Brendan O'Neill

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

Don’t be fooled by the twee placards at the People’s Vote march

26 March 2019 12:24 am

I’ve had a lot of flak for describing Saturday’s march for a ‘People’s Vote’ as ‘disturbing’. Angry emailers inform me…

Australian notes

15 December 2018 9:00 am

Good trouble I arrive in Australia to feverish talk of a rebellion. There has been a ‘teenage revolt’. A mass…

White fright

9 June 2018 9:00 am

In the freakish universe of identity politics, there’s no creature sadder than the self-hating white person. All it takes for…

LA used to be fun – dope has just made it dull

25 November 2017 9:00 am

Los Angeles stinks. Not just of the usual things: sex, money, suntan oil, hipster food, surfer wax — odours that…

New York notes

18 November 2017 9:00 am

Tantamount to a speechcrime New York is wonderfully offensive. Offensive to nature with its gravity-defying towers. Offensive to the tragic,…

University challenge

26 August 2017 9:00 am

In a few weeks, a new intake of students will arrive, all fresh-faced and excited, at universities around the country.…

Our survey proves just how horrible you are

12 August 2017 9:00 am

This month the Australian Human Rights Commission lied to the nation. And it knows it did.  It told Australians that…

Tantrum of the climate alarmists

1 April 2017 9:00 am

Of all the hot air blown out by eco-alarmists, their maddest claim, the one least founded in truth, is that…

Bureaucrats and barbarians

18 March 2017 9:00 am

We have mourned Bill Leak. Now we must avenge him. The time for tears has passed. It’s anger we need…

The students fight back

8 October 2016 9:00 am

Last week, students at York University staged a walkout from the sexual consent classes organised by their student union women’s…

Diary

3 September 2016 9:00 am

As I was leaving the sweaty Q&A set at the Docklands Studios in Melbourne, a lefty dweeb in the audience…

Diary

1 September 2016 1:00 pm

As I was leaving the sweaty Q&A set at the Docklands Studios in Melbourne, a lefty dweeb in the audience…

Leakphobia

13 August 2016 9:00 am

What could a trendy, tattooed, godless leftie in the hippest bit of Melbourne possibly have in common with an Isis-admiring…

We are not a hateful nation

6 August 2016 9:00 am

Britain is in the grip of an epidemic, apparently. An epidemic of hate. Barely a day passes without some policeman…

Not thick or racist: just poor

2 July 2016 9:00 am

The most striking thing about Britain’s break with the EU is this: it’s the poor wot done it. Council-estate dwellers,…

Ward of the nanny state

11 June 2016 9:00 am

If you want to know what someone utterly bereft of shame looks like, look no further than the lefitsh defenders…

The internet’s war on free speech

14 May 2016 9:00 am

The web was meant to empower us all. Right now, it’s empowering censors

Fallen idol

23 April 2016 9:00 am

Germaine Greer falls foul of the speech-policing tranny state

Defending Mitchell

6 February 2016 9:00 am

The scandal that reveals Australia’s real moral crisis

Boomerphobia

14 November 2015 9:00 am

How Generation Whinge are thieving from their elders

The new wowserism

5 September 2015 9:00 am

Thanks to the intolerant orthodoxies of the Left, ordinary conservative Australians are now moral larrikins

Aping racism

22 August 2015 9:00 am

The behaviour and attitudes of today’s anti-racists bears an uncanny resemblance to, er, racism

The brave thing now: don’t write about your death

25 July 2015 9:00 am

In the social media age, breaking ‘the last taboo’ is de rigueur

Clash of the gay-marriage glory-hunters

13 June 2015 9:00 am

From corporations to politicians, everyone’s looking to purify themselves via gay marriage

Sex, lies and, er, rape

28 February 2015 9:00 am

A recent conviction in the ACT makes rapists of us all