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*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/6074/ 'Whose war is it anyway?'], ''Spiked'', 5 January 2009.
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*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/6078/ 'The antithesis of anti-imperialism'], ''Spiked'', 6 January 2009.
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*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/6084/ 'Who made Gaza into a bloody trap?'], ''Spiked'', 8 January 2009.
 
*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.theweek.co.uk/24735/gaza-propaganda-war-escalates-internet 'Gaza propaganda war escalates on the internet'], ''The First Post'', 12 January 2009.
 
*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.theweek.co.uk/24735/gaza-propaganda-war-escalates-internet 'Gaza propaganda war escalates on the internet'], ''The First Post'', 12 January 2009.
 
*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jan/13/george-monbiot-class-war 'This is something worse than class war'], ''The Guardian'', 13 January 2009.
 
*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jan/13/george-monbiot-class-war 'This is something worse than class war'], ''The Guardian'', 13 January 2009.
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*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/6103/ 'Israel, Starbucks and the new irrationalism'], ''Spiked'', 14 January 2009.
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*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/6118/ 'The politics of anti-Zionism'], ''Spiked'', 19 January 2009.
 
*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jan/21/atheist-bus-asa-complaint 'An unenlightened argument'], ''The Guardian'', 21 January 2009.
 
*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jan/21/atheist-bus-asa-complaint 'An unenlightened argument'], ''The Guardian'', 21 January 2009.
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*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/6132/ Now it’s time to put the ‘we’ into ‘Yes we can’], ''Spiked'', 21 January 2009.
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*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/6146/ 'Gaza and the White Journalist’s Burden'], ''Spiked'', 27 January 2009.
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*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/6172/ 'An act of extreme, wilful fecundity?'], ''Spiked'', 2 February 2009.
 
*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2009/02/cohen-liberal-enlightenment 'Pantomime liberals'], ''New Statesman'', 19 February 2009.
 
*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2009/02/cohen-liberal-enlightenment 'Pantomime liberals'], ''New Statesman'', 19 February 2009.
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*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/6284/ 'Jade, Diana and the myth of public hysteria'], ''Spiked'', 23 February 2009.
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*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/6294/ 'The cult of transparency is a threat to democracy'], ''Spiked'', 26 February 2009.
 
*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/mar/03/scotland-scotland 'Scotland's petty prohibition'], ''The Guardian'', 4 March 2009.
 
*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/mar/03/scotland-scotland 'Scotland's petty prohibition'], ''The Guardian'', 4 March 2009.
 
*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/burdening-israel/ 'Burdening Israel'], ''The American Conservative'', 9 March 2009.
 
*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/burdening-israel/ 'Burdening Israel'], ''The American Conservative'', 9 March 2009.
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*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/6337/ 'A downturn in moral values?'], ''Spiked'', 9 March 2009.
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*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/6338/ 'The Zombie IRA'], ''Spiked'', 10 March 2009.
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*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/6352/ 'IRA splinter groups: ghosts from history?'], ''Spiked'', 12 March 2009.
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*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/6365/ 'The state of the Union'], ''Spiked'', 17 March 2009.
 
*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.csmonitor.com/The-Culture/2009/0323/britons-rally-to-save-red-phone-booths 'Britons rally to save red phone booths'], ''The Christian Science Monitor'', 23 March 2009.
 
*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.csmonitor.com/The-Culture/2009/0323/britons-rally-to-save-red-phone-booths 'Britons rally to save red phone booths'], ''The Christian Science Monitor'', 23 March 2009.
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*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/6383/ 'Jade and the tyranny of ‘anti-racism’'], ''Spiked'', 23 March 2009.
 
*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/mar/24/india-tata-peoples-car 'Nano and the rise of eco-imperialism'], ''The Guardian'', 24 March 2009.
 
*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/mar/24/india-tata-peoples-car 'Nano and the rise of eco-imperialism'], ''The Guardian'', 24 March 2009.
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*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/6397/ 'Beware the Freds under the bed!'], '@Spiked'', 26 March 2009.
 
*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/Opinion/2009/0327/p09s02-coop.html 'The Myersons and the meaning of the misery memoir'], ''The Christian Science Monitor'', 27 March 2009.
 
*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/Opinion/2009/0327/p09s02-coop.html 'The Myersons and the meaning of the misery memoir'], ''The Christian Science Monitor'', 27 March 2009.
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*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/6421/ 'Mixing with Malthusians'], ''Spiked'', 1 April 2009.
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*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/6436/ 'A people’s rebellion against the cancer cops?'], ''Spiked'', 7 April 2009.
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*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/6542/ 'Turning Ian Tomlinson into the Princess Diana of protest'], ''Spiked'', 14 April 2009.
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*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/6554/ ‘Smeargate’ and the suicide of the elite'], ''Spiked'', 16 April 2009.
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*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/6564/ 'The 10 craziest things about Boylemania'], ''Spiked'', 21 April 2009.
 
*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.theweek.co.uk/politics/23405/british-press-suffers-case-swine-fever-hysteria 'British press suffers from a case of swine fever hysteria'], ''The First Post'', 6 May 2009.
 
*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.theweek.co.uk/politics/23405/british-press-suffers-case-swine-fever-hysteria 'British press suffers from a case of swine fever hysteria'], ''The First Post'', 6 May 2009.
 
*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://reason.com/archives/2009/05/11/disturbing-the-peace 'Disturbing the Peace'], ''Reason'', 11 May 2009.
 
*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://reason.com/archives/2009/05/11/disturbing-the-peace 'Disturbing the Peace'], ''Reason'', 11 May 2009.
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*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/6648/ 'Turning Gurkhas into a new ‘Victim Race’'], ''Spiked'', 11 May 2009.
 
*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://reason.com/archives/2009/06/01/the-oreilly-factor 'The O'Reilly Factor'], ''Reason'', 1 June 2009.
 
*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://reason.com/archives/2009/06/01/the-oreilly-factor 'The O'Reilly Factor'], ''Reason'', 1 June 2009.
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*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/6973/ 'The implosion of the political class'], ''Spiked'', 1 June 2009.
 
*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.theweek.co.uk/politics/22535/both-china-and-west-have-distorted-truth-about-tiananmen-square-protests-and-massacre 'Both China and the West have distorted the truth about the Tiananmen Square protests and the massacre that followed'], ''The First Post'', 3 June 2009.
 
*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.theweek.co.uk/politics/22535/both-china-and-west-have-distorted-truth-about-tiananmen-square-protests-and-massacre 'Both China and the West have distorted the truth about the Tiananmen Square protests and the massacre that followed'], ''The First Post'', 3 June 2009.
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*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/6987/ 'The shame of the democracy dodgers'], ''Spiked'', 5 June 2009.
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*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/6993/ 'The psycho-politics of a collapsing elite'], ''Spiked'', 8 June 2009.
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*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/7000/ 'The Omagh ruling is bad for all of us'], ''Spiked'', 10 June 2009.
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*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/7001/ 'The hangdog dictator in Downing Street'], ''Spiked'', 11 June 2009.
 
*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cif-green/2009/jun/13/cameron-diaz-malthusian-population 'We've got all the space in the world'], ''The Guardian'', 13 June 2009.
 
*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cif-green/2009/jun/13/cameron-diaz-malthusian-population 'We've got all the space in the world'], ''The Guardian'', 13 June 2009.
 
*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spectator.co.uk/the-magazine/features/3702698/the-gym-where-they-teach-you-how-to-beat-up-chavs.thtml 'The gym where they teach you how to beat up chavs'], ''The Spectator'', 17 June 2009.
 
*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spectator.co.uk/the-magazine/features/3702698/the-gym-where-they-teach-you-how-to-beat-up-chavs.thtml 'The gym where they teach you how to beat up chavs'], ''The Spectator'', 17 June 2009.
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*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/7109/ 'Labour: the ghost of government past'], ''Spiked'', 2 July 2009.
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*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/7136/ 'Who’s afraid of billions of people?'], ''Spiked'', 9 July 2009.
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*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/7147/ 'Rip up the RIP Act'], ''Spiked'', 13 July 2009.
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*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/7152/ 'Afghanistan: the war for New Labour’s soul'], ''Spiked'', 15 July 2009.
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*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/7160/ ‘Low carbon’ is code for low ambitions], ''Spiked'', 16 July 2009.
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*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/7180/ Older people are more than ‘food for worms’], ''Spiked'', 23 July 2009.
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*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/7193/ 'The by-election that nobody won'], ''Spiked'', 27 July 2009.
 
*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.theweek.co.uk/politics/20935/how-gurkhas-went-pet-warriors-victims 'How the Gurkhas went from pet warriors to victims'], ''The First Post'', 28 July 2009.
 
*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.theweek.co.uk/politics/20935/how-gurkhas-went-pet-warriors-victims 'How the Gurkhas went from pet warriors to victims'], ''The First Post'', 28 July 2009.
 
*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/green-industrial-complex/ 'Green-Industrial Complex'], ''The American Conservative'', 1 August 2009.
 
*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/green-industrial-complex/ 'Green-Industrial Complex'], ''The American Conservative'', 1 August 2009.
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*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/7232/ 'Defend green jobs! Smash ungreen jobs!'], ''Spiked'', 6 August 2009.
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*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/7318/ 'Yes, it’s a return to the dark ages of football...'], ''Spiked'', 27 August 2009.
 
*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://reason.com/archives/2009/07/31/disturbing-the-peace 'Disturbing the Peace'], ''Reason'', August/September 2009.
 
*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://reason.com/archives/2009/07/31/disturbing-the-peace 'Disturbing the Peace'], ''Reason'', August/September 2009.
 
*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cif-green/2009/sep/02/geo-engineering-10-10 'Wearing thermals won't save the planet'], ''The Guardian'', 2 September 2009.
 
*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cif-green/2009/sep/02/geo-engineering-10-10 'Wearing thermals won't save the planet'], ''The Guardian'', 2 September 2009.
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*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/7337/ 'This was a cock-up, not a conspiracy'], ''Spiked'', 3 September 2009.
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*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/7436/ 'Has China had a green ‘Damascene conversion’?'], ''Spiked'', 23 September 2009.
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*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/7464/ 'Refighting the Culture War over Roman Polanski'], ''Spiked'', 29 September 2009.
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*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/7474/ 'Will it be the Sun wot sinks Brown?'], ''Spiked'', 30 September 2009.
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*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/7493/ 'A defeat for the democratic instinct'], ''Spiked'', 5 October 2009.
 
*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spectator.co.uk/the-magazine/features/5402953/authoritarian-chinas-not-a-patch-on-britain.thtml 'Authoritarian? China’s not a patch on Britain'], ''The Spectator'', 7 October 2009.
 
*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spectator.co.uk/the-magazine/features/5402953/authoritarian-chinas-not-a-patch-on-britain.thtml 'Authoritarian? China’s not a patch on Britain'], ''The Spectator'', 7 October 2009.
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*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/7520/ 'How Hillary became Empress of Ireland'], ''Spiked'', 12 October 2009.
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*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/7550/ 'The self-destruction of the House of Commons'], ''Spiked'', 15 October 2009.
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*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/7586/ 'The fight to re-enfranchise the electorate starts here'], '@Spiked'', 19 October 2009.
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*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/7611/ 'The new divide in British politics: Us and Him'], ''Spiked'', 23 October 2009.
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*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/7638/ 'Why they love to hate Mother Teresa'], ''Spiked'', 28 October 2009.
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*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/7661/ 'This ‘revolt of the experts’ is revolting'], ''Spiked'', 2 November 2009.
 
*[[Brendan O'Neill]], http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/7669/ 'American hippies vs the evil Japanese'], ''Spiked'', 4 November 2009.
 
*[[Brendan O'Neill]], http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/7669/ 'American hippies vs the evil Japanese'], ''Spiked'', 4 November 2009.
 
*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/7685/ 'David Nutt is not the new Galileo'], ''Spiked'', 9 November 2009.
 
*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/7685/ 'David Nutt is not the new Galileo'], ''Spiked'', 9 November 2009.

Revision as of 11:32, 31 May 2012

LM network resources
Brendan O'Neill on fora.tv

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

O’Neill grew up in North London as one of five brothers, the eldest being Michael. Like Claire Fox and Fiona Fox, he is a child of Catholic Irish immigrants, in this case from Galway. He attended Catholic schools throughout his education, including St James Catholic High School in Colindale, Barnet, based in a Dominican convent. [1] [2]

He commenced his career in journalism in 1997 at Living Marxism and then LM when it was retitled after the Revolutionary Communist Party was dissolved, until the magazine was forced to close in 2000 after losing a libel trial.[3] [4] He then wrote for its successor Spiked from its foundation in 2000, until in 2007 he took over as editor from founding editor Mick Hume.

As one would expect, his writing is entirely consistent with the LM network’s extreme libertarian and anti-environmental views. While claiming to be an atheist, he regularly defends the Catholic Church from attack.

From Jan 2011, he wrote a regular blog for the Telegraph.[5] Prior to that, he wrote regularly for the Guardian.

From the Battle of Ideas biography:[6]

"Brendan O’Neill is the editor of spiked and author of the green satire Can I Recycle My Granny and 39 Other Eco-Dilemmas, published by Hodder & Stoughton in 2008. He started his career in journalism at spiked‘s predecessor, Living Marxism, then its successor LM, 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.
O’Neill has also been a guest on numerous TV and radio shows in Britain, Ireland and America, including on BBC radio and TV, Sky News, Channel 4 News and The Last Word on More4; The Big Bite on RTE television in Ireland and Talk Radio in Dublin; and on the Heartland show on Fox News and International Correspondents on CNN, and radio stations in New York, San Francisco, Colorado, Wisconsin and Washington, DC. He has given talks at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, the Oxford Literary Festival, the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London and the Battle of Ideas at the Royal College of Art. He was depicted in the play An Explosion, which explored the meaning of terrorism, at the Battersea Arts Centre in London in 2006 (O’Neill was played by actor Jim Pyke). O’Neill also founded and taught the Online Journalism course at the University College for the Creative Arts in Surrey, England."

Affiliations

Publications

Books

  • 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)

Popular press, magazines articles and web publications

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a pity-for-Osama lobby'], Spiked, 6 May 2011.

2012

Contact

Blog "Freedom Rules"
Personal website "Brendan O'Neill"

Resources

Dale, Iain and Yasmin Alibhai-Brown "Crosstalk video interview"
Datoo, Siraj, "Interview", "The Student Journals", 27 October 2010
Greenstein, Tony, "Spiked by Spiked", Socialist Unity, 13 March 2009
Hari, Johann, "Who do we vote for now
Klinger, Max, "Interview", "Varsity, 5 February 2011
Little Atoms, "Video interviews 2006 & 2007
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
Simister, Vicky, "What not to say", Humanist Life, 17 Sep 2010

References

  1. The plane truth The Spectator, 4 Feb 2006
  2. The weird fashion for bashing faith schools Spiked, 23 August 2010
  3. His first article seems to have been: Brendan O'Neill, 'Divided loyalists in Ireland', Living Marxism, No. 80 - June, p. 31.
  4. Last Magazine Marxism-Thaxis, 22 June 2000
  5. Brendan O'Neill, "The Telegraph" acc 11 Mar 2011
  6. Battle of Ideas 2010 festival biography (Accessed: 12 Mar 2011)
  7. About forth, forth website, acc 19 Apr 2010