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*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/Opinion/2010/0729/Free-Tibet-from-China-and-the-West-too 'Free Tibet from China – and the West, too'], ''The Christian Science Monitor'', 29 July 2010.
 
*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/Opinion/2010/0729/Free-Tibet-from-China-and-the-West-too 'Free Tibet from China – and the West, too'], ''The Christian Science Monitor'', 29 July 2010.
 
*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/down-on-the-upside/ 'Down on the Upside'], ''The American Conservative'', 1 August 2010.
 
*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/down-on-the-upside/ 'Down on the Upside'], ''The American Conservative'', 1 August 2010.
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*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/9495/ 'Turning the pope into an Antichrist for atheists'], ''Spiked'', 7 September 2010.
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*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/9502/ 'Meadows, please come back to the future '], ''Spiked'', 9 September 2010.
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*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/9548/ 'How the New Atheists are abusing the truth'], ''Spiked'', 13 September 2010.
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*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/9556/ 'Come out from under the comfort blanket of class politics'], ''Spiked'', 15 September 2010.
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*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/9583/ 'The White Atheists’ Burden: save the savages'], ''Spiked'', 16 September 2010.
 
*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spectator.co.uk/the-magazine/features/6273373/drunk-and-orderly.thtml 'Drunk and orderly'], ''The Spectator'', 18 September 2010.
 
*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spectator.co.uk/the-magazine/features/6273373/drunk-and-orderly.thtml 'Drunk and orderly'], ''The Spectator'', 18 September 2010.
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*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/9598/ ‘Pope Benedict is an enemy of the state’], ''Spiked'', 20 September 2010.
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*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/9618/ 'Hands off our testicles!'], ''Spiked'', 22 September 2010.
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*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/reviewofbooks_article/9629/ 'The case against Geoffrey Robertson'], ''Spiked'', 24 September 2010.
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*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/9658/ 'A make-believe leader for a make-believe party'], ''Spiked'', 27 September 2010.
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*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/9716/ 'Let’s make the ‘human footprint’ even bigger'], ''Spiked'', 30 September 2010.
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*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/9740/ 'Geoffrey Robertson’s ‘humanitarian’ infallibility'], ''Spiked'', 1 October 2010.
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*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/9750/ 'There’s nothing Enlightened about the new equality law'], ''Spiked'', 5 October 2010.
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*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/9758/ Well, that proves Cameron is not the ‘new Thatcher’], ''Spiked'', 7 October 2010.
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*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/9785/ 'Chile: solidarity wins out over psychobabble'], ''Spiked'', 13 October 2010.
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*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/9780/ The welfare state is not our ‘guardian angel’], ''Spiked'', 14 October 2010.
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*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/9795/ 'Facebook: the heart in a heartless world'], ''Spiked'', 18 October 2010.
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*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/9801/ 'Five BS arguments that should be cut'], ''Spiked'', 20 October 2010.
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*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/9814/ 'Don’t ban the burqa - but don’t celebrate it, either'], ''Spiked'', 25 October 2010.
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*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/9840/ 'A message to the illiberal Nudge Industry: push off'], ''Spiked'', 1 November 2010.
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*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/9867/ 'Think the Earth is finite? Think again'], ''Spiked'', 8 November 2010.
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*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/9881/ 'A pantomime battle for the soul of America'], ''Spiked'', 11 November 2010.
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*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/9892/ 'Turning New York into a nudgocracy'], ''Spiked'', 15 November 2010.
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*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/9897/ 'When smoking becomes freedom of expression'], ''Spiked'', 16 November 2010.
 
*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2010/nov/16/history-us-politics 'The common sense of Thomas Paine'], ''The Guardian'', 17 November 2010.
 
*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2010/nov/16/history-us-politics 'The common sense of Thomas Paine'], ''The Guardian'', 17 November 2010.
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*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/9902/ 'A Paine in the ass for modern America'], ''Spiked'', 17 November 2010.
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*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/9905/ 'Students are supposed to read books, not burn them '], ''Spiked'', 18 November 2010.
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*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/9916/ 'The Republic of Ireland: colonised by commissioners'], ''Spiked'', 19 November 2010.
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*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/9924/ 'What happens when you opt out of the scanner'], ''Spiked'', 23 November 2010.
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*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/reviewofbooks_article/9940/ 'Our brave new world of Malthusian madmen'], ''Spiked'', 26 November 2010.
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*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/9964/ The tyranny of ‘the public interest’ ], ''Spiked'', 2 December 2010.
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*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/9971/ 'Tax inspectors against capitalism? Now that is rich'], ''Spiked'', 6 December 2010.
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*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/9990/ 'Fees debate: what next for the ‘Harry Potter uprising’?'], ''Spiked'', 9 December 2010.
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*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/9999/ 'Why Wikileaks is now splitting the liberal elite'], ''Spiked'', 14 December 2010.
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*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/10005/ 'Individual liberty is in serious jeopardy'], ''Spiked'', 15 December 2010.
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*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/10011/ 'Our Brave New World of Malthusian madmen'], ''Spiked'', 17 December 2010.
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*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/10018/ There is no ‘right to be a scholar’], ''Spiked'', 22 December 2010.
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*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/10045/ 'RIP Denis Dutton'], ''Spiked'', 29 December 2010.
  
 
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Revision as of 09:25, 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.

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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