Tim Black

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Tim Black in 2010

Tim Black is associated with the libertarian anti-environmental LM network in that he is deputy editor of Spiked, and also writes for Culture Wars, has spoken at the Battle of Ideas, the Manifesto Club and the Brighton Salon and has adjudicated for Debating Matters.

He has been a researcher at the Times Educational Supplement and an online copywriter. He holds a PhD in English from the University of Sussex.

The 'myth' of Islamophobia

After the November 2015 Paris terrorist attacks, Black argued that concerns about increased Islamophobia in such contexts was not borne out by reality. In a spiked online article he wrote that:

"And yet the backlash, Islam's night and no doubt day of broken glass, never arrives. There never is an anti-Muslim pogrom. There never is a mass eruption of spitting, niqab-renting hatred. Some nasty graffiti and unpleasant tweets, yes; perhaps, lamentably, a fire at a mosque; and even the odd, isolated physical attack on Muslim for no other reason than the fact he or she is a Muslim. But the actual anti-Muslim backlash, the actual fulfilment of Islamaphobia proponents' wet nightmares, the actual mass assault on each and every Muslim.... it continues to lack reality.'

Articles

• Tim Black, Frack to the Future, spikedonline, 31 March 2014 </ref>