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*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/in-dystopian-britain-the-police-now-hunt-down-8216pre-rapists8217/17954 In dystopian Britain, the police now hunt down ‘pre-rapists’], ''Spiked'', 25 January 2016.
 
*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/in-dystopian-britain-the-police-now-hunt-down-8216pre-rapists8217/17954 In dystopian Britain, the police now hunt down ‘pre-rapists’], ''Spiked'', 25 January 2016.
 
*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/we-must-have-the-freedom-to-hate/17996 'We must have the freedom to hate'], ''Spiked'', 3 February 2016.
 
*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/we-must-have-the-freedom-to-hate/17996 'We must have the freedom to hate'], ''Spiked'', 3 February 2016.
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*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spectator.co.uk/2016/02/defending-mitchell/ 'Defending Mitchell'], ''The Spectator'', 6 February 2016.
 
*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/were-all-mental-patients-now/18045 'We’re all mental patients now'], ''Spiked'', 18 February 2016.
 
*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/were-all-mental-patients-now/18045 'We’re all mental patients now'], ''Spiked'', 18 February 2016.
 
*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/love-democracy-then-leave-the-eu/18054 'Love democracy? Then leave the EU'], ''Spiked'', 22 February 2016.
 
*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/love-democracy-then-leave-the-eu/18054 'Love democracy? Then leave the EU'], ''Spiked'', 22 February 2016.
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*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/leftists-for-the-eu-the-radical-wing-of-the-oligarchy/18263 'Leftists for the EU: the radical wing of the oligarchy'], ''Spiked'', 20 April 2016.
 
*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/leftists-for-the-eu-the-radical-wing-of-the-oligarchy/18263 'Leftists for the EU: the radical wing of the oligarchy'], ''Spiked'', 20 April 2016.
 
*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/2016/04/21/calling-out-the-holocaust-is-the-logical-end-point-of-the-lefts/ 'Calling out' the Holocaust is the logical end point of the Left's perverse victimhood Olympics], ''The Telegraph'', 21 April 2016.
 
*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/2016/04/21/calling-out-the-holocaust-is-the-logical-end-point-of-the-lefts/ 'Calling out' the Holocaust is the logical end point of the Left's perverse victimhood Olympics], ''The Telegraph'', 21 April 2016.
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*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spectator.co.uk/2016/04/fallen-idol/ 'Fallen idol'], ''The Spectator'', 23 April 2016.
 
*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/2016/04/25/why-do-radical-students-think-its-their-job-to-defend-barack-oba/ Why do 'radical' students think it's their job to defend Barack Obama?], ''The Telegraph'', 25 April 2016.
 
*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/2016/04/25/why-do-radical-students-think-its-their-job-to-defend-barack-oba/ Why do 'radical' students think it's their job to defend Barack Obama?], ''The Telegraph'', 25 April 2016.
 
*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/a-deep-green-in-charge-of-london-i-dont-think-so/18286 'A deep green in charge of London? I don’t think so'], ''Spiked'', 27 April 2016.
 
*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/a-deep-green-in-charge-of-london-i-dont-think-so/18286 'A deep green in charge of London? I don’t think so'], ''Spiked'', 27 April 2016.
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*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/sadiq-khan-victory-so-where-are-all-the-islamophobes/18331 'Sadiq’s victory: so where are all the Islamophobes?'], ''Spiked'', 9 May 2016.
 
*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/sadiq-khan-victory-so-where-are-all-the-islamophobes/18331 'Sadiq’s victory: so where are all the Islamophobes?'], ''Spiked'', 9 May 2016.
 
*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/it-is-the-eu-that-is-truly-europhobic/18337 It is the EU that is truly ‘Europhobic’], ''Spiked'', 10 May 2016.
 
*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/it-is-the-eu-that-is-truly-europhobic/18337 It is the EU that is truly ‘Europhobic’], ''Spiked'', 10 May 2016.
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*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spectator.co.uk/2016/05/the-internets-war-on-free-speech/ 'The internet’s war on free speech'], ''The Spectator'', 14 May 2016.
 
*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.bigissue.com/features/columnists/6578/donald-trump-is-a-monster-of-our-own-making 'Donald Trump is a monster of our own making'], ''Big Issue'', 16 May 2016.
 
*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.bigissue.com/features/columnists/6578/donald-trump-is-a-monster-of-our-own-making 'Donald Trump is a monster of our own making'], ''Big Issue'', 16 May 2016.
 
*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/fear-or-hope-neither-thanks/18399 'Fear or hope? Neither, thanks'], ''Spiked'', 25 May 2016.
 
*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/fear-or-hope-neither-thanks/18399 'Fear or hope? Neither, thanks'], ''Spiked'', 25 May 2016.
 
*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.bigissue.com/features/columnists/6663/nuns-shall-pass-the-rise-of-shoulder-shrugging-emptiness 'Nuns shall pass. The rise of shoulder-shrugging emptiness'], ''Big Issue'', 6 June 2016.
 
*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.bigissue.com/features/columnists/6663/nuns-shall-pass-the-rise-of-shoulder-shrugging-emptiness 'Nuns shall pass. The rise of shoulder-shrugging emptiness'], ''Big Issue'', 6 June 2016.
 
*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/we-must-have-the-freedom-to-hate1/18445 'We must have the freedom to hate'], ''Spiked'', 10 June 2016.
 
*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/we-must-have-the-freedom-to-hate1/18445 'We must have the freedom to hate'], ''Spiked'', 10 June 2016.
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*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spectator.co.uk/2016/06/to-drink-a-beer-called-maple-bacon-coffee-porter-is-to-say-im-better-than-you/ 'To drink a beer called ‘Maple Bacon Coffee Porter’ is to say: ‘I’m better than you'], ''The Spectator'', 11 June 2016.
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*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spectator.co.uk/2016/06/ward-of-the-nanny-state/ 'Ward of the nanny state'], ''The Spectator'', 11 June 2016.
 
*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/the-orlando-massacre-and-the-crisis-of-humanism/18452 'The Orlando massacre and the crisis of humanism'], ''Spiked'', 13 June 2016.
 
*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/the-orlando-massacre-and-the-crisis-of-humanism/18452 'The Orlando massacre and the crisis of humanism'], ''Spiked'', 13 June 2016.
 
*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/orlando-has-exposed-the-poison-of-identity-politics/18457 'Orlando has exposed the poison of identity politics'], ''Spiked'', 15 June 2016.
 
*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/orlando-has-exposed-the-poison-of-identity-politics/18457 'Orlando has exposed the poison of identity politics'], ''Spiked'', 15 June 2016.
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*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/brexit-this-was-a-vote-against-bigotry-not-for-it/18514 'Brexit: this was a vote against bigotry, not for it'], ''Spiked'', 29 June 2016.
 
*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/brexit-this-was-a-vote-against-bigotry-not-for-it/18514 'Brexit: this was a vote against bigotry, not for it'], ''Spiked'', 29 June 2016.
 
*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/07/01/europhile-crybabies-want-to-kill-off-british-democracy-so-we-mus/ 'Europhile crybabies want to kill off British democracy, so we must fight to protect it all over again'], ''The Telegraph'', 1 July 2016.
 
*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/07/01/europhile-crybabies-want-to-kill-off-british-democracy-so-we-mus/ 'Europhile crybabies want to kill off British democracy, so we must fight to protect it all over again'], ''The Telegraph'', 1 July 2016.
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*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spectator.co.uk/2016/07/brexit-voters-are-not-thick-not-racist-just-poor/ 'Brexit voters are not thick, not racist: just poor'], ''The Spectator'', 2 July 2016.
 
*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/trigger-article-50-the-great-democratic-cry-of-our-times/18524 ‘Trigger Article 50!’: the great democratic cry of our times], ''Spiked'', 4 July 2016.
 
*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/trigger-article-50-the-great-democratic-cry-of-our-times/18524 ‘Trigger Article 50!’: the great democratic cry of our times], ''Spiked'', 4 July 2016.
 
*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/chilcot-the-worst-kind-of-whitewash/18537 'Chilcot: the worst kind of whitewash'], ''Spiked'', 6 July 2016.
 
*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/chilcot-the-worst-kind-of-whitewash/18537 'Chilcot: the worst kind of whitewash'], ''Spiked'', 6 July 2016.
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*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.bigissue.com/features/columnists/6832/electability-over-ideology-but-where-are-the-big-ideas 'Electability over ideology – but where are the big ideas?'], ''Big Issue'', 1 August 2016.
 
*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.bigissue.com/features/columnists/6832/electability-over-ideology-but-where-are-the-big-ideas 'Electability over ideology – but where are the big ideas?'], ''Big Issue'', 1 August 2016.
 
*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/their-britain-and-ours/18623 'Their Britain, and ours'], ''Spiked'', 4 August 2016.
 
*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/their-britain-and-ours/18623 'Their Britain, and ours'], ''Spiked'', 4 August 2016.
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*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spectator.co.uk/2016/08/the-real-hate-crime-scandal/ 'Britain's real hate crime scandal'], ''The Spectator'', 6 August 2016.
 
*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/the-problem-with-black-lives-matter/18643 'The problem with Black Lives Matter'], ''Spiked'', 11 August 2016.
 
*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/the-problem-with-black-lives-matter/18643 'The problem with Black Lives Matter'], ''Spiked'', 11 August 2016.
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*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spectator.co.uk/2016/08/leakphobia/ 'Leakphobia'], ''The Spectator'', 13 August 2016.
 
*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/free-anjem-choudary/18661 'Free Anjem Choudary'], ''Spiked'', 19 August 2016.
 
*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/free-anjem-choudary/18661 'Free Anjem Choudary'], ''Spiked'', 19 August 2016.
 
*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/hate-speech-must-be-free-speech/18669 ‘Hate speech must be free speech’], podcast, ''Spiked'', 20 August 2016.
 
*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/hate-speech-must-be-free-speech/18669 ‘Hate speech must be free speech’], podcast, ''Spiked'', 20 August 2016.
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*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spectator.co.uk/2016/09/diary-691/ 'Diary'], ''The Spectator'', 3 September 2016.
 
*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/pamela-anderson-is-right-theres-too-much-porn/18734 'Pamela Anderson is right: there’s too much porn'], ''Spiked'', 5 September 2016.
 
*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/pamela-anderson-is-right-theres-too-much-porn/18734 'Pamela Anderson is right: there’s too much porn'], ''Spiked'', 5 September 2016.
 
*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/why-the-kurds-deserve-our-support/18746 'Why the Kurds deserve our support'], ''Spiked'', 8 September 2016.
 
*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/why-the-kurds-deserve-our-support/18746 'Why the Kurds deserve our support'], ''Spiked'', 8 September 2016.

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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."

In April 2014 O'Neill was spending one month in Australia as the first 'Scholar-in-residence' at the Centre for Independent Studies, lecturing, writing and working on its projects. [7]

In October 2014 he gave the key note speech at the fifth annual student conference of right-wing pro-Israel lobby group StandWithUs UK.[8]

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. Brendan O'Neill, Brendan O'Neill on the Racial Discrimination Act and freedom of speech, Radio National, 15 April 2014, acc 18 April 2014
  8. Student Conference, StandWithUs UK, accessed 10 October 2014
  9. About forth, forth website, acc 19 Apr 2010