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Brendan O’neill

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Crackdown / Epsom betrays the truth about Britain’s politicised police

Explain this to me. Why is it that a gathering of mostly white working-class men protesting about a rape is met by a line of menacing riot cops, and...

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The lies about Israel’s attack on Hezbollah

The lies about Israel’s attack on Hezbollah

Imagine there was a virulently Francophobic militia on the doorstep of the French Republic. Imagine it had fired nearly a hundred thousand missiles...

11.04.2026 10

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The shameful lies about Israel’s attack on Hezbollah

The shameful lies about Israel’s attack on Hezbollah

Imagine there was a virulently Francophobic militia on the doorstep of the French Republic. Imagine it had fired nearly a hundred thousand missiles...

10.04.2026 10

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Why the keffiyeh classes have forgiven Kanye West

And there you have it. Britain is a country where a musician who says ‘Heil Hitler’ gets to headline festivals while a musician who plays with a...

02.04.2026 10

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There’s nothing merciful about Noelia Castillo’s death

This week, in Spain, a rape victim was killed by the state. A young woman in pain and despair was offered not love or justice but death. The...

27.03.2026 10

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Golders Green attack / The intifada has arrived in London

At first I thought it was a scene from one of the battlefronts in the Middle East. The hellish glow of an out-of-control fire. A thunderous explosion....

23.03.2026 20

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Nick Timothy isn’t the bad guy in the row over mass Muslim prayer

Would you rather live in a society where a man is free to criticise religious practices or one where such a man might be dragged to the public square...

20.03.2026 20

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The truth about ‘progressives’ like Bob Vylan

Maybe it’s because I’m getting on in years, but I remember when being “progressive” meant supporting women’s rights, believing in gay...

16.03.2026 10

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War on Iran was not ‘unprovoked’

I’ve been thinking a lot about the phrase “unprovoked war.” It’s been rolling off leftist tongues since the explosion of hostilities in Iran....

13.03.2026 10

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War on Iran was not ‘unprovoked’

I’ve been thinking a lot about the phrase ‘unprovoked war’. It’s been rolling off leftist tongues since the explosion of hostilities in Iran....

13.03.2026 10

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Can you ‘identify’ as English?

There is not one drop of English blood in my body. I know this because, like many others, I succumbed to the DNA testing fad. I spat into a test tube...

10.03.2026 10

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Britain has never needed an ‘Islamophobia’ definition less

For the first time, I am grateful to Zack Polanski. For, in branding Keir Starmer ‘Islamophobic’ simply for criticising Mothin Ali, he has shown...

04.03.2026 10

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Morrissey is the last rock rebel

Two big pop events took place on Saturday. In Manchester, there was the Brit Awards. One by one the bourgeois brats who swell the ranks of popular...

02.03.2026 10

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The Islamo-left is coming to Parliament

Imagine if Matt Goodwin had given an interview to a media outlet that regularly platforms far-right agitators like Nick Griffin. Imagine if he’d...

28.02.2026 10

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How West Midlands Police became a tool of the anti-Jewish mob

The Home Affairs Committee report on the Maccabi Tel Aviv scandal has finally landed. And it is damning indeed. It confirms what many of us suspected:...

24.02.2026 6

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The hunting of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has gone too far

The first thing the mob kills is its own humanity. Long before they sink their collective claws into the target of their flapping ire, they lay waste...

20.02.2026 150

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What happened to Speakers’ Corner?

We need to talk about Ahmed Mohammed. He’s a Sudanese asylum seeker in the UK, and this week he was spared jail after being convicted of...

19.02.2026 100

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Why was Jim Ratcliffe punished for speaking the truth?

12.02.2026 7

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Sydney protests / Couldn’t the Israelophobes give it a rest for one day?

10.02.2026 10

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The Epstein scandal has morphed into a moral panic

06.02.2026 20

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Why won’t the Green party use the word ‘Jews’?

02.02.2026 10

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The Greens vs Reform by-election will expose Britain’s real dividing line

28.01.2026 10

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Gender ideology has been a disaster for working-class women

23.01.2026 20

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London is finally about to show its support for a free Iran

16.01.2026 20

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Revolution / Iran's uprising and the moral bewilderment of Western youth

12.01.2026 50

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Iran's uprising and the moral bewilderment of Western youth

12.01.2026 80

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The Birmingham Maccabi scandal proves multiculturalism has failed

08.01.2026 30

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Venezuela / The hypocrisy of the Maduro fanclub

06.01.2026 20

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The hypocrisy of the Maduro fanclub

06.01.2026 20

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The keffiyeh crew’s curious silence on Iran

03.01.2026 100

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Keir Starmer will regret gushing over Alaa Abd el-Fattah

28.12.2025 30

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Crime / What the word ‘intifada’ really means

19.12.2025 20

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What the word ‘intifada’ really means

18.12.2025 10

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The Bondi beach shooting was a pogrom

14.12.2025 50

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Primal Scream's Nazi Star of David stunt is unforgivable

14.12.2025 60

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Music / Primal Scream's Nazi Star of David stunt is unforgivable

13.12.2025 50

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Why were these Afghan rapists even in Britain?

09.12.2025 10

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Racism / The scandal of the Maccabi ban must not be allowed to fade

03.12.2025 10

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Park politics / Ireland wants you to forget Chaim Herzog

01.12.2025 30

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Park politics / Ireland wants you to forget Chaim Herzog

30.11.2025 30

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Ireland wants you to forget Chaim Herzog

30.11.2025 40

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The Jewish blood libel is back. It’s return should trouble us all

14.11.2025 20

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