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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/10754/ 'Judging us all'], ''Spiked'', 17 December 2001.
 
*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/10754/ 'Judging us all'], ''Spiked'', 17 December 2001.
 
*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/10718/ 'One thing that did not change in 2001'], ''Spiked'', 28 December 2001.
 
*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/10718/ 'One thing that did not change in 2001'], ''Spiked'', 28 December 2001.
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====2002====
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/8750/ 'Christmas and the Granny State'], ''Spiked'', 30 December 2002.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/8734/ 'Parenting: no guarantees'], ''Spiked'', 19 December 2002.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/8705/ 'A right royal suck-up'], ''Speaker'', 6 December 2002.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/8702/ 'Warning: worry can damage your health'], ''Spiked'', 3 December 2002.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/8694/ 'No Shopping Day? It’s just moral masturbation'], ''Spiked'', 29 November 2002.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/8686/ 'Why Blair is in charge, yet always in crisis'], ''Spiked'', 26 November 2002.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/8680/ 'In defence of testing on primates'], ''Spiked'', 25 November 2002.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/6934/ 'Dumb intelligence'], ''Spiked'', 19 November 2002.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/6932/ 'Time gentlemen, police'], ''Spiked'', 19 November 2002.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/8653/ 'Of hawks and doves'], ''Spiked'', 19 November 2002.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/8654/ 'Time gentlemen, police'], ''Spiked'', 19 November 2002.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/8591/ 'Heroes or role models?'], ''Spiked'', 11 November 2002.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/8590/ 'Bush has won the battle, but not yet the war'], ''Spiked'', 8 November 2002.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/8575/ 'Royals court short'], ''Spiked'', 4 November 2002.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/8086/ 'One war that Bush has already lost'], ''Spiked'', 15 October 2002.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/8092/ 'Who cares if Sven plays the field?'], ''Spiked'', 14 October 2002.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/8076/ 'Criminalising seduction?'], ''Spiked'', 2 October 2002.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/8123/ 'Britain’s in no state for war'], ''Spiked'', 27 September 2002.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/8142/ 'A portion of toxic nonsense'], ''Spiked'', 16 September 2002.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/8155/ 'Who wants to fight for a land fit for foxes?'], ''Spiked'', 9 September 2002.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/8162/ 'A panic attack over Iraq'], ''Spiked'', 6 September 2002.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/8374/ 'Why I’m still keen on Keane'], ''Spiked'', 2 September 2002.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/8388/ 'No one has a human right not to be unhappy'], ''Spiked'', 27 August 2002.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/8389/ After Soham - mourners and ‘the mob’], ''Spiked'', 22 August 2002.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/8407/ 'After Soham'], ''Spiked'', 19 August 2002.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/8418/ 'Unsustainable Earth summits'], ''Spiked'', 12 August 2002.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/8420/ 'What ‘anti-war’ movement?'], ''Spiked'', 9 August 2002.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/8467/ 'When in doubt, attack Iraq'], ''Spiked'', 19 July 2002.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/8486/ 'My jury, right or wrong'], ''Spiked'', 15 July 2002.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/9051/ 'Why I supported Germany'], ''Spiked'', 2 July 2002.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/9113/ 'Bush makes ‘history’ on the hoof'], ''Spiked'', 26 June 2002.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/9131/ 'The anti-imperialism of fools'], ''Spiked'', 17 June 2002.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/9143/ 'Despising Tyson'], ''Spiked'', 11 June 2002.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/9152/ 'Genetically modified fears'], ''Spiked'',  5 June 2002.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/9226/ 'Kashmir - whose ‘war on terrorism’?'], ''Spiked'', 28 May 2002.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/9251/ 'Could Bush have prevented 11 September?'], ''Spiked'', 20 May 2002.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/9265/ 'Pim Fortuyn and the fallout from 11 September'], ''Spiked'', 10 May 2002.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/9306/ 'Who’s afraid of the far right?'], ''Spiked'', 3 May 2002.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/9338/ 'The anti-imperialism of idiots'], ''Spiked'', 22 April 2002.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/10691/ 'Why the West is turning on Israel'], ''Spiked'', 12 April 2002.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/10703/ 'Ali G and the Queen Mum: keeping it surreal'], ''Spiked'', 8 April 2002.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/9565/ 'They are all Blairites now - whatever that means'], ''Spiked'', 26 March 2002.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/9568/ 'If this is another Vietnam, then I’m a therapist'], ''Spiked'', 25 March 2002.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/9612/ 'The ‘war on terror’ takes on a life of its own'], ''Spiked'', 13 March 2002.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/9639/ 'State of the unions'], ''Spiked'',  2 March 2002.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/9663/ 'New Labour goes hunting for a cause'], ''Spiked'',  28 February 2002.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/9687/ 'This sleazy obsession is a scandal'], ''Spiked'', 19 February 2002.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/9698/ 'Why snob is a four-letter word'], ''Spiked'', 14 February 2002.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/9731/ 'The State of the War'], ''Spiked'', 1 February 2002.
  
 
===Living Marxism/LM===
 
===Living Marxism/LM===

Revision as of 13:13, 30 April 2012

LM network resources

Mick Hume is associated with the libertarian and anti-environmentalist LM network.

Mick Hume in 2007 or 2008

Hume was born in 1959 and raised in Woking, attending Woking County Grammar School for Boys [1] and studying American Studies in Manchester University. His first left-wing political act was, as a student in Manchester in 1981, supporting Irish Republican hunger strikers, alongside protesting against alleged police racism during that summer's Moss Side riots. [2] He is a journalist and erstwhile organiser of the Revolutionary Communist Party where he was editor of the weekly paper The Next Step from January 1987. [3] In 1988, he became the founding editor of the party's monthly magazine Living Marxism for which he wrote both under his own name and under the pseudonym Eddie Veale.[4] In 1997, following the dissolution of the RCP, the magazine was relaunched under his editorship as LM. Following the magazine's bankruptcy in a libel trial, he become the founding editor of its successor Spiked in 2001. He resigned from this post in 2007 in favour of Brendan O'Neill but continues to write for Spiked. He also speaks at the Battle of Ideas. [5][6]

He has written a column for the Times (London) since 2000.

According to his biography on the "Communicating the war on terror" conference website:

Mick Hume is the editor of spiked and a columnist for The Times (London) and a regular contributor to other publications. He was the editor of LM Magazine (which he launched, originally as Living Marxism, in 1988) until it was forced to close in 2000 following a libel suit brought by ITN. Hume is a fortysomething ex-grammar school boy from Woking, who went to Manchester University and still has a season ticket at Old Trafford."[7]


Encounter

In 1999, journalist Andy Beckett went to a Living Marxism-organised conference that Hume attended. Beckett interviewed Hume about his background and observed:

he rehearses the LM worldview: the globe is "at the end of a political cycle of left and right"; class, once the foundation of all left-wing thinking, "is not a political factor"; there is "no alternative to the market". Instead, the LM project has evolved into "reclaiming the human subject". ...
What Hume is reluctant to mention is that, until three years ago, Living Marxism was the official journal of a more obscure organisation: the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP). After a long, uncharacteristic pause, and a certain amount of looking at the floor, Hume admits that he "spent 10 years in the RCP". What about the other staff of LM? "The network of people I live and work with contain lots of people who were members of the RCP…" Hume tries to sound casual. "I didn't think you were going to write about the RCP and all that."[8]

Affiliations

Publications

Pamphlets and Books

1996

  • Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels The Communist Manifesto (Living Marxism Originals), Introduction by Mick Hume London: Pluto Press; New edition (15 May 1996) ISBN-10: 0745310338 ISBN-13: 978-0745310336

1997

  • Whose War is it Anyway? The Dangers of the Journalism of Attachment InformInc (LM) Ltd (July 1997)

1998

Spiked

2003

2001

2002

Living Marxism/LM

1988

1989

1990

1991

1992

1993

1994

1995

1996

1997

Living Marxism became LM at issue 97 in February 1997.

1998

1999

2000

Resources, References and Contact


References

  1. Talking About My Generation The Times 30 Dec 2008
  2. Bobby Sands was nobody's victim Spiked, 28 Oct 2008
  3. [Mick Hume moves on - new editor for Spiked Spiked, 29 Jan 2007
  4. Don Milligan, Radical Amnesia and the RCP, Reflections of a Renegade, January 8, 2008.
  5. Speakers Battle of Ideas, acc 13 Mar 2011 and is a source of briefing material for Debating Matters.
  6. Mick Hume Debating Matters website, 13 Mar 2011
  7. Speakers' biographies", Communicating the war on terror conference website, 5 June 2003, accessed 16 July 2009
  8. Andy Beckett, Licence to rile, The Guardian, 15 May 1999, accessed 27 April 2010
  9. From the Battle of Ideas Festival 2007: biography (Accessed: 14 May 2008)
  10. http://replay.waybackmachine.org/20071019084210/http://www.riskoffreedom.com/pdf_archive/07brief.pdf