Brendan O'Neill

is editor of spiked. He has written for The Spectator, New Statesman, The Guardian, Christian Science Monitor, Slate and Salon.

Stephen Fry has turned Twitter into an enemy of free speech

Brendan O'Neill: In Stephen Fry's hands, Twitter has become an authoritarian tool

First Posted October 20, 2009

We've found a new way to exploit these relics of the British Empire

First Posted July 28, 2009

The only difference between Antichrist and Barely Legal is that one is meant for middle-class audiences at arthouse cinemas

First Posted July 23, 2009

The Guardian is trying to bring the tabloid down with one of Labour's most illiberal pieces of legislation

First Posted July 14, 2009

By focusing on the student protests in Tiananmen Square Western liberals ignore the bigger tragedy

First Posted June 3, 2009

Celebrity hunger strikes are nothing more than self-promoting detox programmes that ignore the facts

First Posted May 12, 2009

Sensationalised coverage has made the British media a laughing stock

First Posted May 6, 2009

The Guardian is guilty of the pornography of death with its repetition of images of the news vendor's end

First Posted April 24, 2009