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Since then, O'Neill has contributed articles to publications in the United Kingdom, the United States and Australia including ''[[The Spectator]]'', the ''[[New Statesman]]'', [[BBC News Online]], ''[[The Christian Science Monitor]]'', ''[[The American Conservative]]'', ''[[Salon (website)|Salon]]'', ''[[Rising East]]'' and occasionally blogged for ''[[The Guardian]]'',<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/global/2008/jun/03/brendanoneill|title=Brendan O'Neill Profile|publisher=guardian.co.uk|access-date=2009-03-02 | location=London | date=3 June 2008}}</ref> before moving to ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]''.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/author/brendanoneill2/|title=Brendan O'Neill|publisher=Telegraph Media Group|access-date=2012-07-01|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110109070250/http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/author/brendanoneill2/|archive-date=9 January 2011|df=dmy-all}}</ref> He writes a column for ''[[The Big Issue]]'' in London and ''[[The Australian]]'' in Sydney. He also writes articles for ''[[The Sun (United Kingdom)|The Sun]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://muckrack.com/brendan-oneill/articles|title=Articles by Brendan O'Neill &#124; The Spectator Journalist &#124; Muck Rack|website=muckrack.com}}</ref>
Since then, O'Neill has contributed articles to publications in the United Kingdom, the United States and Australia including ''[[The Spectator]]'', the ''[[New Statesman]]'', [[BBC News Online]], ''[[The Christian Science Monitor]]'', ''[[The American Conservative]]'', ''[[Salon (website)|Salon]]'', ''[[Rising East]]'' and occasionally blogged for ''[[The Guardian]]'',<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/global/2008/jun/03/brendanoneill|title=Brendan O'Neill Profile|publisher=guardian.co.uk|access-date=2009-03-02 | location=London | date=3 June 2008}}</ref> before moving to ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]''.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/author/brendanoneill2/|title=Brendan O'Neill|publisher=Telegraph Media Group|access-date=2012-07-01|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110109070250/http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/author/brendanoneill2/|archive-date=9 January 2011|df=dmy-all}}</ref> He writes a column for ''[[The Big Issue]]'' in London and ''[[The Australian]]'' in Sydney. He also writes articles for ''[[The Sun (United Kingdom)|The Sun]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://muckrack.com/brendan-oneill/articles|title=Articles by Brendan O'Neill &#124; The Spectator Journalist &#124; Muck Rack|website=muckrack.com}}</ref>

O'Neill has served{{when|date=December 2020}} as a visiting fellow and columnist with the Australian right-wing think-tank, the [[Centre for Independent Studies]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.cis.org.au/research-scholars/contributors/author/656-oneill-brendan|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150108163459/http://www.cis.org.au/research-scholars/contributors/author/656-oneill-brendan|url-status=dead|title=Centre for Independent Studies – Brendan O'Neill|archive-date=8 January 2015}}</ref>{{Primary source inline|date=December 2020}} as well as being a keynote speaker{{when|date=December 2020}} for the pro-Israel advocacy organisation [[StandWithUs]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.standwithus.co.il/student-conference/|title=StandWithUs UK 5th Annual Student Conference}}</ref>{{Verify source|date=December 2020}}

Writing as the fictional character "Ethan Greenhart", O'Neill is the author of ''Can I Recycle My Granny?'', a satire of the green movement published by Hodder & Stoughton in 2008.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=i9rtAAAAMAAJ&q=ethan%20greenhart%20brendan%20o%27neill ''Can I Recycle My Granny?: And 39 Other Eco-Dilemmas''], Ethan Greenhart, Hodder & Stoughton, 2008</ref>{{Verify source|date=December 2020}}


==Views==
==Views==
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===Northern Ireland===
===Northern Ireland===


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O'Neill is a supporter of a [[united Ireland]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Today with Sean O'Rourke, RTE Radio 1 18/12/20 at 1.11.35|url=https://www.rte.ie/radio1/today-with-sean-o-rourke/programmes/2018/1218/1017876-today-with-sean-orourke-tuesday-18-december-2018/|publisher=Raidió Teilifís Éireann|access-date=29 December 2020}}</ref> He was critical of the 1998 [[Good Friday Agreement]], which [[Sinn Féin]] and the [[Provisional IRA]] supported. O'Neill wrote, in a 1998 issue of ''[[Living Marxism]]'', "The new peace deal is a disgrace... The biggest losers in all this are the republican movement... [W]hat exactly will the republican communities gain at the end of their 25-year struggle? Sinn Fein and the IRA have not just agreed to down arms. They have effectively signed away everything they once stood for, accepting that there will not be a [[united Ireland]]."<ref>{{cite news |url= http://www.informinc.co.uk/LM/LM110/LM110_Ireland.html/ |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20000308013016/http://www.informinc.co.uk/LM/LM110/LM110_Ireland.html/ |url-status= dead |archive-date= 2000-03-08 |title= A peace of nothing|date= May 1998 |first= Brendan |last= O'Neill |work= Living Marxism}}</ref><ref name="Aaronovitch 2019">{{cite web | last=Aaronovitch | first=David | title=The shadowy past of Farage's motley crew – Comment | website=The Times | date=2019-04-24 | url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/the-shadowy-past-of-farage-s-motley-crew-5rmdzv638 | access-date=2020-12-28}}</ref>
O'Neill is a supporter of a [[united Ireland]], having said that former [[Taoiseach]] [[Leo Varadkar]] is "not the ruler of the [[Northern Ireland|six counties]], unfortunately, in my view. I am in favour of [[Irish unity]], as it happens."<ref>{{cite web|title=Today with Sean O'Rourke, RTE Radio 1 18/12/20 at 1.11.35|url=https://www.rte.ie/radio1/today-with-sean-o-rourke/programmes/2018/1218/1017876-today-with-sean-orourke-tuesday-18-december-2018/|publisher=Raidió Teilifís Éireann|access-date=29 December 2020}}</ref>

O'Neill has described the [[Orange Order]] as an "organisation which was founded in 1795 with the sole purpose of intimidating Catholics and Irish nationalists"
and which "played an important role in defending the sectarian set-up in Northern Ireland and in ensuring that Catholics were denied their basic civil rights." O'Neill has also been critical of the [[Parades Commission]] established to monitor [[parades in Northern Ireland]].<ref>{{cite news |url= http://www.informinc.co.uk/LM/LM106/LM106_Parades.html |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20000301154143/http://www.informinc.co.uk/LM/LM106/LM106_Parades.html |url-status= dead |archive-date= 2000-03-01 |title= Mo Mowlam's marching orders|date= January 1998 |first= Brendan |last= O'Neill |work= Living Marxism}}</ref>

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O'Neill was critical of the 1998 [[Good Friday Agreement]], which [[Sinn Féin]] and the [[Provisional IRA]] supported. O'Neill wrote, in a 1998 issue of ''[[Living Marxism]]'', "The new peace deal is a disgrace... The biggest losers in all this are the republican movement... [W]hat exactly will the republican communities gain at the end of their 25-year struggle? Sinn Fein and the IRA have not just agreed to down arms. They have effectively signed away everything they once stood for, accepting that there will not be a [[united Ireland]]."<ref>{{cite news |url= http://www.informinc.co.uk/LM/LM110/LM110_Ireland.html/ |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20000308013016/http://www.informinc.co.uk/LM/LM110/LM110_Ireland.html/ |url-status= dead |archive-date= 2000-03-08 |title= A peace of nothing|date= May 1998 |first= Brendan |last= O'Neill |work= Living Marxism}}</ref><ref name="Aaronovitch 2019">{{cite web | last=Aaronovitch | first=David | title=The shadowy past of Farage's motley crew – Comment | website=The Times | date=2019-04-24 | url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/the-shadowy-past-of-farage-s-motley-crew-5rmdzv638 | access-date=2020-12-28}}</ref>

===Sexual abuse===

In a 2012 ''[[HuffPost|Huffington Post]]'' article,<ref name="O'Neill12">{{cite news|last=O'Neill|first=Brendan|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/brendan-oneill/jimmy-savile-child-abuse_b_2017326.html|title=If You Were Abused By Jimmy Savile, Maybe You Should Keep It to Yourself|work=[[The Huffington Post]]|date=26 December 2012|access-date=20 October 2017}}</ref> O'Neill argued against victims of sexual abuse by high-profile individuals like [[Sir Jimmy Savile]] coming forward publicly, stating: "I think there is more virtue in keeping the abuse as a firm part of your past, rather than offering it up to a scandal-hungry media and abuse-obsessed society that are desperate for more episodes of perversion to pore over".<ref name="O'Neill12"/>

===Homosexuality===

O'Neill says that the depiction of homophobia as "a mental disorder" mirrors the way that homosexuality was once depicted,<ref name="Left Foot Forward 2020">{{cite web | title=Spiked accused of falling for pro-UAE disinformation campaign | website=Left Foot Forward | date=2020-07-07 | url=https://leftfootforward.org/2020/07/spiked-accused-of-falling-for-pro-uae-disinformation-campaign/ | access-date=2020-12-28}}</ref> and criticized the legalization of [[History_of_same-sex_marriage_in_Australia|same-sex marriage in Australia]], made possible by public referendum, arguing that it has been "attended by [[authoritarianism]] wherever it's been introduced." He cited concerns it may impinge on [[Freedom of religion|religious freedom]] and feared the demonization of those who disagreed with the expansion of marriage.<ref>{{ cite news | title=Gay marriage and the death of freedom | url=https://www.spectator.com.au/2014/12/gay-marriage-and-the-death-of-freedom/|date = 6 December 2014|work = The Spectator}}</ref>

===Transgender Issues===
Brendan O'Neill is a steadfast defender of the [[anti-gender movement]] and a strong critic of the [[transgender rights movement]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.newsweek.com/joe-rogan-roxanne-tickle-sall-grover-giggle-girls-lawsuit-1892195|title=Female-Only App CEO Sends Message to Joe Rogan|author=Ryan Smith|website=[[Newsweek]]|date=April 19, 2024|accessdate=April 20, 2024}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9FHwmZLZ18|title=Brendan O'Neill criticises transgender activists over JK Rowling abuse. - YouTube|website=[[YouTube]]|date=July 20, 2021|accessdate=April 20, 2024}}</ref>

===Racism===

In 2020, when football fans booed players [[U.S. national anthem protests (2016–present)|taking a knee to protest racism]], he wrote that it showed "their disapproval of the colonisation of the beautiful game by the divisive cult of identity politics" and a working class reaction against the "virtue-signalling nonsense of [[Black Lives Matter]]". He has also described the right-wing [[Football Lads Alliance]] as a "working-class movement" against "terrorism and the ideologies that fuel it".<ref name="openDemocracy 2020">{{cite web | title=From football hooligans to 'one of us': a short history of reaction | website=openDemocracy | date=2020-11-26 | url=https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/can-europe-make-it/from-football-hooligans-to-one-of-us-a-short-history-of-reaction/ | access-date=2020-12-28}}</ref>


===Environmentalism===
===Environmentalism===


O'Neill has said that the environmental movement has become a "religious cult"<ref name="Plummer 2019">{{cite web | last=Plummer | first=Kate | title=All the worst right-wing hysteria about the climate strike | website=Scram News | date=2019-09-20 | url=https://scramnews.com/right-wing-hysteria-climate-strike/ | access-date=2020-12-28}}</ref> that is "waging war on the working class".<ref name="Dazed 2019">{{cite web | author=Dazed | title=Don't be fooled into thinking that climate activism is just for poshos | website=Dazed | date=2019-10-17 | url=https://www.dazeddigital.com/politics/article/46460/1/extinction-rebellion-climate-change-activism-middle-class-issue | access-date=2020-12-28}}</ref> He was later criticised for comments about the Swedish environmentalist activist [[Greta Thunberg]]<ref name="Hancock">{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/apr/25/greta-thunberg-autism-spectrum-critics|author=Charlie Hancock|title=Like Greta Thunberg, I am on the autism spectrum. She gives me hope|work=[[The Guardian]]|date= 25 April 2019|access-date=23 August 2019}}</ref><ref name="Moran">{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/greta-thunberg-parliament-meeting-brendan-oneill-a8882961.html|first=Layla|last=Moran|author-link=Layla Moran|title=Greta Thunberg has changed the course of history – what has Brendan O'Neill achieved?|work=[[The Independent]]|date=23 April 2019|access-date=23 August 2019}}</ref><ref name="Hope">{{cite web | last=Hope | first=Mat | title=Attacks on Greta Thunberg Come from a Coordinated Network of Climate Change Deniers | website=Teen Vogue | date=23 September 2019 | url=https://www.teenvogue.com/story/attacks-greta-thunberg-climate-deniers | access-date=2020-12-28}}</ref><ref name="Silberman 2019">{{cite web | last=Silberman | first=Steve | title=Greta Thunberg became a climate activist not in spite of her autism, but because of it | website=Vox | date=2019-05-06 | url=https://www.vox.com/first-person/2019/5/6/18531551/greta-thunberg-autism-aspergers | access-date=2020-12-28}}</ref>. O'Neill has described warnings concerning [[overpopulation]] as a "[[Malthusian]]" interference in a women's right to reproductive freedom.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Revkin |first1=Andrew C. |author-link1=Andrew Revkin |title=Deconstructing a Bestiary of Malthusian 'Miserabilists' |url=https://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/19/deconstructing-a-bestiary-of-malthusian-miserabilists/ |access-date=20 September 2020 |work=Dot Earth |publisher=The New York Times Blog |date=19 January 2011}}</ref>
O'Neill has said that the environmental movement has become a "religious cult"<ref name="Plummer 2019">{{cite web | last=Plummer | first=Kate | title=All the worst right-wing hysteria about the climate strike | website=Scram News | date=2019-09-20 | url=https://scramnews.com/right-wing-hysteria-climate-strike/ | access-date=2020-12-28}}</ref> that is "waging war on the working class".<ref name="Dazed 2019">{{cite web | author=Dazed | title=Don't be fooled into thinking that climate activism is just for poshos | website=Dazed | date=2019-10-17 | url=https://www.dazeddigital.com/politics/article/46460/1/extinction-rebellion-climate-change-activism-middle-class-issue | access-date=2020-12-28}}</ref> He was later criticised for comments about the Swedish environmentalist activist [[Greta Thunberg]].<ref name="Hancock">{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/apr/25/greta-thunberg-autism-spectrum-critics|author=Charlie Hancock|title=Like Greta Thunberg, I am on the autism spectrum. She gives me hope|work=[[The Guardian]]|date= 25 April 2019|access-date=23 August 2019}}</ref><ref name="Moran">{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/greta-thunberg-parliament-meeting-brendan-oneill-a8882961.html|first=Layla|last=Moran|author-link=Layla Moran|title=Greta Thunberg has changed the course of history – what has Brendan O'Neill achieved?|work=[[The Independent]]|date=23 April 2019|access-date=23 August 2019}}</ref><ref name="Hope">{{cite web | last=Hope | first=Mat | title=Attacks on Greta Thunberg Come from a Coordinated Network of Climate Change Deniers | website=Teen Vogue | date=23 September 2019 | url=https://www.teenvogue.com/story/attacks-greta-thunberg-climate-deniers | access-date=2020-12-28}}</ref><ref name="Silberman 2019">{{cite web | last=Silberman | first=Steve | title=Greta Thunberg became a climate activist not in spite of her autism, but because of it | website=Vox | date=2019-05-06 | url=https://www.vox.com/first-person/2019/5/6/18531551/greta-thunberg-autism-aspergers | access-date=2020-12-28}}</ref> O'Neill has described warnings concerning [[overpopulation]] as a "[[Malthusian]]" interference in a women's right to reproductive freedom.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Revkin |first1=Andrew C. |author-link1=Andrew Revkin |title=Deconstructing a Bestiary of Malthusian 'Miserabilists' |url=https://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/19/deconstructing-a-bestiary-of-malthusian-miserabilists/ |access-date=20 September 2020 |work=Dot Earth |publisher=The New York Times Blog |date=19 January 2011}}</ref> In 2020, in relation to [[COVID-19]], he has argued that "this pandemic has shown us what life would be like if environmentalists got their way".<ref name="Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists">{{cite web | title=Virus aftermath: Optimism or pessimism about its effect on climate change? | website=Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists | date=17 April 2020 | url=https://thebulletin.org/2020/04/virus-aftermath-optimism-or-pessimism-about-its-effect-on-climate-change/ | access-date=2020-12-28}}</ref><ref name="Hope Derler Hope 2020">{{cite web | last1=Hope | first1=Mat | last2=Derler | first2=Zak | last3=Hope | first3=Mat | title=The Coronavirus Crisis: The Dangerous Crossover Between Climate and COVID Denial – Byline Times | website=Byline Times | date=2020-04-01 | url=https://bylinetimes.com/2020/04/01/the-coronavirus-crisis-the-dangerous-crossover-between-climate-and-covid-denial/ | access-date=2020-12-28}}</ref>


===Brexit===
===Brexit===


In September 2019, he said on the BBC's ''[[Politics Live]]'' that British people should be rioting about delays to [[Brexit]].<ref>{{cite web |publisher=Newsweek |date=27 September 2019 |url=https://www.newsweek.com/brexit-riots-bbc-guest-eu-protests-1461795 |title=BBC guest says people should riot over Brexit delays: 'Why have the British people been so patient?'}}</ref> He said: "I'm amazed that there haven't been riots yet." When asked by guest presenter [[Adam Fleming (journalist)|Adam Fleming]]: "Do you think there will be riots?", O'Neill responded: "I think there should be." In October 2019, 585 complaints about him calling for riots were dismissed by the BBC's executive complaints unit.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Tobbitt |first1=Charlotte |title=BBC dismisses 600 complaints over Brendan O'Neill's Brexit riots claim on Politics Live |url=https://www.pressgazette.co.uk/bbc-dismisses-600-complaints-brendan-oneill-spiked-brexit-leavers-riot-politics-live/ |website=Press Gazette |date=14 October 2019 |access-date=15 October 2019}}</ref> In 2020, O'Neill called for loud, open celebrations of Brexit, which formally took place on 31 January 2020, describing such celebrations as celebrations of democracy.<ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/ignore-the-brexit-day-party-poopers-it-s-time-to-celebrate| title = Ignore the Brexit day party poopers – it's time to celebrate {{!}} The Spectator| date = 31 January 2020}} </ref>
In September 2019, he said on the BBC's ''[[Politics Live]]'' that British people should be rioting about delays to [[Brexit]].<ref>{{cite web |publisher=Newsweek |date=27 September 2019 |url=https://www.newsweek.com/brexit-riots-bbc-guest-eu-protests-1461795 |title=BBC guest says people should riot over Brexit delays: 'Why have the British people been so patient?'}}</ref> He said: "I'm amazed that there haven't been riots yet." When asked by guest presenter [[Adam Fleming (journalist)|Adam Fleming]]: "Do you think there will be riots?", O'Neill responded: "I think there should be." In October 2019, 585 complaints about him calling for riots were dismissed by the BBC's executive complaints unit.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Tobbitt |first1=Charlotte |title=BBC dismisses 600 complaints over Brendan O'Neill's Brexit riots claim on Politics Live |url=https://www.pressgazette.co.uk/bbc-dismisses-600-complaints-brendan-oneill-spiked-brexit-leavers-riot-politics-live/ |website=Press Gazette |date=14 October 2019 |access-date=15 October 2019}}</ref>

===COVID-19===

In 2020, in relation to [[COVID-19]], he has argued that "this pandemic has shown us what life would be like if environmentalists got their way"<ref name="Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists">{{cite web | title=Virus aftermath: Optimism or pessimism about its effect on climate change? | website=Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists | date=17 April 2020 | url=https://thebulletin.org/2020/04/virus-aftermath-optimism-or-pessimism-about-its-effect-on-climate-change/ | access-date=2020-12-28}}</ref><ref name="Hope Derler Hope 2020">{{cite web | last1=Hope | first1=Mat | last2=Derler | first2=Zak | last3=Hope | first3=Mat | title=The Coronavirus Crisis: The Dangerous Crossover Between Climate and COVID Denial – Byline Times | website=Byline Times | date=2020-04-01 | url=https://bylinetimes.com/2020/04/01/the-coronavirus-crisis-the-dangerous-crossover-between-climate-and-covid-denial/ | access-date=2020-12-28}}</ref> and condemned the "chilling" and "dangerous" "witch-hunting of those who criticise the response to [[coronavirus]]".<ref name="Mondon 2020">{{cite web | last=Mondon | first=Aurelien | title=Opinion: Coronavirus killed populism. Now the only choice is between left and right | website=The Independent | date=2020-04-29 | url=https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/coronavirus-populism-trump-left-right-liberalism-politics-a9486326.html | access-date=2020-12-28}}</ref>


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For other people with the same name, see Brendan O'Neill (disambiguation).

Brendan O'Neill
NationalityBritish
OccupationColumnist
Known forEditor of Spiked (2007–2021) and columnist for The Australian and The Big Issue

Brendan O'Neill is a British pundit and author. He was the editor of Spiked from 2007 to September 2021, and is its "chief political writer".[1] He has been a columnist for The Australian, The Big Issue, and The Spectator.

Once a Trotskyist, O'Neill was formerly a member of the Revolutionary Communist Party and wrote for the party's journal Living Marxism. In 2019, O'Neill said he was a Marxist libertarian.[2][3]

Career

He began his career at Spiked's predecessor, Living Marxism, the journal of the Revolutionary Communist Party, which ceased publication after ITN won their libel action following Living Marxism accusing ITN of misrepresenting a picture of a prison camp during the Bosnian war.[4]

Since then, O'Neill has contributed articles to publications in the United Kingdom, the United States and Australia including The Spectator, the New Statesman, BBC News Online, The Christian Science Monitor, The American Conservative, Salon, Rising East and occasionally blogged for The Guardian,[5] before moving to The Daily Telegraph.[6] He writes a column for The Big Issue in London and The Australian in Sydney. He also writes articles for The Sun.[7]

Ansichten

Northern Ireland

O'Neill is a supporter of a united Ireland.[8] He was critical of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement, which Sinn Féin and the Provisional IRA supported. O'Neill wrote, in a 1998 issue of Living Marxism, "The new peace deal is a disgrace... The biggest losers in all this are the republican movement... [W]hat exactly will the republican communities gain at the end of their 25-year struggle? Sinn Fein and the IRA have not just agreed to down arms. They have effectively signed away everything they once stood for, accepting that there will not be a united Ireland."[9][10]

Environmentalism

O'Neill has said that the environmental movement has become a "religious cult"[11] that is "waging war on the working class".[12] He was later criticised for comments about the Swedish environmentalist activist Greta Thunberg.[13][14][15][16] O'Neill has described warnings concerning overpopulation as a "Malthusian" interference in a women's right to reproductive freedom.[17] In 2020, in relation to COVID-19, he has argued that "this pandemic has shown us what life would be like if environmentalists got their way".[18][19]

Brexit

In September 2019, he said on the BBC's Politics Live that British people should be rioting about delays to Brexit.[20] He said: "I'm amazed that there haven't been riots yet." When asked by guest presenter Adam Fleming: "Do you think there will be riots?", O'Neill responded: "I think there should be." In October 2019, 585 complaints about him calling for riots were dismissed by the BBC's executive complaints unit.[21]

Bibliography

  • A Duty to Offend : Selected Essays. Brisbane, Queensland: Connor Court Publishing. 2015. ISBN 9781925138764.
  • Anti-Woke: Selected Essays. Brisbane, Queensland: Connor Court Publishing. 2018. ISBN 9781925826265.
  • A Heretic's Manifesto: Essays on the Unsayable. London Publishing Partnership. 2023. ISBN 9781913019860.

Sources

  1. ^ O'Neill, Brendan. "It's time for a change at spiked 27 September 2021". spiked. Retrieved 28 September 2021.
  2. ^ "The Rubin Report 'What is a Marxist Libertarian?". YouTube. Archived from the original on 17 December 2021. Retrieved 14 August 2019.
  3. ^ Marsh, Natasha (15 September 2016). "Brendan O'Neill, atheist blogger and the Church's biggest defender". The Catholic Weekly. The Catholic Weekly (Australian).
  4. ^ Well, Matt (31 March 2000). LM closes after losing libel action. The Guardian.
  5. ^ "Brendan O'Neill Profile". London: guardian.co.uk. 3 June 2008. Retrieved 2 March 2009.
  6. ^ "Brendan O'Neill". Telegraph Media Group. Archived from the original on 9 January 2011. Retrieved 1 July 2012.
  7. ^ "Articles by Brendan O'Neill | The Spectator Journalist | Muck Rack". muckrack.com.
  8. ^ "Today with Sean O'Rourke, RTE Radio 1 18/12/20 at 1.11.35". Raidió Teilifís Éireann. Retrieved 29 December 2020.
  9. ^ O'Neill, Brendan (May 1998). "A peace of nothing". Living Marxism. Archived from the original on 8 March 2000.
  10. ^ Aaronovitch, David (24 April 2019). "The shadowy past of Farage's motley crew – Comment". The Times. Retrieved 28 December 2020.
  11. ^ Plummer, Kate (20 September 2019). "All the worst right-wing hysteria about the climate strike". Scram News. Retrieved 28 December 2020.
  12. ^ Dazed (17 October 2019). "Don't be fooled into thinking that climate activism is just for poshos". Dazed. Retrieved 28 December 2020.
  13. ^ Charlie Hancock (25 April 2019). "Like Greta Thunberg, I am on the autism spectrum. She gives me hope". The Guardian. Retrieved 23 August 2019.
  14. ^ Moran, Layla (23 April 2019). "Greta Thunberg has changed the course of history – what has Brendan O'Neill achieved?". The Independent. Retrieved 23 August 2019.
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