Brendan O'Neill

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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.

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. 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. Prior to that, he wrote regularly for the Guardian.

From the Battle of Ideas biography:

"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

• Spiked Online | Manifesto Club | Forth Magazine

Publications

• Guardian, "Articles for the Guardian"
• Spiked, "Articles for Spiked"
• Telegraph, "Blog for the Telegraph"

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

1995

• Brendan O'Neill, 'Divided loyalists in Ireland', Living Marxism, No. 80 - June 1995, p. 31.

1996

• Brendan O'Neill, 'Interview with the Northern Ireland Women's Coalition', Living Marxism, No. 93 - September 1996, p. 17.

1997

• Brendan O'Neill, Consensus' by coercion in Northern Ireland', LM 101, p. 14, June 1997.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'The new protocol', LM 104, October 1997.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Second class students', LM 104, p. 28, October 1997.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Northern Ireland: look who's talking', LM 105, p. 32, November 1997.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Mo Mowlam's marching orders', LM 106, p. 26, December 1997/January 1998.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Play with your Croc', LM 106, December 1997/January 1998.

1998

• Brendan O'Neill, 'Down with 'the People's Monarchy', LM 107, p. 35, February 1998.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Reading between the lines', LM 107, p. 43, February 1998.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'After Diana: New religion for old?', LM 108, p. 20, March 1998.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Who's afraid of a five-year old?', LM 109, p. 15, April 1998.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'The Irish Inquisition', LM 109, p. 20, April 1998.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Ireland's Peace of Nothing', LM 110, p. 16, May 1998.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Ha'way the (well-behaved) lads', LM 110, p. 20, May 1998.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Government officials will manipulate media/public', LM 111, p. 16, June 1998.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Is new news bad news?', LM 112, p. 34, July/August 1998.
• Brendan O'Neill and Emily Young, 'Elton gone', LM 113, p. 12, September 1998.
• Jennie Bristow, Kirsten de la Haye, Brendan O'Neill and Justine Brian, 'Lowering higher education', LM 114, October 1998, p. 12.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Cult is a four-letter word', LM 114, October 1998, p. 22.
• Brendan O'Neill, confusions,', LM 116, p. 14, December/January 1998/1999.

1999

• Brendan O'Neill, 'Iraq: war without end', LM 117, p. 20, February 1999.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Get rid of malaria, then DDT', LM 119, p. 34, April 1999.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Are 'leading lads' the new sads?', LM 120, p. 40, May 1999.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Sophie and Edward: royals without royalty', LM 121, p. 14, June 1999.
• Brendan O'Neill and Fenno Outen, 'Male suicide: worrying us to death', LM 122, p. 30, July/August 1999.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Anti-racial tensions in Greenwich', LM 123, p. 10, September 1999.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Dover the top', LM 124, p. 8, October 1999.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'RSPCA: wolf in sheep's clothing', LM 125, p. 8, November 1999.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Taboos: Ireland: 'the child abuse capital of the world', LM 126, p. 8, December/January 1999/2000.

2000

• Brendan O'Neill, 'Making the ordinary extraordinary', LM 127, p. 22, February 2000.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Prisons of the mind', LM 128, p. 14, March 2000.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Counsel estates', LM 129, p. 8, April 2000.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Ireland - no Plan B', LM 129, p. 41, April 2000.

2002

• Brendan O'Neill, 'What kind of antiwar movement is this?', The Christian Science Monitor, 13 December 2002.

2003

• Brendan O'Neill, 'Don't blame the backpacking victims', The Christian Science Monitor, 6 January 2003.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Being antiwar isn't about the oil', The Christian Science Monitor, 23 January 2003.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Is the 'right stuff' wrong?', The Christian Science Monitor, 5 February 2003.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Waging politically correct war: the inoffensive offensive?', The Christian Science Monitor, 26 March 2003.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Occupational therapy', The Christian Science Monitor, 24 April 2003.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Why Britain rains on its own Iraq parade', The Christian Science Monitor, 20 May 2003.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'UK seeing war itself as war crime', The Christian Science Monitor, 11 June 2003.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'US-Brit backslapping or backbiting?', The Christian Science Monitor, 17 July 2003.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Logic behind W. Africa's 'senseless' violence?', The Christian Science Monitor, 11 August 2003.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'How we trained al-Qa’eda', The Spectator, 13 September 2003.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'A missed debate about the Royals', The Christian Science Monitor, 13 November 2003.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'How to scare a US marine', The Spectator, 29 November 2003.

2004

• Brendan O'Neill, 'Uncritical Masses', Reason, January 2004.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Iran's quake: Nothing 'natural' about this disaster', The Christian Science Monitor, 2 January 2004.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Rehashing Diana's tragedy: a conspiracy of dunces', The Christian Science Monitor, 15 January 2004.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Not a shred of evidence', The Spectator, 21 February 2004.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'The missing people-shredder', The Guardian, 25 February 2004.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Bush-bashing: international sport?', The Christian Science Monitor, 2 March 2004.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Another dodgy dossier', The Guardian, 25 March 2004.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Britain debates: to spank or not to spank', The Christian Science Monitor, 19 April 2004.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Suffer the little children', New Statesman, 31 May 2004.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Is it mercenary to join military for perks, not war?', The Christian Science Monitor, 1 June 2004.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Invasion of the lawyers', The Spectator, 10 July 2004.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Unrecorded victims', The Guardian, 21 July 2004.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'People who are just like us', New Statesman, 26 July 2004.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'What a load of b*ll*cks', The Spectator, 31 july 2004.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'The Bosnian connection', New Statesman, 2 August 2004.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Use your mop quietly', New Statesman, 13 September 2004.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'The anti-angry brigade', The Spectator, 23 October 2004.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'How looking for work turns you into a victim', New Statesman, 22 November 2004.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Fighting the ‘good’ fight', The Spectator, 4 December 2004.

2005

• Brendan O'Neill, 'Blogger, Bush-Basher, Bin Laden', Reason, January 2005.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Workers should know their place', New Statesman, 17 January 2005.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'A floating, maybe drowning voter', The Spectator, 12 February 2005.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Premature nostalgia', The Christian Science Monitor, 25 February 2005.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'The snobs hold their noses', New Statesman, 28 March 2005.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Al-Qa’eda is a conspiracy of alienated middle-class kids', The Spectator, 2 April 2005.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'A royal wedding sans tea towels?', The Christian Science Monitor, 7 April 2005.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Losing their religion', The Spectator, 7 May 2005.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'It's no secret: Hung up on memos, antiwar lobby has been ineffective', The Christian Science Monitor, 29 June 2005.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Is Entertainment Objectively Pro-Terrorist?', Reason, August 2005.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'The Iraq war and the politics of grief', The Christian Science Monitor, 16 August 2005.
• Brendan O'Neill, America's "eyes in the skies", New Statesman, 22 August 2005.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Don’t blame the neocons', The Spectator, 27 August 2005.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'The website of death', New Statesman, 5 September 2005.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Fur Flies in PETA Paroxysm', Reason, October 2005.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'The shaming of Britpop', The Spectator, 15 October 2005.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Backstory: Why walk when you can fly?', The Christian Science Monitor, 14 November 2005.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Is Our Empathy Killing Us?', Reason, December 2005.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Why Nato bombed Serb TV', The Spectator, 3 December 2005.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Europe must embrace true free speech', The Christian Science Monitor, 29 December 2005.

2006

• Brendan O'Neill, 'Exploiting genocide', The Spectator, 21 January 2006.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Pressuring the press', The Spectator, 4 February 2006.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'The plane truth', The Spectator, 4 February 2006.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Blue-collar blues', The Spectator, 11 February 2006.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'The man who believes in nothing', New Statesman, 20 February 2006.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Prince Charles should keep political proclivities to himself', The Christian Science Monitor, 6 March 2006.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Comment on: Toilet talk', The Spectator, 25 March 2006.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'That Oxford demo: where was the left?', New Statesman, 6 March 2006.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'An illness or an excuse?', The Spectator, 18 March 2006.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Wrong number', New Statesman, 27 March 2006.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Let Iran have the bomb', The Guardian, 31 March 2006.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'The anti-imperialism of fools', The Guardian, 3 April 2006.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'United in their differences', New Statesman, 3 April 2006.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'In British politics, intrigue emerges as king', The Christian Science Monitor, 5 April 2006.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'What about free speech for footballers?', The Guardian, 7 April 2006.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Human beings are not attack dogs', The Guardian, 7 April 2006.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Shock and gore', The Guardian, 12 April 2006.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Rebranding immigration', The Guardian, 21 April 2006.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'The real cowboys', The Guardian, 25 April 2006.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'The Shocking Truth About Osama bin Laden', Reason, May 2006.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Genocide? What genocide?', The Guardian, 4 May 2006.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Backstory: Monkey see, monkey dial', The Christian Science Monitor, 4 May 2006.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Jamie leaves a nasty aftertaste', New Statesman, 8 May 2006.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Anyone but Gordon', The Guardian, 11 May 2006.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'I love cheap flights', The Guardian, 19 May 2006.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Backstory: Green-thumbed guerrillas hatching secret plots!', The Christian Science Monitor, 23 May 2006.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'East of Euston', The Guardian, 25 May 2006.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Ticket to deride', The Guardian, 5 June 2006.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Understanding Britain's 7/7 attacks', The Christian Science Monitor, 5 June 2006.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Losing the plot', New Statesman, 12 June 2006.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'The media's MMR shame', The Guardian, 16 June 2006.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Africa's new royals', New Statesman, 19 June 2006.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'A very well-connected bogeyman', The Guardian, 21 June 2006.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Teenage kicks', The Guardian, 28 June 2006.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'The new 'free speech' apartheid', The Guardian, 6 July 2006.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Capitalism needs its green apologists', The Guardian, 13 July 2006.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Theatre of hate', The Guardian, 17 July 2006.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Terror tactics', New Statesman, 24 July 2006.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Throwing our judicial junk in Britain's backyard (or courts)', The Christian Science Monitor, 24 July 2006.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'A town called Sue', New Statesman, 24 July 2006.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'The flight test', The Guardian, 3 August 2006.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'A pain in the ear', New Statesman, 7 August 2006.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Tory terrorists?', The Guardian, 16 August 2006.
• Brendan O'Neill, Backstory: Cornwall's battle of the 'breaks', The Christian Science Monitor, 21 August 2006.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Honk if you've had enough', The Guardian, 23 August 2006.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Meet the No Planers', New Statesman, 11 September 2006.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Loving animals, loathing foreigners', The Guardian, 15 September 2006.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'The war against pork pies', The Guardian, 18 September 2006.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Darfur: damned by western pity', The Guardian, 25 September 2006.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Backstory: A fierce and furry fight on the banks of the Thames', The Christian Science Monitor, 27 September 2006.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Watching you watching me', New Statesman, 2 October 2006.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Terror in the classroom', The Guardian, 3 October 2006.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Heavy vetting', The Guardian, 25 October 2006.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'What's worse than an illegal war? A legal one', The Guardian, 6 November 2006.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Band on the run', The Guardian, 13 November 2006.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Backstory: Everyone's going conkers', The Christian Science Monitor, 14 November 2006.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Backstory: Borat write thesis. It niiiice. You like read?', The Christian Science Monitor, 21 November 2006.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'A climate of censorship', The Guardian, 22 November 2006.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Abolish Ofcom', The Guardian, 30 November 2006.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Ringleader of the Tory mentors', The Guardian, 11 December 2006.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Veiled meanings', The Guardian, 21 December 2006.

2007

• Brendan O'Neill, 'All the young prudes', The Guardian, 7 January 2007.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Come, friendly bombs', New Statesman, 8 January 2007.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Backstory: A London scene set by guerilla art', The Christian Science Monitor, 9 January 2007.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Flying off the handle', The Guardian, 15 January 2007.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'One form of prejudice reveals another', The Guardian, 22 January 2007.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'A modern-day witch-hunt', The Guardian, 2 February 2007.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'This, lads, is a fish knife', New Statesman, 5 February 2007.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Backstory: Are Gaelic-only laws linguistic apartheid?', The Christian Science Monitor, 6 February 2007.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Distress calls', The Guardian, 9 February 2007.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Making Enemies', The American Conservative, 12 February 2007.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Liberally forgetful', The Guardian, 15 February 2007.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Bashing the masses', The Guardian, 21 February 2007.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Our lips are sealed', The Guardian, 8 March 2007.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'I'd rather wear fur than go naked', The Guardian, 19 March 2007.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Enslaved by self-pity', The Guardian, 26 March 2007.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Coffee, please; hold the froth', The Guardian, 4 April 2007.
• Brendan O'Neill, Genocide: a codeword for 'wog violence', The Guardian, 13 April 2007.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Finding fault', The Guardian, 23 April 2007.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Old radicals', The Guardian, 7 May 2007.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Statue of limitations', The Guardian, 17 May 2007.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Tony the Nanny', Reason, 17 May 2007.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Bemusement park: Where Dickens meets Disney', The Christian Science Monitor, 25 May 2007.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'How migrants really live', New Statesman, 4 June 2007.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Restricted views', The Guardian, 14 June 2007.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Cowards in the face of Iraq', The Guardian, 27 June 2007.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Environmentalism: the new death cult?', The Guardian, 3 July 2007.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'The Bosnian connection', The Guardian, 6 July 2007.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'The Bosnian Connection', The American Conservative, 16 July 2006.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Polluting minds', The Guardian, 25 July 2007.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Doping the masses', The Guardian, 1 August 2007.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Give us wings!', The Guardian, 18 August 2007.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'BNP's green disguise', New Statesman, 23 August 2007.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Rant: Tony the Nanny', Reason, August/September 2007.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Canine communities', The Guardian, 11 September 2007.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'In the other camp', The Guardian, 20 September 2007.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Mail misery, but whose?', New Statesman, 18 October 2007.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'The buzz on Gore's Nobel Peace Prize', The Christian Science Monitor, 18 October 2007.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'The tyranny of science', The Guardian, 19 October 2007.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Blue-blooded and green', The Guardian, 1 November 2007.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Dressing up the message', The Guardian, 6 November 2007.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Rating humanity', The Guardian, 14 November 2007.
• Brendan O'Neill, What's gone wrong with my Marxism?", The Spectator, 28 November 2007.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Harpoon this ecoimperialism', The Guardian, 29 November 2007.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Jamaica: the limit of liberalism', The Guardian, 8 December 2007.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'The essence of Orwellianism', The Guardian, 12 December 2007.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Shane MacGowan: voice of reason', The Guardian, 19 December 2007.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'The new atheism', The Guardian, 30 December 2007.

2008

• Brendan O'Neill, '2007: The Year in Videos', Reason, 1 January 2008.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Bearfaced lies', The Guardian, 4 January 2008.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'The taint of association', The Guardian, 14 January 2008.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'When ignorance is bliss', New Statesman, 24 January 2008.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'The tyranny of militant lactivism', The Guardian, 27 January 2008.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Persecuting chubby kids', The Guardian, 8 February 2008.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Miliband's contradiction in terms', The Guardian, 12 February 2008.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Delia the radical', The Guardian, 18 February 2008.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Make the World Safe for Hope', The American Conservative, 25 February 2008.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Plane snobbery', The Guardian, 27 February 2008.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'The problem with Tibet', The Guardian, 6 March 2008.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Poverty of vision', The Guardian, 12 March 2008.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'London wants to put Britishness on a pedestal', The Christian Science Monitor, 17 March 2008.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'The myth of trafficking', New Statesman, 27 March 2008.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'The Chinese burden?', The Guardian, 1 April 2008.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Defending freedom', The Guardian, 7 April 2008.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Learning from Nepal', The Guardian, 13 April 2008.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Loving Obama', New Statesman, 17 April 2008.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'The other 1968', The Guardian, 23 April 2008.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Over and out?', The Guardian, 25 April 2008.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'What's driving the BNP?', New Statesman, 1 May 2008.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'A nose for Nazis', The Guardian, 6 May 2008.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'The Oreo invades Britain', The Christian Science Monitor, 13 May 2008.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'The fat freakshow', The Guardian, 16 May 2008.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'True Europeans', The Guardian, 23 May 2008.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Down with the Dalai Lama', The Guardian, 29 May 2008.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Kneejerk Libertarian', Reason, 29 May 2008.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Boris's scary arches', New Statesman, 29 May 2008.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Londoners and New Yorkers gawk at each other through a transatlantic lens', The Christian Science Monitor, 4 June 2008.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Can you replicate London's Speakers' Corner?', The Christian Science Monitor, 11 June 2008.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'The exploitation of Aids', The Guardian, 12 June 2008.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'The internet's traffic jam', The Guardian, 3 July 2008.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Greens are the enemies of liberty', The Guardian, 15 July 2008.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Don't trash the China', The Guardian, 25 July 2008.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Olympian myths of Tiananmen', The Guardian, 8 August 2008.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Making headlines in China', The Guardian, 17 August 2008.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Roasting the masses', The Guardian, 27 August 2008.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Radical Chic', The American Conservative, 8 September 2008.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Elitist evangelists', The Guardian, 9 September 2008.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'An alfresco Arctic art gallery warms the soul in Iceland', The Christian Science Monitor, 29 September 2008.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'We live in an era of sneering', The Guardian, 5 October 2008.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Spike the ASA, not the Cactus Kid', The Guardian, 9 October 2008.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'In a class of his own', New Statesman, 30 October 2008.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'The joy of less', The Guardian, 2 November 2008.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'As Orwell warned, children now spy on adults', The Spectator, 5 November 2008.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'What part of Ireland's 'no' does the EU not understand?', The Guardian, 13 December 2008.

2009

• Brendan O'Neill, 'Gaza propaganda war escalates on the internet', The First Post, 12 January 2009.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'This is something worse than class war', The Guardian, 13 January 2009.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'An unenlightened argument', The Guardian, 21 January 2009.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Pantomime liberals', New Statesman, 19 February 2009.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Scotland's petty prohibition', The Guardian, 4 March 2009.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Burdening Israel', The American Conservative, 9 March 2009.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Britons rally to save red phone booths', The Christian Science Monitor, 23 March 2009.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Nano and the rise of eco-imperialism', The Guardian, 24 March 2009.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'The Myersons and the meaning of the misery memoir', The Christian Science Monitor, 27 March 2009.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'British press suffers from a case of swine fever hysteria', The First Post, 6 May 2009.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Disturbing the Peace', Reason, 11 May 2009.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'The O'Reilly Factor', Reason, 1 June 2009.
• Brendan O'Neill, '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, 'We've got all the space in the world', The Guardian, 13 June 2009.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'The gym where they teach you how to beat up chavs', The Spectator, 17 June 2009.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'How the Gurkhas went from pet warriors to victims', The First Post, 28 July 2009.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Green-Industrial Complex', The American Conservative, 1 August 2009.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Disturbing the Peace', Reason, August/September 2009.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Wearing thermals won't save the planet', The Guardian, 2 September 2009.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Authoritarian? China’s not a patch on Britain', The Spectator, 7 October 2009.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Tempest over Thierry Henry's handball in Ireland-France soccer match: Get over it.', The Christian Science Monitor, 23 November 2003.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Doping the Masses', Reason, 1 December 2009.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'When it comes to the internet, Labour is clueless', The Guardian, 3 December 2009.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Call off the Tiger hunt', The Spectator, 9 December 2009.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Tony Blair bombshell: how it reshapes the Iraq war debate', The Christian Science Monitor, 15 December 2009.

2010

• Brendan O'Neill, 'The media's tall tales over Iraq', The Guardian, 4 February 2010.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Beyond Buddhism, Tiger Woods has converted to another religion', The Christian Science Monitor, 22 February 2010.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'The emotionally correct ‘censureship’ of Jan Moir', Forth, 22 February 2010.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Weaponizing Mozart', Reason, 24 February 2010.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Sinister ’70s', The American Conservative, 1 March 2010.
• Brendan O'Neill, In defence of ‘devil dogs’, The Spectator, 3 March 2010.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Fifty Commandments of New Labour', The Spectator, 21 April 2010.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Sinners in the Hands of an Angry Gaia', Reason, 21 April 2010.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'British election: political animal Brown vs. technocrats Clegg, Cameron', The Christian Science Monitor, 30 April 2010.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Falling For the Myth of Cleggmania', Reason, 13 May 2010.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'China’s parents have begun to rebel', The Spectator, 19 May 2010.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Glastonbury is for middle-aged masochists', The Spectator, 9 June 2010.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Tibet Notebook', The Spectator, 24 July 2010.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'The Truth About Tibetan Buddhism', Reason, 28 July 2010.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Free Tibet from China – and the West, too', The Christian Science Monitor, 29 July 2010.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Down on the Upside', The American Conservative, 1 August 2010.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Drunk and orderly', The Spectator, 18 September 2010.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'The common sense of Thomas Paine', The Guardian, 17 November 2010.

2011

• Brendan O'Neill, 'Nudgers vs. Nannies', Reason, 4 January 2011.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'America’s Islington', The Spectator, 22 January 2011.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Nudgers vs. Nannies', Reason, April 2011.
• Brendan O'Neill, The War in Libya and the "Arab Spring", Reason, 7 April 2011.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'It's a Mad, Mad World', Reason, 15 April 2011.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Royal wedding: The snobbery of Will'n'Kate-haters', The Christian Science Monitor, 28 April 2011.
• Brendan O'Neill, Human Centipede II director angered by BBFC's 'stiff upper lip', The Guardian, 14 June 2011.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'A Disgusting Act of Censorship', Reason, 24 June 2011.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Welcome, baby 7,000,000,000', The Big Issue, 31 October 2011.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Question Time', The Big Issue, 14 November 2011.
• Brendan O'Neill, Striking Differences - "It's not surprising public sector workers are angry...", The Big Issue, 28 November 2011.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'State, local policies emerge on illegal immigrants', The Christian Science Monitor, 11 December 2011.

2012

• Brendan O'Neill, 'Liam Byrne is right – we need 'radical reform' of the initiative-zapping, soul-destroying welfare state', The Daily Telegraph, 3 January 2012.
• Brendan O'Neill, The incredible megalomania of the Green Party: now they want to speak on behalf of the 'unborn', The Daily Telegraph, 5 January 2012.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'If we go by the daft definition of racism proffered by Diane Abbott's own social set, then she *is* a racist', The Daily Telegraph, 6 January 2012.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Sex addicts' should drop the psychobabble and admit that they're just promiscuous losers, The Daily Telegraph, 13 January 2012.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'The coverage of the Costa Concordia tragedy is being tainted by snobbish aversion to the cruise-liner industry', 'The Daily telegraph, 16 January 2012.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Feminists who campaign against hip-hop are like the Christian squares who railed against rock’n’roll', The Daily Telegraph, 18 January 2012.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'By writing in praise of fast food, Alex James has shown that he does have a rock'n'roll streak after all', The Daily Telegraph, 20 January 2012.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'The Twitter tantrum over the rumoured Princess Bride remake exposes the immaturity of my generation', The Daily Telegraph, 24 January 2012.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Why is nobody outraged by the fact that a footballer has been fined £6,000 for writing an 82-character tweet?', The Daily Telegraph, 26 January 2012.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Everyone – Right, Left and Rod Liddle – has got it wrong on the disability benefits debate', The Daily Telegraph, 27 January 2012.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'The hounding of 'Psychic Sally' is becoming a modern-day witch-hunt', The Daily Telegraph, 31 January 2012.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Cyclists are pompous enough as it is – a Cycling Covenant would make them unbearable', The Daily Telegraph, 3 February 2012.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'If Christians are not free to say 'God heals', then there is no religious freedom in this country', The Daily Telegraph, 6 February 2012.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'In blaming mankind for causing snow across Europe, Greens sound eerily like 16th-century witch-hunters', The Daily Telegraph, 7 February 2012.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Racist Right-wingers once used 'science' to prove their superiority: now Leftists like George Monbiot are at it', The Daily Telegraph, 8 February 2012.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'In its desire to appease the gods of NuFootball, the FA is turning into a scarily Orwellian outfit', The Daily telegraph, 9 February 2012.
• Brendan O'Neill, The unintentional irony of the witless Fabio Capello-bashers: 'He must be racist, he's an Italian', The Daily Telegraph, 10 February 2012.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Feminist fearmongering over breast implants is patronising and baseless', The Daily Telegraph, 14 February 2012.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'It is moronic to compare opposition to gay marriage with opposition to interracial marriage', The Daily Telegraph, 16 February 2012.
• Brendan O'Neill, It's madness to tell a five-year-old boy who likes tutus that he has a 'gender identity disorder', The Daily Telegraph, 22 February 2012.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Why World Leaders Call On Celebrities to Do Their Dirty Work', Reason, 23 February 2012.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Occupy London is now basically a holding camp for the mentally ill. It's time to call it a day', The Daily Telegraph, 23 February 2012.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'The collapse of workfare is testament to the power of the modern media elite and its slavish Twitter followers', The Daily Telegraph, 27 February 2012.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Syria isn't the 'new Bosnia', despite the narcissistic hopes of the Western commentariat', The Daily Telegraph, 28 February 2012.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'A radical Left-wing argument for ripping up the European Convention on Human Rights', The Daily Telegraph, 1 March 2012.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'The humanist case against assisted dying', The Daily Telegraph, 2 March 2012.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Liberal guilt and the modern Left, perfectly captured on stage', The Daily Telegraph, 5 March 2012.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Gay marriage is now the issue through which the elite advertises its superiority over the redneck masses', The Daily Telegraph, 6 March 2012.
• Brendan O'Neill, The Hunger Games cut by the BBFC: 13-year-olds should be allowed to see 'splashes of blood', The Daily Telegraph, 13 March 2012.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'The hypocrisy of the hacks and human-rights activists who are sneering at Kony 2012', The Daily Telegraph, 14 March 2012.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'The International Criminal Court is, by any objective measurement, racist. So why do liberals love it?', The Daily Telegraph, 15 March 2012.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'John Sentamu's fall from grace with liberals shows that you criticise gay marriage at your peril', The Daily Telegraph, 19 March 2012.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'A question for all the activists railing against the NHS bill: why didn’t you protest when Labour pursued the exact same policies?', The Daily Telegraph, 23 March 2012.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Yes, those anti-Muamba tweets were depraved – but that doesn't justify the police getting involved', The Daily Telegraph, 23 March 2012.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'How the gay-marriage campaign has unleashed a bureaucratic assault on people's identities', The Daily Telegraph, 24 March 2012.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'What sort of misanthrope campaigns for the 'right to die'?', The Daily Telegraph 27 March 2012.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'George Galloway's victory confirms the demise of the radical Left, not its resurgence', The Daily Telegraph, 30 March 2012.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'The 100-year war against football fans' freedom of speech', The Daily Telegraph, 2 April 2012.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Joseph Kony 2: this sequel is nothing more than mass entertainment for the boneheaded Twitter youth', The Daily Telegraph, 3 April 2012.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'The Twitterstorm against Samantha Brick is infinitely uglier and nastier than the article she wrote', The Daily Telegraph, 3 April 2012.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'The branding of Daniel Bartlam as a 'devil child' is unbecoming of our civilised society ', The Daily Telegraph, 4 April 2012.
• Brendan O'Neill, The Trayvon Martin hoodie trend – a politically correct form of ‘blacking up’, The Daily Telegraph, 10 April 2012.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Alan Davies has committed a thought crime against the post-Hillsborough cult of emotional correctness', The Daily Telegraph, 11 April 2012.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'The Government's consultation on gay marriage is riddled with Queer Theory gibberish', The Daily Telegraph, 12 April 2012.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Who's really prejudiced: Ricky Gervais or his snobbish, censorious critics?', The Daily Telegraph, 12 April 2012.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'The ‘bus advert storm’ confirms that Christians are now more progressive than gay rights activists', The Daily Telegraph, 13 April 2012.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'What really drives the Grand National killjoys is not a love of horses but a hatred for human beings', The Daily Telegraph, 16 April 2012.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Six reasons why Left-wing Londoners shouldn't cast their vote for Ken Livingstone', The Daily Telegraph, 17 April 2012.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Breivik: a monster made by multiculturalism', The Daily Telegraph, 18 April 2012.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Why are breast-cancer sufferers considered more worthy of respect and research than lung-cancer sufferers?', The Daily Telegraph, 19 April 2012.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Liberal 'concern' over free school meals is really just snobbery and prejudice', The Daily Telegraph, 20 April 2012.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Our rotten obsession with child abuse is destroying perfectly innocent families', The Daily Telegraph, 20 April 2012.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'After the Ched Evans case, can we please have a grown-up discussion about anonymity in rape trials?', The Daily Telegraph, 24 April 2012.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Stop the press! Catholic schools teach Catholic ideas about gay marriage!', The Daily Telegraph, 26 April 2012.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Are Tibetans burning themselves to evoke the further pity of their Western sympathisers?', The Daily Telegraph, 27 May 2012.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'We should celebrate Dwain Chambers’ victory over the vindictive British Olympic Association', The Daily Telegraph, 30 April 2012.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Pirate Bay users who expect instant access to everything are like an online army of annoying Veruca Salts', The Daily Telegraph, 1 May 2012.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'The middle-class medievalism of the Murdoch-bashing set', The Daily Telegraph, 2 May 2012.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'The electorate’s silent, withering rebellion against the political class', The Daily Telegraph, 4 May 2012.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Environmentalists compared their opponents to mass murderers long before the Heartland Institute',, The Daily Telegraph, 4 May 2012.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Where the Wild Things Are was the perfect fairytale for the post-Sixties era of navel-gazing psychobabble', The Daily Telegraph, 8 May 2012.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Muslims, 'sex gangs' and white working-class women', The Daily Telegraph, 9 May 2012.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'The bile being spat at the people of North Carolina exposes the ugly elitism of the gay-marriage lobby', The Daily Telegraph, 11 May 2012.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Rebekah Brooks: the only woman in Britain you’re allowed to be sexist about', The Daily Telegraph, 14 May 2012.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Ratko Mladic is a substitute Hitler for today’s bored and mission-less Western hacks', The Daily Telegraph, 17 May 2012.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Privacy is being turned into a privilege that only the rich and right-on may enjoy', The Daily Telegraph, 21 May 2012.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Commons people don’t speak for common people', The Big Issue, 21 May 2012.
• Brendan O'Neill, fashionable hostility towards social mobility is just another way of saying 'know your place', The Daily Telegraph, 22 May 2012.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'As every serious radical knows, it would be mad to give prisoners the right to vote', The Daily Telegraph, 23 May 2012.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'The BBFC’s war against the ‘natural language’ of the Glaswegian working class', The Daily Telegraph, 25 May 2012.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'The fear of 'racist' Ukraine is itself xenophobic', The Daily Telegraph, 28 May 2012.
• Brendan O'Neill, 'Fiftysomething former punks sulking about the Diamond Jubilee is embarrassing and it hurts the republican cause', The Daily Telegraph, 29 May 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