Brendan O'Neill

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

Now it’s the tranny-state

18 October 2014 9:00 am

The transgender community have become masters (er, mistresses?) of intolerance and offence-taking

The age of consent

27 September 2014 9:00 am

Universities are forcing undergraduates to attend sex education classes. Poor students

Set our footie fans free!

23 August 2014 9:00 am

‘Bubble matches’ sound like something quaint. In fact,they’re an outrage against civil liberties

A dark day for Australia

9 August 2014 9:00 am

Tony Abbott’s ‘leadership call’ on Section 18C is a double-whammy wallop in the face of liberty

The age of self-love

28 June 2014 9:00 am

Pro-masturbation campaigning is a cause for our narcissistic times

Just another witch hunt

28 June 2014 9:00 am

Should we really ostracise the opera singer Tamar Iveri?

Diary

10 May 2014 9:00 am

I knew from reading his book that Bob Carr was colossally vain. But still I’m stunned when, 90 seconds before…

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

Dare to be unaware

29 March 2014 9:00 am

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

Absent friends

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 first cut

19 October 2013 9:00 am

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

Self-pity doesn’t 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…