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.
From 1998, he wrote for LM magazine, as Living Marxism was renamed in 1997 when 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 2000, until in 2007 he took over as editor from founding editor Mick Hume.
From Jan 2011, he wrote a regular blog for the Telegraph.[1] Prior to that, he wrote regularly for the Guardian.
From the Battle of Ideas biography:[2] 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[3]
Publications
- 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)
- Guardian, "Articles for the Guardian"
- Spectator, "What's gone wrong with my Marxism?", Spectator, 28 November 2007
- Spiked, "Articles for Spiked"
- Telegraph, "Blog for the Telegraph"
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
- ↑ Brendan O'Neill, "The Telegraph" acc 11 Mar 2011
- ↑ Battle of Ideas 2010 festival biography (Accessed: 12 Mar 2011)
- ↑ About forth, forth website, acc 19 Apr 2010
