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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/13166 Ditch Leveson - let’s get back to first principles], ''Spiked'', 13 December 2012.
 
*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/13166 Ditch Leveson - let’s get back to first principles], ''Spiked'', 13 December 2012.
 
*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/13203 What’s left of press freedom?], ''Spiked'', 27 December 2012.
 
*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/13203 What’s left of press freedom?], ''Spiked'', 27 December 2012.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/13251 Operation Yewtree: putting the past on trial], ''Spiked'', 14 January 2013.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/13303 Don’t bother cutting off the zombie Tory Party’s head], ''Spiked'', 29 January 2013.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/13326 An unfree press – by appointment to the Crown?], ''Spiked'', 7 February 2013.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/13342 The ‘test’ for press freedom should not be set by lords or victims], ''Spiked'', 13 February 2013.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/13369 The Met: the armed wing of the Leveson Inquiry], ''Spiked'', 21 February 2013.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/13392 With Leveson and libel, reforms are not enough], ''Spiked'', 28 February 2013.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/13408 Nobody wins election that never was!], ''Spiked'', 6 March 2013.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/13446 Stitching up press freedom behind closed doors], ''Spiked'', 14 March 2013.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/13460 10 random lies about the press freedom stitch-up], ''Spiked'', 20 March 2013.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/13476 Accepting Leveson means accepting we have lost], ''Spiked'', 26 March 2013.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/13500 Philpott fire: Shamelessly exploiting dead children], ''Spiked'', 4 April 2013.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/13515 That’s enough on Hacked Off, Eds], ''Spiked'', 10 April 2013.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/13530 Didn’t she die when the wall came down?], ''Spiked'', 17 April 2013.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/13573 Can you see what they did yet?], ''Spiked'', 25 April 2013.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/13591 My outrage over ‘racist’ Reginald D Hunter], ''Spiked'', 2 May 2013.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/13594 Homage to Orwell], ''Spiked'', 3 May 2013.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/13603 They’re all Mr Less-Than-Ten-Per-Cent], ''Spiked'', 8 May 2013.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/13615 Remember, Fergie is for football, not for life], ''Spiked'', 14 May 2013.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/13639 Liberty comes out against press liberty], ''Spiked'', 23 May 2013.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/13662 The Daily Mail did not kill Lucy Meadows], ''Spiked'', 30 May 2013.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/13667 Homage to Orwell], ''Spiked'', 31 May 2013.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/13686 The art of defending press freedom], ''Spiked'', 6 June 2013.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/13705 Twitter: #FreeSpeech or #EthicalCleansing?], ''Spiked'', 13 June 2013.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/13720 Syria: semi-impotent West can still make it worse], ''Spiked'', 20 June 2013.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/13737 Hacking is a crime - but only if you’re a press hack], ''Spiked'', 26 June 2013.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/if_this_happened_in_china_thered_be_a_shitstorm_here/13780 ‘If this happened in China, there’d be a shitstorm here’], ''Spiked'', 5 July 2013.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/who_cares_how_zombie_parties_pick_candidates/13796 Who cares how zombie parties pick their candidates?], ''Spiked'', 10 July 2013.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/Liverpool_pc_youll_never_talk_alone/13873 ‘Liverpool PC’: You’ll Never Talk Alone], ''Spiked'', 31 July 2013.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/i_forget_a_riot/13898 ‘I forget a riot, I forget a riot’], ''Spiked'', 8 August 2013.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/falklands_factor_to_gibraltar_falter/13924 Falklands factor to Gibraltar Falter], ''Spiked'', 16 August 2013.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/dont_blame_mr_ed_for_labours_failings/13939 Don’t blame useless Ed – Labour’s dead], ''Spiked'', 21 August 2013.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/miranda_affair_a_pox_on_your_public_interest/13986 A pox on your ‘public interest’!], ''Spiked'', 4 September 2013.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/from_huhne_to_rudd_theyre_all_mad_about_murdoch/14017 From Huhne to Rudd, they’re all mad about Murdoch], ''Spiked'', 12 September 2013.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/mick_on_leonard_cohen/14049 Leonard Cohen: age cannot wither him], ''Spiked'', 18 September 2013.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/when_labour_planned_to_turn_the_army_on_the_people/14072 When Labour planned to turn the army on the people], ''Spiked'', 24 September 2013.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/we_dont_need_no_regulation/14134 We don’t need no regulation], ''Spiked'', 10 October 2013.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/why_so_many_are_still_missing_our_maddie/14151 Why so many are still missing ‘Our Maddie’], ''Spiked'', 15 October 2013.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/why_should_the_dpp_define_press_freedom/14188 Why should the DPP define press freedom?], ''Spiked'', 23 October 2013.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/journalism_found_guilty_of_being_too_free/14222 Press found guilty – of being too free], ''Spiked'', 31 October 2013.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/free_speech_war_II/14351 Free speech war II], ''Spiked'', 29 November 2013.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/who_wants_to_be_an_ethical_journalist/14382 Who wants to be an ‘ethical journalist’?], ''Spiked'', 5 December 2013.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/a_new_free_speech_outfit_for_less_press_freedom/14405 A new free-speech outfit – for less press freedom?], ''Spiked'', 11 December 2013.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/free_speech_a_year_of_living_undangerously/14446 Free speech: a year of living undangerously], ''Spiked'', 23 December 2013.
  
 
==Resources, References and Contact==
 
==Resources, References and Contact==

Revision as of 15:21, 20 July 2016

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

1998

Living Marxism/LM

1988

1989

1990

1991

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1993

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1995

1996

1997

Living Marxism became LM at issue 97 in February 1997.

1998

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Spiked

2001

2002

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2013

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
  11. Global Tobacco Networking Forum, Agenda 2010, Global Tobacco Networking Forum, Accessed 02-January-2013