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Brendan O'Neill

Brendan O'Neill is the editor of Spiked and a columnist for The Australian and The Big Issue.

Labour, Question Time and the cult of youth

Brendan O'Neill 9 December 2019 18:00

When’s the Question Time for over-60s, then? Or maybe even over-75s? After all, elderly people face specific social problems: pension…

Boris Johnson and the ‘piccaninny’ smear

Brendan O'Neill 30 November 2019 8:30

Boris Johnson likes to call black people ‘piccaninnies’. Everyone’s saying it. Even Stormzy said it this week in his endorsement…

Channel 4’s climate change debate was a sham

Brendan O'Neill 29 November 2019 13:24

I’ve seen some mad political debates in my time, but none as bonkers as last night’s climate debate on Channel…

Coldplay’s sanctimonious politics is as boring as their music

Brendan O'Neill 21 November 2019 15:54

Everyone, use as much plastic as you can. Drive your diesel cars everywhere. Refuse to recycle. Fly long-haul. Do everything…

Prince Andrew is a creep but he’s innocent until proven guilty

Brendan O'Neill 18 November 2019 12:41

Prince Andrew is a creep. But he’s not the only one. There is also something creepy about the public shaming…

What Hillary Clinton doesn’t understand about Brexit

Brendan O'Neill 12 November 2019 16:49

Is anyone else watching Hillary Clinton’s whirlwind trip to the UK and thinking to themselves: ‘Thank God she didn’t become…

Jean-Claude Juncker’s staggering hypocrisy

Brendan O'Neill 4 November 2019 17:46

Jean-Claude Juncker has got some front. Today, to the glee of Boris-bashers and hardcore Remainers, he has accused Boris of…

The joy of the People’s Vote meltdown

Brendan O'Neill 28 October 2019 16:04

Anyone else enjoying the falling apart of the People’s Vote campaign? It’s one of the funniest news stories I’ve read…

Why David Lammy should join the Brexit camp

Brendan O'Neill 24 October 2019 17:02

For three-and-a-half years Brexiteers have been told that we didn’t know what we were voting for. I think that might…

Let’s be honest about what a second referendum means

Brendan O'Neill 22 October 2019 6:30

A second referendum would be a political abomination. And it’s about time more of us said so. We need to…

Lewis Hamilton and the unbearable climate change hypocrites

Brendan O'Neill 16 October 2019 16:47

By now we’re all used to being lectured by woke hypocritical celebs. But Lewis Hamilton’s suggestion that we all turn…

Sadiq Khan’s selective concern about ‘voter suppression’

Brendan O'Neill 14 October 2019 13:35

Sadiq Khan has got some front. He is complaining about the government’s voter ID plans, claiming it will lead to…

Extinction Rebellion is a menace

Brendan O'Neill 8 October 2019 12:55

It’s tempting to laugh at Extinction Rebellion. I do it myself frequently. Those yoga sessions on Westminster Bridge. The amateur…

Yes, Trump’s tweet was racist. But BBC rules stop presenters saying so

Brendan O'Neill 30 September 2019 9:41

All of the following things are true. Naga Munchetty, co-host of BBC Breakfast, is a very good TV journalist, one…

Brexit voters do feel betrayed. So why can’t Boris say so?

Brendan O'Neill 26 September 2019 12:39

Rarely has there been such a flagrant display of hypocrisy and cant as there was in the House of Commons…

Emily Thornberry’s political wardrobe malfunction

Brendan O'Neill 23 September 2019 14:02

These days everyone in politics is obsessed with ‘optics’, with making sure they never do or say anything that might…

Justin Trudeau is a fool but we should still forgive him

Brendan O'Neill 19 September 2019 16:32

If you live by the sword of wokeness, you might die by it too. Justin Trudeau is about to find…

Lib Dems are the real Brexit extremists

Brendan O'Neill 16 September 2019 13:04

The Lib Dems are now the most extremist party in the UK. They might not look like extremists, being made…

John Bercow’s seething contempt for Brexiteers

Brendan O'Neill 10 September 2019 11:48

Anyone who doubted that John Bercow is an arrogant blowhard who harbours a seething contempt for Brexiteers will surely have…

There’s nothing brave about the so-called ‘Tory rebels’

Brendan O'Neill 3 September 2019 16:51

I have a real problem with the term ‘Tory rebels’. Because it’s questionable, to put it gently, that either of…

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