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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/6694/ 'The sermon on the compost heap'], ''Spiked'', 3 March 2003.
 
*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/6694/ 'The sermon on the compost heap'], ''Spiked'', 3 March 2003.
 
*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/6683/ 'Bush: scared of his own shadow?'], ''Spiked'', 11 March 2003.
 
*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/6683/ 'Bush: scared of his own shadow?'], ''Spiked'', 11 March 2003.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/6477/ 'War heroes or hapless victims?'], ''Spiked'', 31 March 2003.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/6466/ 'It’s a propaganda war, but not as we know it'], ''Spiked'', 3 April 2003.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/6456/ 'Sad Dad'], ''Spiked'', 9 April 2003.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/6263/ 'War in Iraq: a political stunt?'], ''Spiked'', 14 April 2003.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/6245/ 'Weapon of Moral Deliverance'], ''Spiked'', 22 April 2003.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/6589/ 'America’s identity crisis'], ''Spiked'', 24 April 2003.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/5644/ 'Blair’s hardest battle is for hearts and minds in Britain'], ''Spiked'', 2 May 2003.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/5643/ 'Disciplining adults'], ''Spiked'', 6 May 2003.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/5631/ 'Dead body politics'], ''Spiked'', 12 May 2003.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/5621/ 'Who wants to live under a system of Organised Paranoia?'], ''Spiked'', 15 May 2003.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/5614/ 'Blowing al-Qaeda out of proportion'], ''Spiked'', 19 May 2003.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/5319/ 'Making war a war crime'], ''Spiked'', 27 May 2003.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/5277/ 'People don’t believe Blair - or anybody else'], ''Spiked'', 5 June 2003.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/5269/ 'Why Fergie’s out of favour'], ''Spiked'', 12 June 2003.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/5252/ 'Who wants a stress-free life?'], ''Spiked'', 24 June 2003.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/5241/ 'Down with the ‘slippery slope’ argument'], ''Spiked'', 27 June 2003.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/5239/ 'A right royal Charlie'], ''Spiked'', 30 June 2003.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/5073/ 'Health chiefs use kids as sticks to beat us'], ''Spiked'', 9 July 2003.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/5063/ 'It’s the authority crisis, stupid'], ''Spiked'', 11 July 2003.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/5061/ 'Addiction addicts'], ''Spiked'', [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/4810/ 'Politics isn’t brutal enough'], ''Spiked'', 29 July 2003.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/4812/ 'Why sunburn is not a burning issue'], ''Spiked'', 29 July 2003.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/4799/ 'Heaven protect us'], ''Spiked'', 4 August 2003.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/4786/ 'Why should we trust leaders who believe in nothing?'], ''Spiked'',  8 August 2003.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/4785/ 'Buying justice for Omagh?'], ''Spiked'', 11 August 2003.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/4755/ 'Hutton’s ‘transparency’ is a threat to democracy'], ''Spiked'', 26 August 2003.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/4757/ 'The Decline and Faliraki of civilisation?'], ''Spiked'', 26 August 2003.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/4749/ 'Hutton and the celebrity victims'], ''Spiked'', 1 September 2003.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/4739/ 'Conspiracy theories and political ignorance'], ''Spiked'', 8 September 2003.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/4727/ 'The danger of making politics a dirty word'], ''Spiked'', 11 September 2003.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/4689/ 'Unhealthy obsessions'], ''Spiked'', 17 September 2003.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/4680/ 'The abuse excuse'], ''Spiked'', 22 September 2003.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/4648/ 'If there is no alternative to this, we’re all in reverse'], ''Spiked'', 3 October 2003.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/4647/ 'Rape, rumours and justice'], ''Spiked'', 6 October 2003.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/4616/ 'Have we all gone football crazy?'], ''Spiked'', 9 October 2003.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/4612/ 'Can we have our ball back please?'], ''Spiked'', 13 October 2003.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/4600/ 'Out of his box'], ''Spiked'', 20 October 2003.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/4587/ 'The phoney moral crusade against racism'], ''Spiked'', 24 October 2003.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/4586/ 'A dopey debate'], ''Spiked'',  27 October 2003.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/4572/ 'Listless Britain'], ''Spiked'', 3 November 2003.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/4543/ 'Ghost ship scare holds no water'], ''Spiked'', 13 November 2003.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/4545/ 'The more they talk about ‘choice’, the less we get'], ''Spiked'', 13 November 2003.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/4536/ 'Rugby and union?'], ''Spiked'', 17 November 2003.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/4535/ 'Anti-Bush protests: the personal is not political'], ''Spiked'', 19 November 2003.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/4524/ 'Terrorising ourselves'], ''Spiked'', 24 November 2003.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/4449/ 'Top-up fees and useless degrees'], ''Spiked'', 1 December 2003.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/4435/ 'Hollow victory parade'], ''Spiked'', 5 December 2003.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/4434/ 'Celebrity anti-abortionist'], ''Spiked'', 8 December 2003.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/4423/ 'Phoney rebellions against Blair’s empty policies'], ''Spiked'', 12 December 2003.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/4409/ ‘Loopholes’ and liberties], ''Spiked'', 19 December 2003.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/4403/ 'Noel, no faith, no fun'], ''Spiked'', 22 December 2003.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/4391/ 'Why be paranoid about puppy fat?'], ''Spiked'', 30 December 2003.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/4395/ 'No Honour among worthies'], ''Spiked'', 30 December 2003.
  
 
===Living Marxism/LM===
 
===Living Marxism/LM===

Revision as of 14:00, 30 April 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

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