Brendan O'Neill

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

Why did we need the Supreme Court to tell us what a woman is?

16 April 2025 10:59 pm

How did it come to this? How did we arrive at a situation where it fell to a court of…

The moment in the ‘grooming gangs’ debate that shamed Jess Phillips

10 April 2025 1:43 am

We are all betrayed by our body language eventually. It’s our inner quisling, itching to expose to the world the…

Is Israel wrong to see Labour MPs as hostile actors?

7 April 2025 11:39 pm

Israel’s denial of entry to two Labour MPs is a truly shaming moment. Not for Israel, which, like all sovereign…

The truth about Israel’s ‘bloodlust’ in Gaza

4 April 2025 9:11 pm

Are we being lied to, or at the very least misled, about what’s going on in Gaza? It increasingly seems…

Why does Zarah Sultana want an airport in Mirpur?

31 March 2025 7:05 am

So Zarah Sultana, the MP for Coventry South, is in favour of building airports now? That’s a turnaround. In January…

Why are there more protests against Hamas in Gaza than Britain?

27 March 2025 1:48 am

You’re more likely to see a protest against Hamas in Gaza than in London. For brave, spirited agitation against this…

Why don’t we hear more about Israel’s stunning blow against Hamas’s fascists?

20 March 2025 12:49 am

Imagine if, following an Allied raid on Nazi positions, the newspapers the next day told us about nothing but the…

Happy St Patrick’s Day – but not for Ireland’s Jews

18 March 2025 2:23 am

‘Céad míle fáilte’, the Irish love to say. It means ‘a hundred thousand welcomes’. It’s emblazoned in the arrivals hall…

Migrants who hate Jews shouldn’t be allowed in Britain

11 March 2025 4:30 pm

If you’re a foreigner who hates Jews, should you be allowed to move to Britain? For me it’s a no-brainer:…

What’s the real reason some on the right hate Volodymyr Zelensky?

3 March 2025 11:30 pm

Perusing the Zelensky-bashing of the Very Online right, I found myself thinking: ‘This reminds me of something.’ The branding of…

The BBC’s Gaza farce takes another sinister turn

27 February 2025 1:11 am

So the moral rot at the BBC appears to run even deeper than we thought. The storm over its Gaza…

Hamas’s final torment of the Bibas family

22 February 2025 12:39 am

So Hamas has committed yet another act of depravity against the Bibas family. It said Shiri Bibas was in one…

The incalculable evil of Hamas’s coffin stunt

21 February 2025 2:05 am

We need to talk about what we witnessed in Gaza today. The sick ceremonial handover of the bodies of slain…

Is Pope Francis Rory Stewart in a frock?

12 February 2025 10:15 pm

Imagine living in your own holy fiefdom, with some of the strictest security on earth, and lecturing other nations about…

The call that shames the pro-Palestine movement

8 February 2025 3:48 am

Some of us switch off when we hear a ‘loony left’ story. We might cock an eyebrow at the latest…

Donald Trump is liberating the US from the transgender madness

7 February 2025 1:04 am

I thought Donald Trump was a woman-hater? The Guardian told us he’s a ‘far-right misogynist’ whose return to the White…

Burning a Quran shouldn’t be a crime

4 February 2025 4:03 am

England ditched its blasphemy laws back in 2008. No longer would it be an offence to engage in ‘contemptuous, reviling,…

Why are ‘anti-racists’ silent about Arbel Yehud’s terrible ordeal?

31 January 2025 1:48 am

Watching Arbel Yehud being freed in Gaza today, I thought to myself: this is what it must have been like…

The ‘dejudification’ of the Holocaust

29 January 2025 4:23 am

Imagine talking about the transatlantic slave trade and not saying the word African. Or discussing the genocidal slaughter in Rwanda…

No, Elon Musk didn’t make a fascist salute

21 January 2025 9:40 pm

We’re not even 24 hours into the second Donald Trump term and already there’s a ‘New Nazis’ panic. Only this…

Did we learn anything from Charlie Hebdo?

7 January 2025 6:00 pm

Ten years ago today, two men armed with Kalashinikovs barged into the offices of Charlie Hebdo in Paris and opened…

Why is Israel being blamed for the battle of Kamal Adwan Hospital?

31 December 2024 7:35 pm

Every good reporter knows you never bury the lede. You never smother the key point of a story with fluff…

Israel is right to cut ties with Ireland

16 December 2024 10:29 pm

Everything that has gone wrong in modern Ireland is summed up in the fact that it is winning praise from…

Stop idolising Luigi Mangione

11 December 2024 2:49 am

So according to the modern left, killing the fascists of Hamas is ‘genocide’, but killing a CEO and father of…

There’s nothing radical about flying the Palestine flag

29 November 2024 4:28 pm

I have a confession to make: when those Maccabi Tel Aviv fans tore down a Palestine flag in Amsterdam a…