for workers’ rights that one day…

The shameful condemnation of the Titan Five

23 June 2023 9:55 pm

The five departed souls of the Titan submersible suffered two tragedies. First, the tragedy of dying in a catastrophic implosion…

In defence of Howard Donald

18 June 2023 10:47 pm

The mob has claimed another scalp. This time it’s Howard Donald’s. The Take That star has been found guilty of…

The troubling truth about Boris’s partygate inquisition

16 June 2023 1:28 am

There is something faintly ridiculous about the Privileges Committee’s report on partygate. Sixteen pages in, you encounter the following sentence:…

The nasty side of Pride

10 June 2023 5:00 pm

For a month that’s supposed to be all about love and acceptance, Pride has a pretty nasty streak. Maybe that’s…

Prince Harry the Tyrannical

9 June 2023 4:00 pm

It is often said that Prince Harry is a ‘New Royal’. Emotionally literate, racially aware, eco-friendly (except when he’s flying…

The censorship didn’t begin with Kathleen Stock

1 June 2023 3:34 am

It’s 2023 and a lesbian requires security guards to speak at the Oxford Union. That image of Kathleen Stock arriving…

We need to talk about Just Stop Oil’s class privilege

24 May 2023 3:32 am

I have never felt such a strong desire to buy a man a pint as I did when I watched…

Does Harry and Meghan’s car chase story add up?

18 May 2023 9:51 pm

Anyone who has ever visited New York City will be scratching their heads over Harry and Meghan’s claims about a…

The emasculation of Sinn Fein

4 May 2023 1:23 am

The right needs to calm down about Sinn Fein. It needs to chill out about the fact that the party’s…

Is Dominic Raab really a ‘bully’?

21 April 2023 10:49 pm

Who is the real victim in the Dominic Raab bullying saga? I know the story is that he was a…

How dare William Hague lecture the Women’s Institute on trans rights

19 April 2023 11:06 pm

I see it is acceptable again for men to tell women what to do. And to snap ‘Get over it!’…

Riley Gaines and the misogyny of the trans-activist mob

8 April 2023 3:05 am

The misogynist mob strikes again. Its target this time was the American swimmer Riley Gaines. What was her offence? What…

Is the cult of victimhood turning violent? 

29 March 2023 11:13 pm

This week I read the most extraordinary and chilling statement. It was issued by a fringe group called the Trans Resistance Network.…

The shameful persecution of Posie Parker in New Zealand

26 March 2023 12:29 am

This is what it must have been like when women were marched to the stake. Yesterday in Auckland the British…

Barbie Kardashian and Ireland’s trans madness

23 March 2023 1:59 am

Why are politicians so incapable of answering basic questions about biology? Yesterday it was Taoiseach Leo Varadkar’s turn. A journalist…

The Lineker row isn’t about free speech – it’s a moral coup

11 March 2023 8:00 am

So the cancel-culture set believes in free speech now? What a turnaround. People who have spent the past decade turning…

Gary Lineker’s virtue signalling has finally gone too far

9 March 2023 12:33 am

The worst thing about Gary Lineker’s intervention in the small boats discussion is not whether he broke BBC rules on…