Spiked - Revision history

S Ross: Addition of recent Koch link reported by Monbiot

2019-01-07T19:19:51Z

Addition of recent Koch link reported by Monbiot

S Ross: New address

2014-10-25T20:26:07Z

New address

S Ross at 21:41, 17 December 2013

2013-12-17T21:41:14Z

Matthew Pringle: spiked advert added

2013-09-18T16:54:00Z

spiked advert added

Melissa Jones: typo

2013-09-02T01:35:20Z

typo

Melissa Jones at 11:45, 28 August 2012

2012-08-28T11:45:30Z

Melissa Jones at 11:44, 28 August 2012

2012-08-28T11:44:07Z

S Ross at 20:44, 16 December 2011

2011-12-16T20:44:25Z

S Ross at 18:55, 7 December 2011

2011-12-07T18:55:56Z

Matthew Pringle: LM Network menu added

2011-11-16T16:55:33Z

LM Network menu added

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	Spiked Ltd. lost money in 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009. In October 2009, Spiked appealed to its readers for funds to help it keep going. In 2011, Spiked again lost money and shareholder funds moved into the red. <ref> Companies House, Spiked Ltd. Abbreviated (Unaudited) Accounts 2011</ref>		Spiked Ltd. lost money in 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009. In October 2009, Spiked appealed to its readers for funds to help it keep going. In 2011, Spiked again lost money and shareholder funds moved into the red. <ref> Companies House, Spiked Ltd. Abbreviated (Unaudited) Accounts 2011</ref>
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		+	More recently, Spiked received significant funds from the [[Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation]].<ref>[http://amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/dec/07/us-billionaires-hard-right-britain-spiked-magazine-charles-david-koch-foundation/labelling_How US billionaires are fuelling the hard-right cause in Britain] Guardian website, acc 7 Jan 20189</ref>

	==Publications, Resources, references and contact==		==Publications, Resources, references and contact==

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 ===Contact===
 :Website: [http://www.spiked-online.com/ www.spiked-online.com]  (Accessed 21 August 2007)
-:Address: spiked, Signet House, 49-51 Farringdon Road, London, EC1M 3JP
+:Address: spiked, 27 Holywell Row, London EC2A 4JB
 :Tel: +44 (0)207 40 40 470
 :Email: general-enquiries@spiked-online.com

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 [[File:Spiked logo.gif|thumb|left|200px| Logo of [[Spiked]], a core element of the [[LM network]], circa 2011.]]
 {{Powerbase:LM network: Resources}}
-''Spiked'' is part of the libertarian anti-environmental [[LM network]]. It is an online magazine currently edited by [[Brendan O'Neill]] and previously by ''Times'' columnist [[Mick Hume]]. Spiked is a private company limited by shares with seven staff and an annual turnover of about £175,000.<ref>Companies House,Spiked Ltd. Financial Statement 2009</ref>  Its directors are [[Helene Guldberg]] (company secretary and managing editor, previously co-publisher of [[LM]]) and [[Frank Furedi]].  The great majority of the shares in the company Spiked Ltd, which has the same address as that of Spiked magazine and which runs Spiked magazine, are held by Frank Furedi and [[Jennie Bristow]].<ref>Companies House, Spiked Ltd. AR01 Annual Return 2010</ref><ref>[http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/about/article/326/ Support Spiked], Spiked, acc 29 May 2010</ref>
+''Spiked'' is part of the libertarian anti-environmental [[LM network]]. It is an online magazine currently edited by [[Brendan O'Neill]] and previously by ''Times'' columnist [[Mick Hume]]. Spiked is a private company limited by shares with, in 2010, seven staff and an annual turnover of about £175,000.<ref>Companies House,Spiked Ltd. Financial Statement 2009</ref>  For subsequent years, the directors have chosen to file only abbreviated accounts.  According to the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, the advantage of abbreviated accounts has been perceived to be that only limited information will be available on public record.  Its directors are [[Helene Guldberg]] (company secretary and managing editor, previously co-publisher of [[LM]]) and [[Frank Furedi]].  The great majority of the shares in the company Spiked Ltd, which has the same address as that of Spiked magazine and which runs Spiked magazine, are held by Frank Furedi and [[Jennie Bristow]].<ref>Companies House, Spiked Ltd. AR01 Annual Return 2010</ref><ref>[http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/about/article/326/ Support Spiked], Spiked, acc 29 May 2010</ref>
 According to Alexa, the web information company, Spiked was the 12,013th most popular website in the UK in June 2010. As of August 2012 it ranked 21,998th. <ref>"[http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/spiked-online.com# spiked-online.com]", Alexa website, accessed 9 June 2010</ref><ref>"[http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/spiked-online.com# spiked-online.com]", Alexa website, accessed 28 August 2012</ref>

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 ==Debates on the environment==
+[[File:Early advert for spiked magazine.JPG|thumb|right|200px| An early advert for ''Spiked'' published in Last Magazine, Summmer 2000.]]
 Spiked has also run a series of online debates about the environment sponsored by the [[Natural Environment Research Council]] (NERC), a UK public funding body whose mission is to support independent scientific research in the environmental sciences. One of the series was a debate on GM called "The future of GM"<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20040519220441/http://www.spiked-online.com/Sections/Science/Debates/GM/ Spiked Science Debates: The future of GM], Spiked, 16 Sept 2002, version placed in web archive 19 May 04 (Accessed in web archive 25 May 2010)</ref>. It features the opinions of "five experts" ([[Les Firbank]], [[Tony Gilland]], [[Robin Grove-White]], [[Gregory Conko]] and [[CS Prakash]]) together with three "Commissioned responses" from other "experts" ([[Alan Gray]], [[John Conroy]], and the [[Agricultural Biotechnology Council]]). Of these eight experts only one has been known to take a critical attitude towards the technology, and it would seem incompatible with NERC's aim to obtain "independent" and "impartial" input.   However, when the history of those behind Spiked was brought to NERC's attention, Marion O'Sullivan, the Press Officer, replied that:
 :"NERC is satisfied that '''there is no evidence''' suggesting that, on environmental matters, Spiked have any particular agenda." (emphasis added)<ref>Marion O'Sullivan in an email to GMWatch, September 2002, archived [http://ngin.tripod.com/180902a.htm here]</ref>

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 [[File:Spiked logo.gif|thumb|left|200px| Logo of [[Spiked]], a core element of the [[LM network]], circa 2011.]]
 {{Powerbase:LM network: Resources}}
-''Spiked''' is part of the libertarian anti-environmental [[LM network]]. It is an online magazine currently edited by [[Brendan O'Neill]] and previously by ''Times'' columnist [[Mick Hume]]. Spiked is a private company limited by shares with seven staff and an annual turnover of about £175,000.<ref>Companies House,Spiked Ltd. Financial Statement 2009</ref>  Its directors are [[Helene Guldberg]] (company secretary and managing editor, previously co-publisher of [[LM]]) and [[Frank Furedi]].  The great majority of the shares in the company Spiked Ltd, which has the same address as that of Spiked magazine and which runs Spiked magazine, are held by Frank Furedi and [[Jennie Bristow]].<ref>Companies House, Spiked Ltd. AR01 Annual Return 2010</ref><ref>[http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/about/article/326/ Support Spiked], Spiked, acc 29 May 2010</ref>
+''Spiked'' is part of the libertarian anti-environmental [[LM network]]. It is an online magazine currently edited by [[Brendan O'Neill]] and previously by ''Times'' columnist [[Mick Hume]]. Spiked is a private company limited by shares with seven staff and an annual turnover of about £175,000.<ref>Companies House,Spiked Ltd. Financial Statement 2009</ref>  Its directors are [[Helene Guldberg]] (company secretary and managing editor, previously co-publisher of [[LM]]) and [[Frank Furedi]].  The great majority of the shares in the company Spiked Ltd, which has the same address as that of Spiked magazine and which runs Spiked magazine, are held by Frank Furedi and [[Jennie Bristow]].<ref>Companies House, Spiked Ltd. AR01 Annual Return 2010</ref><ref>[http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/about/article/326/ Support Spiked], Spiked, acc 29 May 2010</ref>
 According to Alexa, the web information company, Spiked was the 12,013th most popular website in the UK in June 2010. As of August 2012 it ranked 21,998th. <ref>"[http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/spiked-online.com# spiked-online.com]", Alexa website, accessed 9 June 2010</ref><ref>"[http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/spiked-online.com# spiked-online.com]", Alexa website, accessed 28 August 2012</ref>

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 ''Spiked''' is part of the libertarian anti-environmental [[LM network]]. It is an online magazine currently edited by [[Brendan O'Neill]] and previously by ''Times'' columnist [[Mick Hume]]. Spiked is a private company limited by shares with seven staff and an annual turnover of about £175,000.<ref>Companies House,Spiked Ltd. Financial Statement 2009</ref>  Its directors are [[Helene Guldberg]] (company secretary and managing editor, previously co-publisher of [[LM]]) and [[Frank Furedi]].  The great majority of the shares in the company Spiked Ltd, which has the same address as that of Spiked magazine and which runs Spiked magazine, are held by Frank Furedi and [[Jennie Bristow]].<ref>Companies House, Spiked Ltd. AR01 Annual Return 2010</ref><ref>[http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/about/article/326/ Support Spiked], Spiked, acc 29 May 2010</ref>
-According to Alexa, the web information company, Spiked was the 12,013th most popular website in the UK in 2010. As of August 2012 it ranked 21,998th. <ref>"[http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/spiked-online.com# spiked-online.com]", Alexa website, accessed 9 June 2010</ref><ref>"[http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/spiked-online.com# spiked-online.com]", Alexa website, accessed 28 August 2012</ref>
+According to Alexa, the web information company, Spiked was the 12,013th most popular website in the UK in June 2010. As of August 2012 it ranked 21,998th. <ref>"[http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/spiked-online.com# spiked-online.com]", Alexa website, accessed 9 June 2010</ref><ref>"[http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/spiked-online.com# spiked-online.com]", Alexa website, accessed 28 August 2012</ref>
 Spiked was launched in 2000 after the magazine Hume edited, LM, was terminated after unsuccessfully defending a libel lawsuit. Helene Guldberg's co-publisher, [[Claire Fox]], launched Spiked's sister organisation, the [[Institute of Ideas]] (IoI) around the same time. The staff and many of Spiked's contributors are members of the same network of [[Living Marxism]]/[[Revolutionary Communist Party]] supporters.  Its offices were previously the offices of the Revolutionary Communist Party and then LM and are at the same address as the IoI.

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 [[Ben Atfield]] | [[Geraldine Atfield]] | [[Simon Belt]] | [[Colin Berry]] | [[Simon Best]] | [[Sonja Boehmer-Christiansen]] | [[Frank Cassidy]] | [[Fiona Cleary]] | [[Dave Clements]] | [[Ceri Dingle]] | [[John Fitzpatrick]] | [[Dieter Hamblock]] | [[Stuart Hibbin]] | [[Ged Hession]] | [[Jon Holbrook]] | [[Ashley Johnstone]] | [[Joe Kaplinsky]] | [[Rob Killick]] | [[Simon Knight]] | [[Rose Landthaller]] | [[Michele Ledda]] | [[Ellie Lee]] | [[Peter Martin]] | [[Keith McCabe]] | [[Jonathan Meads]] | [[Alan Miller]] | [[Matt Ridley]] | [[Paul Reeves]] | [[Hilary Salt]] | [[Marco Santucci]] | [[Helen Searls]] | [[Jon Sowerby]] | [[Keith Teare]] | [[Mark Tyson]] | [[Paul Wight]] | [[James Woudhuysen]]
 ==Funding==
-In October 2009, Spiked appealed to its readers for funds to help it keep going.  Spiked state<ref>"[http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/about/article/340 Spiked partners and sponsors]", Spiked website, accessed 3 May 2010</ref> that current and former partners and sponsors include:  |  [[Arts Council England]] |  [[Bloomberg]]  |  [[British Association for the Advancement of Science]] |  [[British Council]] |  [[BT]] |  [[Cadbury Schweppes]] |  [[Cambridge University Press]] |  [[Cheltenham Science Festival]] |  [[Colubris Networks]] |  [[City of London]] |  [[Clarke Mulder Purdie]] |  Continuum International Publishing Group |  Dana Centre |  European Commission research project RightsWatch |  [[EuroScience]] |  [[Hill and Knowlton]] |  [[IBM]] |  [[INFORM]] |  [[Institute for the International Education of Students]] |  [[Institute of Psychiatry]] |  [[International Policy Network]] |  [[Luther Pendragon]] |  [[Medical Research Council]] |  [[Mobile Operators Association]] |  [[National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts]] |  [[Natural Environment Research Council]] |  [[Orange]] |  [[O2]] |  [[Pfizer]] |  [[Royal Institution]] of Great Britain |  [[Social Issues Research Centre]] |  [[Society of Chemical Industry]] |  [[Tech Central Station]] |  [[University of East London]] |  [[Wellcome Trust]]
+Spiked state<ref>"[http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/about/article/340 Spiked partners and sponsors]", Spiked website, accessed 3 May 2010</ref> that current and former partners and sponsors include:  |  [[Arts Council England]] |  [[Bloomberg]]  |  [[British Association for the Advancement of Science]] |  [[British Council]] |  [[BT]] |  [[Cadbury Schweppes]] |  [[Cambridge University Press]] |  [[Cheltenham Science Festival]] |  [[Colubris Networks]] |  [[City of London]] |  [[Clarke Mulder Purdie]] |  Continuum International Publishing Group |  Dana Centre |  European Commission research project RightsWatch |  [[EuroScience]] |  [[Hill and Knowlton]] |  [[IBM]] |  [[INFORM]] |  [[Institute for the International Education of Students]] |  [[Institute of Psychiatry]] |  [[International Policy Network]] |  [[Luther Pendragon]] |  [[Medical Research Council]] |  [[Mobile Operators Association]] |  [[National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts]] |  [[Natural Environment Research Council]] |  [[Orange]] |  [[O2]] |  [[Pfizer]] |  [[Royal Institution]] of Great Britain |  [[Social Issues Research Centre]] |  [[Society of Chemical Industry]] |  [[Tech Central Station]] |  [[University of East London]] |  [[Wellcome Trust]]
 ==Publications, Resources, references and contact==

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 ==Publications, Resources, references and contact==
-[[File:Mayes-restraint.jpg|thumb|right|200px|''Restraint of Revelation'', published by [[Spiked]] in 2002 and written by [[Tessa Mayes]] of the [[LM network]]]]
+[[File:Mayes-restraint.jpg|thumb|right|200px|''Restraint or Revelation'', published by [[Spiked]] in 2002 and written by [[Tessa Mayes]] of the [[LM network]]]]
 ===Publications===
 *[http://www.spiked-online.com/pdf/spiked_RestraintOrRevelation.pdf Restraint or revelation? Free speech and privacy in a confessional age]. A spiked-report by [[Tessa Mayes]]. 22 October 2002