Brendan O'Neill

Articles by Brendan O'Neill

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Pantomime liberals

  • 19 February 2009
  • 1 comment

Waiting for the Etonians: Reports from the Sickbed of Liberal England
Nick Cohen
Fourth Estate, 383pp, £12.99

In a class of his own

  • 30 October 2008
  • 4 comments

Alan Sillitoe rose from abject poverty to become one of our best novelists. At the age of 80, he is still writing and free from miserable fatalism.

Boris's scary arches

  • 29 May 2008
  • 5 comments

Observations on knife crime

What's driving the BNP?

  • 01 May 2008
  • 71 comments

The rapid growth in support at the ballot box for a nationalist party of the right has gone hand in hand with voter cynicism and disillusion with the main parties

Loving Obama

  • 17 April 2008
  • 1 comment

Observations on British primaries

The myth of trafficking

  • 27 March 2008
  • 48 comments

Most migrant women, including those in the sex industry, have made a clear decision, says a new study, to leave home and take their chances abroad. They are not "passive victims" in need of "saving" or sending back by western campaigners.
Sex at the Margins: Migration, Labour Markets and the Rescue Industry
Laura María Agustín Zed Books, 224pp, £16.99

When ignorance is bliss

  • 24 January 2008
  • 7 comments

The epidemic of misery in the English-speaking west has been caused not by rampant consumerism, but by our addiction to therapy culture

Mail misery, but whose?

  • 18 October 2007

Observations on postal strike

BNP's green disguise

  • 23 August 2007
  • 20 comments

Observations on immigration

How migrants really live

  • 04 June 2007
  • 6 comments

Margaret Hodge thinks newcomers to Britain take housing which should go to the indigenous population. But there is no privilege in the life of newly arrived immigrants.

Tiananmen Square

20 years on

Desperately seeking democracy

Nina Power

Newspeak's legacy

Bamboozle, baffle and blindside

Television

Simon Schama

Simplistic Simon says: “Look at me, everyone!”

Theatre

Liberal guilt

Watch out for the bleeding-heart liberal

Vernon Bogdanor

Worse than Profumo

End of the party

Nicky Wire

The way I see it

Nicky Wire: The way I see it

Vote!

Will China rule the world?

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