Brendan O'Neill

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

It feels good to see the return of the St George’s Cross

19 August 2025 10:27 pm

There you have it: in certain parts of England it’s easier to fly the Palestine flag than the English flag.…

Uefa’s ‘Stop killing children’ banner isn’t fooling anyone

15 August 2025 2:48 am

Who does Uefa think it’s kidding? It says the huge banner saying ‘Stop killing children’ unfurled at a Super Cup…

I’m embracing my inner Karen

11 August 2025 4:00 pm

I told off four strangers last week. The first was a foreign gentleman lounging on a side lawn at Marble…

The West has rewarded Hamas for the torture of Evyatar David

4 August 2025 4:52 pm

They’re making Jews dig their own graves again. In grim mimicry of their Nazi heroes, who would often force Jews…

Edinburgh Fringe is becoming a Jew-free zone

28 July 2025 8:36 pm

Is the Edinburgh Fringe a Judenfrei zone now? With just a week to go before the Fringe kicks off, Jewish…

James O’Brien has disgraced himself

24 July 2025 12:46 am

For a man who wrote a book called How To Be Right, James O’Brien sure gets a lot wrong. Consider…

The shamelessness of Diane Abbott

18 July 2025 9:21 pm

Labour was dead right to suspend Diane Abbott. Britain is experiencing one of the worst eruptions of anti-Jewish hatred in…

Why is Bob Vylan free but Lucy Connolly in prison?

5 July 2025 3:33 pm

So now we know. Now we know that Bob Vylan’s sick chant at Glastonbury was not a colourfully worded call…

Glastonbury has become a sinister festival of anti-Semitism

29 June 2025 10:53 pm

They’re chanting for the death of Jews at Glastonbury. Yesterday a swaying mob of faux-virtuous poseurs blithely howled for ‘Death,…

Zohran Mamdani and the Hipster Intifada

26 June 2025 12:14 am

I see Generation Intifada has a new hero. Those rich white kids who never leave the house without their keffiyeh…

How dare Sally Rooney ‘admire’ Palestine Action

24 June 2025 2:20 am

I’m old enough to remember when it was neo-Nazis who smashed up Jewish-owned businesses. Now it’s so-called progressives. Not long…

The establishment was more afraid of ‘the gammon’ than the groomers

17 June 2025 10:26 pm

‘When history is written as it ought to be written’, said the great Trinidadian Marxist CLR James, ‘it is the…

Did Greta Thunberg refuse to watch the October 7 video?

10 June 2025 10:06 pm

Did Greta Thunberg refuse to watch footage of Hamas’s 7 October atrocities? That’s the accusation being made by Israel’s defence…

Leo Varadkar and the real story of the Imane Khelif gender scandal

8 June 2025 4:10 pm

Remember when Leo Varadkar egged on someone with male strength who was punching women in the face? It sounds made up,…

Ireland has been consumed by hatred of Israel

2 June 2025 4:57 pm

A new religion blights the Republic of Ireland. Catholicism has been supplanted by a far more cultish creed. Its doctrines…

Why did the Met arrest a Jewish man for mocking Hezbollah?

25 May 2025 12:06 am

It’s the 21st century and Jews are being arrested for making fun of fascists. The Telegraph has revealed that last…

The UN’s claim about babies dying in Gaza is unravelling

22 May 2025 3:33 am

Just when you thought Israel couldn’t be any more evil, yesterday we learned that thousands of babies are set to…

Gary Lineker and the truth about toxic centrism

20 May 2025 12:25 am

What happened to Gary Lineker? For years he was football’s Mr Nice Guy. To some he was the Steve Davis…

The anti-Israel Eurovision mob are Hamas’s little helpers

17 May 2025 12:11 am

Imagine booing a survivor of a fascist attack. People actually did that this week. Pro-Palestine activists heckled and insulted a…

How America betrayed Edan Alexander

13 May 2025 3:09 am

When a US citizen, just 19, was taken captive by a fascist militia, what did America’s progressives do? They cosplayed…

The ugly truth about Lucy Powell’s grooming gangs comments

4 May 2025 10:27 pm

This week Lucy Powell, leader of the House of Commons, did something unusual for a politician: she spoke from the…

Has Keir Starmer watched Groomed: A National Scandal yet?

1 May 2025 9:04 pm

I look forward to Keir Starmer hosting a special summit on the Channel 4 documentary, Groomed. And to hearing him…

Kneecap’s phoney punk act has been unmasked

29 April 2025 10:33 pm

If someone pulled on a Ku Klux Klan hood and went up on a stage and shouted ‘Up the KKK!’,…

Kneecap’s Israelophobia has gone too far

23 April 2025 11:03 pm

The day after the Nova music festival massacre, the Irish band Kneecap posted a photo of themselves grinning from ear…

The trans-rights movement’s howl of male rage

21 April 2025 12:20 am

They defaced the statue of Millicent Fawcett. That’s all you need to know about yesterday’s march for ‘trans rights’. Someone…