Mick Hume

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Mick Hume is associated with the libertarian and anti-environmentalist LM network.

Mick Hume in 2007 or 2008

Hume was born in 1959 and raised in Woking, attending Woking County Grammar School for Boys and studying American Studies in Manchester University. His first left-wing political act was, as a student in Manchester in 1981, supporting Irish Republican hunger strikers, alongside protesting against alleged police racism during that summer's Moss Side riots. He is a journalist and erstwhile organiser of the Revolutionary Communist Party where he was editor of the weekly paper The Next Step from January 1987. In 1988, he became the founding editor of the party's monthly magazine Living Marxism for which he wrote both under his own name and under the pseudonym Eddie Veale. In 1997, following the dissolution of the RCP, the magazine was relaunched under his editorship as LM. Following the magazine's bankruptcy in a libel trial, he become the founding editor of its successor Spiked in 2001. He resigned from this post in 2007 in favour of Brendan O'Neill but continues to write for Spiked. He also speaks at the Battle of Ideas.

He has written a column for the Times (London) since 2000.

According to his biography on the "Communicating the war on terror" conference website:

Mick Hume is the editor of spiked and a columnist for The Times (London) and a regular contributor to other publications. He was the editor of LM Magazine (which he launched, originally as Living Marxism, in 1988) until it was forced to close in 2000 following a libel suit brought by ITN. Hume is a fortysomething ex-grammar school boy from Woking, who went to Manchester University and still has a season ticket at Old Trafford."

Encounter

In 1999, journalist Andy Beckett went to a Living Marxism-organised conference that Hume attended. Beckett interviewed Hume about his background and observed:

he rehearses the LM worldview: the globe is "at the end of a political cycle of left and right"; class, once the foundation of all left-wing thinking, "is not a political factor"; there is "no alternative to the market". Instead, the LM project has evolved into "reclaiming the human subject". ...

What Hume is reluctant to mention is that, until three years ago, Living Marxism was the official journal of a more obscure organisation: the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP). After a long, uncharacteristic pause, and a certain amount of looking at the floor, Hume admits that he "spent 10 years in the RCP". What about the other staff of LM? "The network of people I live and work with contain lots of people who were members of the RCP…" Hume tries to sound casual. "I didn't think you were going to write about the RCP and all that."

Affiliations

• Spiked editor-at-large | Lanesborough Luncheons Speaker September 2000 at this Japan Tobacco International funded event

Publications

Pamphlets and Books

1996

• Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels The Communist Manifesto (Living Marxism Originals), Introduction by Mick Hume London: Pluto Press; New edition (15 May 1996) ISBN-10: 0745310338 ISBN-13: 978-0745310336

1997

• Whose War is it Anyway? The Dangers of the Journalism of Attachment InformInc (LM) Ltd (July 1997)

1998

• Mick Hume, Televictims - emotional correctness in the media AD (After Diana), LM magazine, 1998.

Spiked

2001

• Mick Hume, 'One thing that did not change in 2001', Spiked, 28 December 2001.
• Mick Hume, 'Judging us all', Spiked, 17 December 2001.
• Mick Hume, 'Sarah’s Law can’t protect us from fear', Spiked, 14 December 2001.
• Mick Hume, 'Bore us no more about sleaze, please', Spiked, 7 December 2001.
• Mick Hume, 'Nation-building? Let’s start at home', Spiked, 26 November 2001.
• Mick Hume, 'How did we get from Manhattan to Kabul?', Spiked, 16 November 2001.
• Mick Hume, 'The more they talk about ‘choice’, the less we get', Spiked, 13 November 2001.
• Mick Hume, 'Are we all meant to be Mujahideen now?', Spiked, 12 November 2001.
• Mick Hume, 'A war that nobody wants to fight', Spiked, 9 November 2001.
• Mick Hume, 'Muslim alienation has home-grown roots', Spiked, 6 November 2001.
• Mick Hume, 'Oh, what a ‘wobbly’ war', Spiked, 30 October 2001.
• Mick Hume, 'Propaganda defensive', Spiked, 22 October 2001.
• Mick Hume, 'Fear and defeatism infect the West', Spiked, 16 October 2001.
• Mick Hume, 'Now it is war - but for what?', Spiked, 8 October 2001.
• Mick Hume, 'Why has Bush not pushed the button?', Spiked, 28 September 2001.
• Mick Hume, 'It’s war - but against whom?', Spiked, 14 September 2001.
• Mick Hume, 'After the attack on America', Spiked, 12 September 2001.
• Mick Hume, 'Whoever wins, it won’t be a Tory', Spiked, 5 September 2001.
• Mick Hume, 'Are university degrees worthless?', Spiked, 17 August 2001.
• Mick Hume, 'Asylum: the immigration laws are mad', Spiked, 10 August 2001.
• Jennie Bristow, Mick Hume, Ray Crowley, Fran O’Leary, 'The apathy debate', Spiked, 26 July 2001.
• Mick Hume, 'Final verdict: We know who lost, but who won?Final verdict: We know who lost, but who won?', Spiked, 26 July 2001.
• Mick Hume, 'Defend the Right to Make the Wrong Choices', Spiked, 11 July 2001.
• Mick Hume, 'Who’s to blame for Bradford?', Spiked, 9 July 2001.
• Mick Hume, 'More to it than Milosevic', Spiked, 29 June 2001.
• Mick Hume, 'Put liberty first in New Labour’s second term', Spiked, 22 June 2001.
• Mick Hume, 'After the election', Spiked, 7 June 2001.
• Mick Hume, 'A landslide that signifies nothing', Spiked, 4 June 2001.
• Mick Hume, 'Blair wins - so why is New Labour so nervous?', Spiked, 25 May 2001.
• Mick Hume, 'Some last words on that libel trial', Spiked, 24 May 2001.
• Mick Hume, 'Shopping for cut-price votes', Spiked, 17 May 2001.
• Mick Hume, 'Politics is important - voting isn’t', Spiked, 11 May 2001.
• Mick Hume, 'Inspire us with some new tunes', Spiked, 8 May 2001.
• Mick Hume, 'People’s peers: why not abolish the lot?', Spiked, 1 May 2001.
• Mick Hume, 'Direct action and dire ideas', Spiked, 26 April 2001.
• Mick Hume, 'Macpherson report: keeping our wits about us', Spiked, 20 April 2001.
• Mick Hume, 'Cook plays the curry card', Spiked, 20 April 2001.
• Mick Hume, 'Don’t mention the election', Spiked, 12 April 2001.
• Mick Hume, 'The strange affair of the election that never was', Spiked, 2 April 2001.
• Mick Hume, 'Modern life? It’s the best yet', Spiked, 29 March 2001.
• Mick Hume, 'An outbreak of anti-election fever', Spiked, 22 March 2001.
• Mick Hume, 'Things fall apart', Spiked, 15 March 2001.
• Mick Hume, 'Why not a No Sermonising Day?', Spiked, 13 March 2001.

Living Marxism/LM

1988

• Mick Hume, 'The Living and the Dead', Living Marxism, November 1988, No. 1, p. 4-5.

1989

• Mick Hume, 'Do we need a new constitution?', Living Marxism, No. 3 - January 1989, p. 4-5.
• Mick Hume 'Gerry Adams interview', Living Marxism, No. 3 - January 1989, p. 26-30.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: Twenty things they don't won't you to know about the Libyan chemical weapons scare', Living Marxism - No. 4 - February 1989, p. 4.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: The one-party state', Living Marxism, No. 5 - March 1989, p. 4.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: Defend the right to be offensive', Living Marxism, No. 6 - April 1989, p. 4.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: Gorbachev should get a job on the Sunday Telegraph', Living Marxism, No. 7 - May 1989, p. 4.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: We are talking terror', Living Marxism, No. 8 - June 1989, p. 4.
• Mick Hume, 'The politics', Living Marxism, No. 8 - June 1989, p. 8.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: China - an advert for revolution', Living Marxism, No. 9 - July 1989, p. 4.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: The people who applaud the IRA', Living Marxism, No. 10 - August 1989, p. 4.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: Who won?', Living Marxism, No. 11 - September 1989, p. 4.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: 'Free us from the Free World', Living Marxism, No. 12 - October 1989, p. 4.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: Socialist - the new all purpose insult', Living Marxism, No. 13 - November 1989, p. 4.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: the end of the decayed', Living Marxism, No. 14 - December 1989, p. 4.

1990

• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: Confessions of a communist', Living Marxism, No. 15 - January 1990, p. 4.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: Making a revolution', Living Marxism, No. 16 - February 1990, p. 4.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: How can you call yourself a Marxist?', Living Marxism, No. 17 - March 1990, p. 4.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial', Living Marxism, No. 18 - April 1990, p. 4.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: The riots - left and right unite and fight', Living Marxism, No. 19 - May 1990, p. 4.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: There is no future in the Union Jack', Living Marxism, No. 20 - June 1990, p. 4.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: The New Enlightenment starts here', Living Marxism, No. 21 - July 1990, p. 4.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: Two-party politics in a one-party state', Living Marxism, No. 22 - August 1990, p. 4.
• Mick Hume, 'Why the poll tax is not a class issue', Living Marxism, No. 22 - August 1990, p. 36.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: Hands off the Gulf', Living Marxism, No. 23 - September 1990, p. 4.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: Imperialism is alive - and kicking', Living Marxism, No. 24 - October 1990, p. 4.
• Mick Hume, 'Ten things you should know about the Gulf crisis', Living Marxism, No. 24 - October 1990, p. 10.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: The New Age of Imperialism', Living Marxism, No. 25 - November 1990, p. 4.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: Europe is only the tip of the Tories' iceberg', Living Marxism, No. 26 - December 1990, p. 4.

1991

• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: No more Mr Nice Guy', Living Marxism, No. 27 - January 1991, p. 4.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: For what?', Living Marxism, No. 28 - February 1991, p. 4.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: How the West has lost', Living Marxism, No. 29 - March 1991, p. 4.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: After Iraq, who's next?', Living Marxism, No. 30 - April 1991, p. 4.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: The Walter Mitty Tendency and the poll tax', Living Marxism, No. 31 - May 1991, p. 4.
• Mick Hume, 'Whatever happened to the working class?', Living Marxism, No. 31 - May 1991, p. 18.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: The myth of the White Man's burden', Living Marxism, No. 32 - June 1991, p. 4.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: Towards 2000 - a time for revolutionary ideas', Living Marxism, No. 33 - July 1991, p. 4.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: Scum politics', Living Marxism, No. 34 - August 1991, p. 4.
• Mick Hume, 'Liverpool: Who's to blame', Living Marxism, No. 34 - August 1991, p. 8.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: If Marxism is dead, why to they keep digging it up?', Living Marxism, No. 35 - September 1991, p. 4.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: The West plays wordgames while the East burns', Living Marxism, No. 36 - October 1991, p. 4.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: There's only one party in it', Living Marxism, No. 36 - November 1991, p. 4.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: What's so good about Western civilisation?', Living Marxism, No. 38 - December 1991, p. 4.

1992

• Mick Hume, 'Editorial', Living Marxism, No. 39 - January 1992, p. 4.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial', Living Marxism, No. 40 - February 1992, p. 4.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: the construction of the Islamic Bomb', Living Marxism, No. 41 - March 1992, p. 4.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: Is this it?', Living Marxism, No. 42 - April 1992, p. 4.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: end of an era', Living Marxism, No. 43 - May 1992, p. 4.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: A few home truths', Living Marxism, No. 44 - June 1992, p. 4.
• Mick Hume, 'Abolish the monarchy', Living Marxism, No. 44 - June 1992, p. 20.
• Mick Hume , 'Editorial: Perot, the Danes and the 'end of politics', Living Marxism, No. 45 - July 1992, p. 4.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: No Western Solution' Living Marxism, No. 47 - September 1992, p. 4.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: A Manifesto Against Militarism', Living Marxism, No. 48 - October 1992, p. 4.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: Kraut-bashing: the British disease', Living Marxism, No. 49 - November 1992, p. 4.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: The meek inherit nothing', Living Marxism, No. 50 - December 1992, p. 4.

1993

• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: Upturns and turnips', Living Marxism, No. 51 - January 1993, p. 4.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: 'Rape camps', Living Marxism, No. 52 - February 1993, p. 4.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: Tell it like it is ', Living Marxism, No. 53 - March 1993, p. 4.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: Frightening the life out of us', Living Marxism, No. 54 - April 1993, p. 4.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: Ban nothing', Living Marxism, No. 55 - May 1993, p. 4.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: From the Falklands to Bosnia', Living Marxism, No. 56 - June 1993, p. 4.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: The new authoritarianism', Living Marxism, No. 57 - July 1993, p. 4.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: Peacekeeping means imperialism ', Living Marxism, No. 58 - August 1993, p. 4.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: The state declares war on single mothers', Living Marxism, No. 59 - September 1993, p. 4.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: Here is the unhappy news', Living Marxism, No. 60 - October 1993, p. 4.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: Warlords and hardliners; You can't ban bad news', Living Marxism, No. 61 - November 1993, p. 4-6.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: Peace off Britain', Living Marxism, No. 62 - December 1993, p. 4.

1994

• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: Let's get serious', Living Marxism, No. 63 - January 1994, p. 4.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: The moral of the story', Living Marxism, No. 64 - February 1994, p. 4.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: In defence of freedom', Living Marxism, No. 65 - March 1994, p. 4.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: The heroic General and the pathetic Major', Living Marxism, No. 66 - April 1994, p. 4.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: Pornography for patriots', Living Marxism, No. 67 - May 1994, p. 4.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: Anniversary fatigue', Living Marxism, No. 68 - June 1994, p. 4.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: Who needs controls?', Living Marxism, No. 69 - July 1994, p. 4.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: No more Hiroshimas', Living Marxism, No. 70 - August 1994, p. 4.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: An age of evil?', Living Marxism, No. 71 - September 1994, p. 4.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: Between the lines of the bill', Living Marxism, No. 72 - October 1994, p. 4.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: So what is left now?', Living Marxism, No. 73 - November 1994, p. 4.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: Who gets the pay-off?', Living Marxism, No. 74 - December 1994, p. 4.

1995

• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: The use of abuse', Living Marxism, No. 75 - January 1995, p. 4.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: Labour would be even worse', Living Marxism, No. 76 - February 1995, p. 4.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: Eric Cantona and the thought police', Living Marxism, No. 77 - March 1995, p. 4.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: Girls and boys', Living Marxism, No. 78 - April 1995, p. 4.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: War and peace, then and now', Living Marxism, No. 79 - May 1995, p. 4.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: What's a war crime between friends?', Living Marxism, No. 80 - June 1995, p. 4.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: A revolutionary project for our times', Living Marxism, No. 81 - July/August 1995, p. 4.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: Would you believe them?', Living Marxism, No. 82 - September 1995, p. 4.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: Who can you trust?', Living Marxism, No. 83 - October 1995, p. 4.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: Time to face facts', Living Marxism, No. 84 - November 1995, p. 4.
• Mick Hume, 'A killjoy's and loser's guide to the lottery', Living Marxism, No. 85 - December 1995, p. 18.

1996

• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: All you need is love?', Living Marxism, No. 86 - January 1996, p. 4.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: Why mad cows are bigger than EMU', Living Marxism, No. 87 - February 1996, p. 4.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: Genocide, war crimes and propaganda', Living Marxism, No. 88 - March 1996, p. 4.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: Time to judge for ourselves', Living Marxism, No. 89 - April 1996, p. 4.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: What's wrong with masculinity?', Living Marxism, No. 90 - May 1996, p. 4.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: The new inquisition', Living Marxism, No. 91 - June 1996, p. 4.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: Forget poverty, let's talk about the real issues', Living Marxism, No. 92 - July/August 1996, p. 4.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: A manifesto for our times', Living Marxism, No. 93 - September 1996, p. 4.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: Whatever happened to the heroes?', Living Marxism, No. 94 - October 1996, p. 4.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: New Danger', Living Marxism, No. 95 - November 1996, p. 4.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: Ban these evil spoons', Living Marxism, No. 96 - December/January 1996/1997, p. 4.

1997

Living Marxism became LM at issue 97 in February 1997.

• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: Whatever happened to freedom?', LM 100, p. 4, May 1997.
• Mick Hume and Helen Searls, 'LM v ITN: There are camps, and there are concentration camps', LM 101, p. 20, June 1997.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: Return of the Left? Err, Right', LM 102, p. 4, July/August 1997.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: The age of the ethically correct death squad', LM 103, September 1997, p. 4.
• Mick Hume, 'Blair's Britain AD - After Diana', LM 104, October 1997.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: Year of the victim, LM 106, p. 4, December 1997/January 1998.

1998

• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: Free speech wars', LM 107, p. 4, February 1998.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: The return of Marx (& Spencer)', LM 108, p. 4, March 1998.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: Never mind passive smoking, the problem is passive living', LM 109, p. 4, April 1998.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: Ghoul Britannia', LM 110, p. 4, May 1998.
• Mick Hume, 'The libertarian parent's dilemma', LM 110, May 1998.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: A man's game?', LM 111, p. 4, June 1998.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: RIP PC? You ain't seen nothing yet', LM 112, p. 4, July/August 1998.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial', LM 113, p. 4, September 1998.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: Stop the sobbing', LM 114, October 1998, p. 4.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: Forget the left, the issue is freedom', LM 115, November 1998, p. 4.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: Heard the one about LM and the South African millionaire?', LM 116, p. 4, December/January 1998/1999.
• Mick Hume, 'The truth about LM', LM 116, p. 22, December/January 1998/1999.

1999

• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: Kick against the pricks', LM 117, p. 4, February 1999.
• Mick Hume, 'Reading between the lines', LM 117, p. 43, February 1999.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: What about the right to be offensive?', LM 118, p. 4, March 1999.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: Keeping our wits about us', LM 119, p. 4, April 1999.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: 'Bomber' Blair's crusade',LM 120, p. 4, May 1999.
• Mick Hume, 'Genocide: what's in a word?', LM 120, p. 8, May 1999.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: If the Kosovo crisis didn't exist, Blair would have to invent it', LM 121, p. 4, June 1999.
• Mick Hume, 'NATO in denial?', LM 121, p. 26, June 1999.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: A case of domestic violence in Kosovo', LM 122, p. 4, July/August 1999.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: Wandering lonely as a cloud', LM 123, p. 4, September 1999.
• Mick Hume, 'Kosovo: the first therapeutic war', LM 123, p. 18, September 1999.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: Save us from preachy prime ministers and backsliding bishops', LM 124, p. 4, October 1999.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: One party state? Don't talk libertarian nonsense', LM 125, p. 4, November 1999.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: It is the best of times to be alive. Ever', LM 126, p. 4, December/January 1999/2000.
• Mick Hume, 'Kosovo: who buried the evidence?', LM 126, p. 31, December/January 1999/2000.

2000

• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: Exploiting the Holocaust', LM 127, p. 4, February 2000.
• Mick Hume, 'Setting the record straight', LM 128, p. 4, March 2000.
• Mick Hume, 'The only thing this case has proved 'beyond reasonable doubt' is that English libel law is a disgrace to democracy and a menace to a free press', LM 129, p. 4, April 2000.

Resources, References and Contact

• Andy Beckett, Licence to rile, The Guardian, 15 May 1999, accessed 27 April 2010
• Hume, Mick, Mick Hume moves on - new editor for Spiked Spiked, 29 Jan 2007
• Spiked, Articles by Mick Hume Spiked, acc 13 Mar 2011
• Times, Articles by Mick Hume The Times, acc 13 Mar 2011