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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/85/ 'My miserabilists of the year'], ''Spiked'', 4 January 2006.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/165/ 'Try the detosh diet'], ''Spiked'',  6 January 2006.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/158/ 'What Kennedy and Galloway tell us about politics now'], ''Spiked'', 9 January 2006.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/149/ 'I’m Not Really a Politician, Vote for Me…'], ''Spiked'', 13 January 2006.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/132/ 'Who will vet the vetters?'], ''Spiked'', 20 January 2006.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/91/ 'Whatever happened to the anti-war movement?'], ''Spiked'', 27 January 2006.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/102/ 'Euthanasia and the grisly theatre of death'], ''Spiked'', 27 January 2006.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/93/ 'Free speech, not ‘Me! Me! Me! speech’], ''Spiked'', 3 February 2006.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/24/ 'Those cartoons: a caricatured argument'], ''Spiked'', 6 February 2006.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/20/ 'How could this ranting crank ‘brainwash’ anybody?'], ''Spiked'', 10 February 2006.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/117/ 'Why Labour begrudges grammar schools'], ''Spiked'', 17 February 2006.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/142/ 'Animal testing: Qui vive?'], ''Spiked'', 24 February 2006.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/228/ 'Irving and Livingstone: what liberal backlash?'], ''Spiked'', 2 March 2006.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/231/ 'Iraq: stop the shroud-waving'], ''Spiked'', 3 March 2006.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/244/ 'Jowell: when the political gets too personal'], ''Spiked'', 9 March 2006.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/245/ 'Let war commence over nuclear power'], ''Spiked'', 10 March 2006.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/29/ 'State funding is no solution for bankrupt political parties'], ''Spiked'', 23 March 2006.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/28/ 'Why would anyone donate to these parties of the living dead anyway?'], ''Spiked'', 24 March 2006.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/283/ 'The politics of abuse, and the abuse of politics'], ''Spiked'', 13 April 2006.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/211/ 'I will never vote for a leader who makes an ethical spectacle of himself'], ''Spiked'', 24 April 2006.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/208/ 'Noel Edmonds and the cult of positivity'], ''Spiked'', 2 May 2006.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/55/ 'When control freaks lose it and spindoctors twist in the wind'], ''Spiked'', 4 May 2006.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/69/ 'Roo-mournia and the dashing of Great White Hopes'], ''Spiked'', 9 May 2006.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/308/ 'The decline of New Labour and the rise of no-party politics'], ''Spiked'', 9 May 2006.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/309/ 'Welcome to the new-look spiked'], ''Spiked'', 23 May 2006.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/362/ 'World Cup: now it’s the Football of Fear'], ''Spiked'', 6 June 2006.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/386/ Paranoid about the ‘risk supporter’], ''Spiked'', 8 June 2006.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/391/ 'The war on terror self-destructs'], ''Spiked'', 14 June 2006.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/9135/ 'World Cup - the new political football'], ''Spiked'', 14 June 2006.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/399/ ‘Now children, put yourselves in Osama’s shoes…’], ''Spiked'', 16 June 2006.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/420/ 'The politics of a paedophile panic'], ''Spiked'', 21 June 2006.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/443/ 'From Sarah’s Law to Sven’s Law: politicians desperate to connect'], ''Spiked'', 23 June 2006.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/909/ 'A rights kerfuffle'], ''Spiked'', 28 June 2006.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/922/ 'Charlie and the Chocolate Panic'], ''Spiked'', 30 June 2006.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/937/ 'I’m sorry, but we shouldn’t make Rooney apologise if he’s not sorry'], ''Spiked'', 6 July 2006.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/941/ '7/7: a year on, darkness and confusion still reign'], ''Spiked'',  7 July 2006.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/1012/ 'What next for humanity? Closing the survey, opening the debate'], ''Spiked'', 11 July 2006.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/1021/ 'Take off your green-tinted glasses and get real'], ''Spiked'', 14 July 2006.
  
 
===Living Marxism/LM===
 
===Living Marxism/LM===

Revision as of 08:22, 1 May 2012

LM network resources

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 [1] 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. [2] 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. [3] 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.[4] 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. [5][6]

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."[7]


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."[8]

Affiliations

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

Spiked

2001

2002

2003

2004

2005

2006

Living Marxism/LM

1988

1989

1990

1991

1992

1993

1994

1995

1996

1997

Living Marxism became LM at issue 97 in February 1997.

1998

1999

2000

Resources, References and Contact


References

  1. Talking About My Generation The Times 30 Dec 2008
  2. Bobby Sands was nobody's victim Spiked, 28 Oct 2008
  3. [Mick Hume moves on - new editor for Spiked Spiked, 29 Jan 2007
  4. Don Milligan, Radical Amnesia and the RCP, Reflections of a Renegade, January 8, 2008.
  5. Speakers Battle of Ideas, acc 13 Mar 2011 and is a source of briefing material for Debating Matters.
  6. Mick Hume Debating Matters website, 13 Mar 2011
  7. Speakers' biographies", Communicating the war on terror conference website, 5 June 2003, accessed 16 July 2009
  8. Andy Beckett, Licence to rile, The Guardian, 15 May 1999, accessed 27 April 2010
  9. From the Battle of Ideas Festival 2007: biography (Accessed: 14 May 2008)
  10. http://replay.waybackmachine.org/20071019084210/http://www.riskoffreedom.com/pdf_archive/07brief.pdf