Brendan O'Neill

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Brendan O'Neill is associated with the libertarian anti-environmental LM network. In particular, he has written for LM magazine, is editor of internet magazine Spiked, co-founded the anti-regulatory Manifesto Club and has spoken at the Battle of Ideas, the Leeds Salon and the Manchester Salon. He has written for Rising East, which is edited by Andrew Calcutt.

From Jan 2011, he wrote a regular blog for the Telegraph.

From the Battle of Ideas biography:

Brendan O’Neill is the editor of spiked. He started his career in journalism at spiked‘s predecessor, Living Marxism, until it was forced to close in 2000 following a notorious libel action brought by ITN.
When he’s not writing for and editing spiked, and commissioning journalists who have something to say and the guts to say it, O’Neill writes widely for publications on both sides of the Atlantic. His journalism has been published in the New Statesman, the Spectator, the Guardian, The Sunday Times, the British Journalism Review, the Press Gazette and the Catholic Herald in Britain, and in Salon, Slate, the Chicago Sun-Times, the American Prospect, the American Conservative and Reason magazine in the United States. He is also a feature-writer for the Christian Science Monitor in America and for the BBC in Britain. He writes a weekly blog for the Guardian website, Comment Is Free.
He is a British correspondent for the Polish political weekly PrzeKroj, and has written for newspapers and magazines in Australia, South Africa, Canada, India, Germany, France, Italy and Denmark. His work covers everything from war and terrorism to free speech and junk food. He was a consultant for the book Human, published by Dorling Kindersley and winner of the British Medical Association Medical Book Award 2005. (continues)

Affiliations

• Spiked Online | Manifesto Club | Forth Magazine

Publications

• From Bosnia to Beslan, Pluto Press May 28 2006
• Can I Recycle My Granny and 39 Other Eco-Dilemmas, Hodder & Stoughton, 2008 (as Ethan Greenhart)

Contact

Blog "Freedom Rules"

Personal website "Brendan O'Neill"

References

IDale, Iain and Yasmin Alibhai-Brown "Crosstalk video interview"

Datoo, Siraj, "Interview", "The Student Journals", 27 October 2010

Guardian "Articles for the Guardian"

Alex Lockwood Five reasons Brendan O'Neill is wrong Alexlockwood.net website 15 July 2008

Andrew Newman More on the intellectual laziness of the RCP Socialist Unity website 10 March 2007