Brendan O'Neill

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

In praise of Big Coal

26 April 2014 9:00 am

Through its coal-digging antics, Oz has made itself the midwife of a new era of progress around the world

A culture war on whaling

5 April 2014 9:00 am

Australia’s successful international block on Japan’s business represents the nanny state gone global

Please stop trying to raise my awareness

29 March 2014 9:00 am

Once, campaigners and charities tried to fight social evils. Now they just tell us about them

Israelis don’t care that we hate them. But they’d like to know why

15 March 2014 9:00 am

Israelis’ theories on why it’s fashionable for the West to despise them

Trollhunters are a menace to the internet

1 March 2014 9:00 am

Don’t blame Twitter for the tragic death of Charlotte Dawson

The latest anti-Semitic cry: ban circumcision

19 October 2013 9:00 am

The thinking of those who seek to ban circumcision is dreary, backwards – and often anti-Semitic

Why interns don’t deserve pay

17 August 2013 9:00 am

The ‘intern justice’ movement is preposterous – and damaging

The making of a myth

17 January 2013 2:00 pm

When John Kelly was transported from Tipperary to Tasmania in 1841, for stealing pigs, he couldn’t have imagined that 170…

The making of a myth

17 January 2013 2:00 pm

When John Kelly was transported from Tipperary to Tasmania in 1841, for stealing pigs, he couldn’t have imagined that 170…