About Brendan ONeill
Let Them Listen to the Kooks: How The UK Government Took Over British Music, and Destroyed It
The United Nations has decreed that British pop stars are bad role models. Last week the UN’s anti-drugs chief attacked “coke-snorting fashionistas” like Amy Winehouse, whose nasal habits are apparently causing “untold misery, corruption, violence and instability” in Third World … Read More
Heath Ledger: Macho Man
The tragic death of Heath Ledger — just determined to be an overdose — has robbed Hollywood of one of its Australian stand-ins for American machismo. Never mind the trade deficit, or even Barack Obama's "moral deficit"; Hollywood is suffering … Read More
Make Me a Muslim!
We have some mad makeover shows in Britain. In You Are What You Eat, "Dr" Gillian McKeith moves in with a morbidly obese couple, pokes around in their poo (literally), and tells them that if they don't stop scoffing chips … Read More
The Left Must Defend David Irving’s Right to Free Speech
As I write, Nick Griffin, leader of the far-right British National Party, and David Irving, Holocaust denier-in-chief, are preparing to speak to 500-odd smartly-dressed students and a pack of hacks at the Oxford Union Debating Society. The OU's decision to … Read More