Brendan O'Neill

Recent articles by Brendan O'Neill

Brendan O'Neill: Sceptics, have courage...

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"The demonisation of scepticism has returned with a vengeance in the 21st century"

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Tesco has saved us from the drudgery of local shopping

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Tescophobics look upon the supermarket as the Death Star of the high street, sucking the life out of small, family-run shops

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Brendan O'Neill: There’s nothing grown-up about the judgement of Paris

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"Alongside the cult of youth there is a deep and irrational fear of the young"

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Brendan O'Neill: In defence of Justin Bieber

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"Bieber's 'breakdown' is a figment of our fevered imagination"

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Blair a poodle? He was Britain's Bulldog

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A decade after military action began in Iraq, Brendan O'Neill reassesses Tony Blair and George W Bush's special relationship

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Anti-pensioner hostility exposes society’s future fears

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"It’s hard to remember a time when older people were as feared and loathed as they are now"

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Brendan O'Neill: Paedophiles, panic and a misled public

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Brendan O'Neill says that the Savile storm has unleashed Paedogeddon, creating a climate of fear that is the real harm to children

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Don't let your liberty go up in smoke

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"Dope campaigners explicitly argue that cannabis could act as a sedative for the rougher sections of society"

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Dappy: "Tulisa? She's the boss. Kate Middleton? She's fit!"

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Dappy talks Tulisa, his love of eighties pop, and why metaphors are where it's at

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The Rubberbandits: "The Queen has got balls"

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The hip-hop comedy duo on Jedward, representing Limerick and why they are not an "Irish Pussy Riot"

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Brendan O'Neill: Égalité without Liberté? Non!

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"Today's inequality-bashers merely want everyone to "bunch together" in a "safe and happy" middling existence"

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Brendan O’Neill: Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s the taxman!

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"Tax-dodgers have become scapegoats for a politically clueless political class"

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Brendan O'Neill: And the gold medal goes to…

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In the spirit of celebrating human achievement, here’s a medal ceremony for the Olympics miserabilists...

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Brendan O'Neill: Britain needs more billygoats, not sheep

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'2012 is a year of Alan Sillitoe celebrations - and society today needs the attitude of his most famous literary creation'

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Commons people don’t speak for common people

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"In the local elections the vast majority of voters chose to say nothing at all"

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Striking Differences - "It's not surprising public sector workers are angry..."

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Both sides of the political divide are getting overexcited about this strike: radical leftists predict it will signal the rebirth of old-style Labour politics, while fearful right-wingers fret that it

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Question Time

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One of the great mysteries of modern Britain, which will surely cause future historians to scratch their heads in confusion, is how Keith Vaz came to be our chief moral crusader.

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