Brendan O'Neill

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

War on Iran was not ‘unprovoked’

13 March 2026 4:15 pm

I’ve been thinking a lot about the phrase ‘unprovoked war’. It’s been rolling off leftist tongues since the explosion of…

Can you ‘identify’ as English?

10 March 2026 5:03 pm

There is not one drop of English blood in my body. I know this because, like many others, I succumbed…

Britain has never needed an ‘Islamophobia’ definition less

4 March 2026 5:00 pm

For the first time, I am grateful to Zack Polanski. For, in branding Keir Starmer ‘Islamophobic’ simply for criticising Mothin…

Morrissey is the last rock rebel

2 March 2026 11:14 pm

Two big pop events took place on Saturday. In Manchester, there was the Brit Awards. One by one the bourgeois…

The Islamo-left is coming to Parliament

28 February 2026 5:12 pm

Imagine if Matt Goodwin had given an interview to a media outlet that regularly platforms far-right agitators like Nick Griffin.…

How West Midlands Police became a tool of the anti-Jewish mob

24 February 2026 5:25 pm

The Home Affairs Committee report on the Maccabi Tel Aviv scandal has finally landed. And it is damning indeed. It…

The hunting of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor

21 February 2026 1:17 am

The first thing the mob kills is its own humanity. Long before they sink their collective claws into the target…

What happened to Speakers’ Corner?

19 February 2026 4:30 pm

We need to talk about Ahmed Mohammed. He’s a Sudanese asylum seeker in the UK, and this week he was spared…

Why was Jim Ratcliffe punished for speaking the truth?

13 February 2026 2:05 am

Imagine getting angrier over a word than a rape. This will go down in history as the week when there…

Couldn’t the Israelophobes give it a rest for one day?

10 February 2026 9:39 pm

Are Jews not allowed even one day of commemoration? Can’t they have just one sombre moment where they might remember…

The Epstein scandal has morphed into a moral panic

6 February 2026 4:35 pm

That’s it, I’m out. I’m finished with the Epstein scandal. This morning I read about a man who is on…

Why won’t the Green party use the word ‘Jews’?

2 February 2026 10:29 pm

Imagine talking about the Holocaust and not mentioning the Jews. It would be like holding forth on the transatlantic slave…

The Greens vs Reform by-election will expose Britain’s real dividing line

28 January 2026 9:38 pm

People are saying the Gorton and Denton by-election will be a showdown between the Greens and Reform. Between Zack Polanski’s…

London is finally about to show its support for a free Iran

16 January 2026 11:34 pm

Over the years, on the streets of London, I have heard so much praise for the Iranian regime and its…

Iran’s uprising and the moral bewilderment of Western youth

12 January 2026 9:55 pm

I’m starting to feel sorry for progressives who are schtum about the revolution in Iran. My contempt for them is…

Iran’s uprising and the moral bewilderment of Western youth

12 January 2026 4:30 pm

I’m starting to feel sorry for progressives who are schtum about the revolution in Iran. My contempt for them is…

The Birmingham Maccabi scandal proves multiculturalism has failed

8 January 2026 4:00 pm

Imagine if a UK police force had information suggesting white supremacists were planning to attack black football fans from overseas.…

The hypocrisy of the Maduro fanclub

6 January 2026 5:19 pm

Finally, the left has found a ‘kidnap victim’ it cares about. Having spent more than two years making excuses for…

The keffiyeh crew’s curious silence on Iran

4 January 2026 4:24 am

And just like that, the left loses interest in the Middle East. In 2025, they spoke of little else. They…

Keir Starmer will regret gushing over Alaa Abd el-Fattah

29 December 2025 1:23 am

‘Top priority.’ Those two words in Keir Starmer’s tweet about Alaa Abd el-Fattah stung the hardest. What an affront to…

What the word ‘intifada’ really means

19 December 2025 1:50 am

Finally the left is showing an interest in freedom of speech. And all it took was a police clampdown on…

The Bondi beach shooting was a pogrom

15 December 2025 1:20 am

This is not a time to mince words. Moral clarity is our sole duty on this dark day. What happened…

Primal Scream’s Nazi Star of David stunt is unforgivable

13 December 2025 4:52 pm

It’s hard, in 2025, to call out anti-Semitism. You’ll find yourself besieged by digital armies of apologists for bigotry. ‘It’s…

Why were these Afghan rapists even in Britain?

10 December 2025 12:52 am

Everything about that rape of a 15-year-old girl in Leamington Spa is horrifying. First and foremost, the barbaric act itself.…

The scandal of the Maccabi ban must not be allowed to fade

3 December 2025 3:54 am

The scandal of the Maccabi Tel Aviv ban keeps getting worse. Now we discover that West Midlands Police (WMP), in…