Mick Hume

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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 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. 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. 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. 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.

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."

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."

Affiliations

• Spiked editor-at-large | Lanesborough Luncheons Speaker September 2000 at this Japan Tobacco International funded event

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

• Mick Hume, Televictims - emotional correctness in the media AD (After Diana), LM magazine, 1998.

Living Marxism/LM

1988

• Mick Hume, 'The Living and the Dead', Living Marxism, November 1988, No. 1, p. 4-5.

1989

• Mick Hume, 'Do we need a new constitution?', Living Marxism, No. 3 - January 1989, p. 4-5.
• Mick Hume 'Gerry Adams interview', Living Marxism, No. 3 - January 1989, p. 26-30.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: Twenty things they don't won't you to know about the Libyan chemical weapons scare', Living Marxism - No. 4 - February 1989, p. 4.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: The one-party state', Living Marxism, No. 5 - March 1989, p. 4.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: Defend the right to be offensive', Living Marxism, No. 6 - April 1989, p. 4.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: Gorbachev should get a job on the Sunday Telegraph', Living Marxism, No. 7 - May 1989, p. 4.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: We are talking terror', Living Marxism, No. 8 - June 1989, p. 4.
• Mick Hume, 'The politics', Living Marxism, No. 8 - June 1989, p. 8.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: China - an advert for revolution', Living Marxism, No. 9 - July 1989, p. 4.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: The people who applaud the IRA', Living Marxism, No. 10 - August 1989, p. 4.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: Who won?', Living Marxism, No. 11 - September 1989, p. 4.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: 'Free us from the Free World', Living Marxism, No. 12 - October 1989, p. 4.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: Socialist - the new all purpose insult', Living Marxism, No. 13 - November 1989, p. 4.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: the end of the decayed', Living Marxism, No. 14 - December 1989, p. 4.

1990

• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: Confessions of a communist', Living Marxism, No. 15 - January 1990, p. 4.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: Making a revolution', Living Marxism, No. 16 - February 1990, p. 4.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: How can you call yourself a Marxist?', Living Marxism, No. 17 - March 1990, p. 4.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial', Living Marxism, No. 18 - April 1990, p. 4.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: The riots - left and right unite and fight', Living Marxism, No. 19 - May 1990, p. 4.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: There is no future in the Union Jack', Living Marxism, No. 20 - June 1990, p. 4.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: The New Enlightenment starts here', Living Marxism, No. 21 - July 1990, p. 4.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: Two-party politics in a one-party state', Living Marxism, No. 22 - August 1990, p. 4.
• Mick Hume, 'Why the poll tax is not a class issue', Living Marxism, No. 22 - August 1990, p. 36.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: Hands off the Gulf', Living Marxism, No. 23 - September 1990, p. 4.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: Imperialism is alive - and kicking', Living Marxism, No. 24 - October 1990, p. 4.
• Mick Hume, 'Ten things you should know about the Gulf crisis', Living Marxism, No. 24 - October 1990, p. 10.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: The New Age of Imperialism', Living Marxism, No. 25 - November 1990, p. 4.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: Europe is only the tip of the Tories' iceberg', Living Marxism, No. 26 - December 1990, p. 4.

1991

• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: No more Mr Nice Guy', Living Marxism, No. 27 - January 1991, p. 4.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: For what?', Living Marxism, No. 28 - February 1991, p. 4.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: How the West has lost', Living Marxism, No. 29 - March 1991, p. 4.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: After Iraq, who's next?', Living Marxism, No. 30 - April 1991, p. 4.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: The Walter Mitty Tendency and the poll tax', Living Marxism, No. 31 - May 1991, p. 4.
• Mick Hume, 'Whatever happened to the working class?', Living Marxism, No. 31 - May 1991, p. 18.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: The myth of the White Man's burden', Living Marxism, No. 32 - June 1991, p. 4.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: Towards 2000 - a time for revolutionary ideas', Living Marxism, No. 33 - July 1991, p. 4.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: Scum politics', Living Marxism, No. 34 - August 1991, p. 4.
• Mick Hume, 'Liverpool: Who's to blame', Living Marxism, No. 34 - August 1991, p. 8.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: If Marxism is dead, why to they keep digging it up?', Living Marxism, No. 35 - September 1991, p. 4.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: The West plays wordgames while the East burns', Living Marxism, No. 36 - October 1991, p. 4.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: There's only one party in it', Living Marxism, No. 36 - November 1991, p. 4.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: What's so good about Western civilisation?', Living Marxism, No. 38 - December 1991, p. 4.

1992

• Mick Hume, 'Editorial', Living Marxism, No. 39 - January 1992, p. 4.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial', Living Marxism, No. 40 - February 1992, p. 4.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: the construction of the Islamic Bomb', Living Marxism, No. 41 - March 1992, p. 4.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: Is this it?', Living Marxism, No. 42 - April 1992, p. 4.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: end of an era', Living Marxism, No. 43 - May 1992, p. 4.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: A few home truths', Living Marxism, No. 44 - June 1992, p. 4.
• Mick Hume, 'Abolish the monarchy', Living Marxism, No. 44 - June 1992, p. 20.
• Mick Hume , 'Editorial: Perot, the Danes and the 'end of politics', Living Marxism, No. 45 - July 1992, p. 4.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: No Western Solution' Living Marxism, No. 47 - September 1992, p. 4.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: A Manifesto Against Militarism', Living Marxism, No. 48 - October 1992, p. 4.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: Kraut-bashing: the British disease', Living Marxism, No. 49 - November 1992, p. 4.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: The meek inherit nothing', Living Marxism, No. 50 - December 1992, p. 4.

1993

• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: Upturns and turnips', Living Marxism, No. 51 - January 1993, p. 4.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: 'Rape camps', Living Marxism, No. 52 - February 1993, p. 4.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: Tell it like it is ', Living Marxism, No. 53 - March 1993, p. 4.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: Frightening the life out of us', Living Marxism, No. 54 - April 1993, p. 4.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: Ban nothing', Living Marxism, No. 55 - May 1993, p. 4.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: From the Falklands to Bosnia', Living Marxism, No. 56 - June 1993, p. 4.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: The new authoritarianism', Living Marxism, No. 57 - July 1993, p. 4.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: Peacekeeping means imperialism ', Living Marxism, No. 58 - August 1993, p. 4.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: The state declares war on single mothers', Living Marxism, No. 59 - September 1993, p. 4.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: Here is the unhappy news', Living Marxism, No. 60 - October 1993, p. 4.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: Warlords and hardliners; You can't ban bad news', Living Marxism, No. 61 - November 1993, p. 4-6.
• Mick Hume, 'Editorial: Peace off Britain', Living Marxism, No. 62 - December 1993, p. 4.

Resources, References and Contact

• Andy Beckett, Licence to rile, The Guardian, 15 May 1999, accessed 27 April 2010
• Hume, Mick, Mick Hume moves on - new editor for Spiked Spiked, 29 Jan 2007
• Spiked, Articles by Mick Hume Spiked, acc 13 Mar 2011
• Times, Articles by Mick Hume The Times, acc 13 Mar 2011