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*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/radical-chic/ 'Radical Chic'], ''The American Conservative'', 8 September 2008.
 
*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/radical-chic/ 'Radical Chic'], ''The American Conservative'', 8 September 2008.
 
*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/sep/09/kingsnorth 'Elitist evangelists'], ''The Guardian'', 9 September 2008.
 
*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/sep/09/kingsnorth 'Elitist evangelists'], ''The Guardian'', 9 September 2008.
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*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/5728/ 'Who will win the polar bear vote?'], ''Spiked'', 16 September 2008.
 
*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.csmonitor.com/The-Culture/2008/0929/an-alfresco-arctic-art-gallery-warms-the-soul-in-iceland 'An alfresco Arctic art gallery warms the soul in Iceland'], ''The Christian Science Monitor'', 29 September 2008.
 
*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.csmonitor.com/The-Culture/2008/0929/an-alfresco-arctic-art-gallery-warms-the-soul-in-iceland 'An alfresco Arctic art gallery warms the soul in Iceland'], ''The Christian Science Monitor'', 29 September 2008.
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*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/5768/ 'Congress bales out'], ''Spiked'', 30 September 2008.
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*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/5773/ 'A licence to be offended'], ''Spiked'', 2 October 2008.
 
*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/oct/05/comedy 'We live in an era of sneering'], ''The Guardian'', 5 October 2008.
 
*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/oct/05/comedy 'We live in an era of sneering'], ''The Guardian'', 5 October 2008.
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*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/5790/ 'Against austerity'], ''Spiked'', 6 October 2008.
 
*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/oct/09/advertising.asa 'Spike the ASA, not the Cactus Kid'], ''The Guardian'', 9 October 2008.
 
*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/oct/09/advertising.asa 'Spike the ASA, not the Cactus Kid'], ''The Guardian'', 9 October 2008.
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*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/5809/ Britain vs Iceland: after the Cod Wars, the ‘Wad Wars’], ''Spiked'', 13 October 2008.
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*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/5819/ 'This Marxist isn’t laughing'], ''Spiked'', 15 October 2008.
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*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/5826/ ‘Climate change denial is a mental disorder’], ''Spiked'', 17 October 2008.
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*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/5841/ 'The myth of Thatcherism'], ''Spiked'', 22 October 2008.
 
*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2008/10/sillitoe-bradford-class-writer 'In a class of his own'], ''New Statesman'', 30 October 2008.
 
*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2008/10/sillitoe-bradford-class-writer 'In a class of his own'], ''New Statesman'', 30 October 2008.
 
*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/nov/02/recession 'The joy of less'], ''The Guardian'', 2 November 2008.
 
*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/nov/02/recession 'The joy of less'], ''The Guardian'', 2 November 2008.
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*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/5887/ 'Congo: pornography for misanthropes'], ''Spiked'', 3 November 2008.
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*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/5890/ 'Is America still the world’s policeman?'], ''Spiked'', 4 November 2008.
 
*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spectator.co.uk/the-magazine/features/2577151/as-orwell-warned-children-now-spy-on-adults.thtml 'As Orwell warned, children now spy on adults'], ''The Spectator'', 5 November 2008.
 
*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spectator.co.uk/the-magazine/features/2577151/as-orwell-warned-children-now-spy-on-adults.thtml 'As Orwell warned, children now spy on adults'], ''The Spectator'', 5 November 2008.
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*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/5893/ 'A victory for passion over cynicism'], ''Spiked'', 5 November 2008.
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*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/5896/ 'Voting for Obama: a badge of superiority?'], ''Spiked'', 6 November 2008.
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*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/5899/ 'Michael Crichton, RIP'], ''Spiked'', 6 November 2008.
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*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/5909/ 'Obama and the new age of sobriety'], ''Spiked'', 10 November 2008.
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*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/5937/ 'Dead baby porn'], ''Spiked'', 18 November 2008.
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*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/5950/ 'Barnardo’s bunkum'], ''Spiked'', 20 November 2008.
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*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/5964/ 'A New York rebellion against libel imperialism'], ''Spiked'', 25 November 2008.
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*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/5971/ ‘We must avoid “mission accomplished” mentality’], ''Spiked'', 27 November 2008.
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*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/5981/ 'Mumbai: the nihilism that dare not speak its name'], ''Spiked'', 28 November 2008.
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*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/5993/ 'How the abuse industry is exploiting Baby P'], ''Spiked'', 4 December 2008.
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*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/6008/ 'Class hatred at Stansted Airport'], ''Spiked'', 9 December 2008.
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*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/6012/ 'Greece: it’s not all about the economy, stupid'], ''Spiked'', 11 December 2008.
 
*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/dec/13/eu-ireland-lisbon-treaty 'What part of Ireland's 'no' does the EU not understand?'], ''The Guardian'', 13 December 2008.
 
*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/dec/13/eu-ireland-lisbon-treaty 'What part of Ireland's 'no' does the EU not understand?'], ''The Guardian'', 13 December 2008.
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*[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/6032/ 'Sock and awe'], ''Spiked'', 17 December 2008.
  
 
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LM network resources
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."

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. About forth, forth website, acc 19 Apr 2010