Brendan O'Neill

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

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…

‘Korangate’ and Britain’s new blasphemy rules

27 February 2023 5:44 pm

Imagine living in a country so religiously uptight that even making a smudge on a copy of the Koran could…

Kate Forbes isn’t homophobic for opposing same-sex marriage

22 February 2023 9:31 pm

Let me get this right. In Scotland’s political class it is de rigueur to believe that someone with a penis…

The rewriting of Roald Dahl is an act of cultural vandalism

19 February 2023 9:57 pm

The vandals have come for Roald Dahl. His books for children are to be cleansed of their ‘offensive’ content. Sensitivity…

The sinister celebrification of Shamima Begum

7 February 2023 7:07 pm

So is Shamima Begum a celebrity now? She was splashed on the front page of the Times’ Magazine over the…

Shame on the Cardinal Pell funeral protesters

3 February 2023 12:08 am

In Sydney today, the LGBT movement had its Westboro Baptist Church moment. It protested at someone’s funeral. Like that cranky…

The Sunak seatbelt row is a pathetic ‘scandal’

20 January 2023 9:47 pm

Remember when Britain knew how to do a good political scandal? Secretaries of State sharing showgirls with Soviet attachés. A…

Nicola Sturgeon and the truth about ‘transphobia’

18 January 2023 1:24 am

This is a shameful week for Scottish nationalism. Let us state plainly what has happened: the government in Westminster has…

The war on JK Rowling

13 January 2023 11:27 pm

The crusade to erase JK Rowling continues. The latest ruse of the Rowlingphobes is to scrub her name from her…

Prince Harry has done something unforgivable

7 January 2023 5:30 pm

I’m just going to say it: I’m Team William. In that scrap that Prince Harry says happened at Nottingham Cottage,…

What unites Greta Thunberg and Andrew Tate

31 December 2022 8:21 pm

So, are you Team Tate or Team Thunberg? Do you side with the muscled misogynist who has convinced tragic TikTok…

Can Jeremy Clarkson’s critics take a joke?

20 December 2022 12:44 am

There is always a tipping point in Twitterstorms. A moment at which the digital hysteria over something somebody said becomes…

The Twitter Files show Donald Trump should never have been banned

14 December 2022 4:20 am

The latest Twitter Files revelations are the most disturbing yet. They show how the employees of this private company, not…

When will Harry and Meghan leave us alone?

7 December 2022 5:00 pm

Is anyone else starting to feel harassed by Harry and Meghan? There’s no escaping them. Open Spotify and there they…

The Palace has treated Lady Hussey cruelly

1 December 2022 10:21 pm

On the Lady Susan Hussey affair – is anyone else more horrified by the Palace’s behaviour than Lady Hussey’s? Yes,…

Baddielphobia and the ugly truth about anti-Semitism

23 November 2022 5:54 pm

David Baddiel could not have asked for better evidence for his thesis that ‘Jews don’t count’ than the online reaction…

What happened to Stephen Fry’s belief in scientific reason?

21 November 2022 1:47 am

Here’s my question for Stephen Fry after he said his trans friends had felt ‘deeply upset’ by some of the…

Trumpism is dead, long live populism!

10 November 2022 9:47 pm

Donald Trump is done for. Trumpism too. That’s the main takeaway of the Midterms. Many of the candidates Trump backed…

What's wrong with being an apocalypse denier?

29 October 2022 5:15 pm

This week, on BBC radio, I made a confession: I am a denier. Not a climate-change denier – an apocalypse…