Spiked (magazine)
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Type of site | Politics |
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Created by | Mick Hume |
Editor | Tom Slater |
URL | spiked-online.com |
Commercial | No |
Registration | No |
Launched | 2001 |
Spiked (also written as sp!ked) is a British
There is general agreement that Spiked is
on many domestic issues.Editors and contributors
Spiked is edited by Tom Slater, who was previously its deputy editor. He was appointed in September 2021, and replaced Brendan O'Neill, who had been editor following Mick Hume's departure in January 2007. On ceasing to be editor, O'Neill became Spiked's 'inaugural chief political writer'.[11]
The magazine also produces a number of podcasts, with contributors including Christopher Snowdon.[citation needed]
Origin
Spiked emerged from Living Marxism, the magazine of the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP). Living Marxism was founded in 1988 and rebranded as LM in 1999.[12][1][13][14]
Spiked was founded in 2000 after the
The RCP itself formally dissolved in 1996, but maintained its existence as a loose network, first around LM and then Spiked. The group of writers associated with LM who went on to form the core editorial group at Spiked, are often referred to as the "LM network" or "Spiked network".[19][20]
Content
The Daily Beast, as well as
Spiked opposes many public health interventions. For example, it sees campaigns against obesity as state intrusion and “a war on the poor”.[31] It opposes multiculturalism and (as its contributor Munira Mirza put it) sees institutional racism as “a perception more than a reality”.[31]
Spiked opposed the post-
]Spiked saw the UK's vote to leave the
In 2018 Monbiot wrote that "Spiked's writers rage against exposures of dark money. It calls The Observer's Carole Cadwalladr, who has won a string of prizes for exposing the opaque spending surrounding the Brexit vote, 'the closest thing the mainstream British media has to an out-and-out conspiracy theorist'".[9]
Spiked opposed lockdown as a policy during the COVID-19 pandemic.[31]
In July 2020, an exposé by The Daily Beast reported that Spiked was one of several mainly conservative websites that had inadvertently published articles attributed to non-existent experts on the Middle East. This network of fake journalists promoted the United Arab Emirates and pushed for harsher treatment of that country's opponents. Spiked did not remove the two articles, instead leaving an editorial note mentioning the articles' questionable authorship.[26][3][5]
Following the start of the
Projects
In May 2007 Spiked launched the Spiked Review of Books as a monthly online literary criticism feature. This coincided with controversy in the United States following the scaling back of newspaper book review sections.[47]
Spiked produces annual "free speech rankings" of UK universities.[48][49]
Funding
A joint investigation between
References
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- ^ a b Wells, Matt (31 March 2000). "LM closes after losing libel action". The Guardian. Retrieved 25 April 2019.
- ^ a b c Charbonneau, Madeleine (7 July 2020). "Conservative Sites Pull Articles". The Daily Beast.
- ^ Mason, Paul (7 June 2021). "David Lammy is right". New Statesman.
Labour MP David Lammy previously sparked outrage among Britain's right-wing circles when he compared the Tory ERG group to the Nazis at a "People's Vote" rally... Spiked Online, a libertarian website, accused him of "foul Holocaust relativism".
- ^ a b c Knowles, Tim. "Fake writers promoting UAE". The Times.
The articles were mostly in right-wing publications, including the British libertarian website Spiked...
- S2CID 203110947.
some of the sites included in our study [of right-wing alternative media websites]—such as the British Spiked or German Compact—have roots in the radical left‐wing scene, but now oppose the political establishment from a position on the right side of the spectrum
- ISBN 9781509533596. Retrieved 13 October 2020.
- ^ a b Bowman, James (February 2017). "Faking it and making it". The New Criterion.
- ^ a b c d e Monbiot, George (7 December 2018). "How US billionaires are fuelling the hard-right cause in Britain". The Guardian.
- ^ Hackney Gazette. Retrieved 10 June 2019.
Ms Dingle was part of the Revolutionary Communist Party and wrote for its magazine Living Marxism before its successor LM Magazine went bankrupt in 2000, after it was sued successfully for libel by ITN. Key figures in the network – which some commentators have accused of being right-wing rather than left-wing as it claimed – went on to set up libertarian magazine Spiked and the think tank Institute of Ideas (IoI).
- ^ O'Neill, Brendan. "It's time for a change at Spiked 27 September 2021". spiked. Retrieved 28 September 2021.
- ^ a b Pallister, David; Vidal, John; Maguire, Kevin (8 July 2000). "Life after Living Marxism: Fighting for freedom – to offend, outrage and question everything". The Guardian. Retrieved 25 April 2019.
- ^ "Thomas Deichmann". www.lobbywatch.org. Lobby-Watch. Retrieved 25 April 2019.
- ^ "Licence to rile". the Guardian. 15 May 1999. Retrieved 29 December 2022.
- ^ Hartley-Brewer, Julia (15 March 2000). "High stakes in battle over Serbian guilt". The Guardian. Retrieved 25 April 2019.
- ^ Monbiot, George (13 June 2011). "Left and libertarian right cohabit in the weird world of the genocide belittlers – George Monbiot". The Guardian. Retrieved 25 April 2019.
- ^ Vulliamy, Ed (15 March 2000). "Poison in the well of history". The Guardian. Retrieved 25 April 2019.
- ^ "Spiked". www.lobbywatch.org. Lobby Watch. Retrieved 25 April 2019.
- ^ a b Melchett, Peter (19 April 2007). "Clear intentions". The Guardian (London).
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Subsequently, maintaining an informal network, activists formed the influential internet magazine spiked in 2000 and founded the Institute of Ideas
- ^ a b O'Neill, Brendan (25 April 2007). "Humanising politics—that is my only agenda". Spiked Online. Archived from the original on 28 April 2007. Retrieved 30 September 2020.
- ^ Monbiot, George (9 December 2003). "Invasion of the entryists". The Guardian (London).
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- ^ Monbiot, George (1 November 1998). "Far Left or Far Right?". Prospect. London.
- ^ a b Monbiot, George (7 December 2018). "How US billionaires are fuelling the hard-right cause in Britain". The Guardian. Retrieved 18 March 2019.
- ^ a b Rawnsley, Adam (6 July 2020). "Right-Wing Media Outlets Duped by a Middle East Propaganda Campaign". The Daily Beast. Retrieved 20 September 2020.
- ^ Mason, Paul (15 April 2019). "David Lammy is right". New Statesman. Retrieved 2 September 2020.
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- ^ Smith, Evan (23 June 2020). "How a fringe sect from the 1980s influenced No 10's attitude to racism". The Guardian. Retrieved 15 March 2021.
- ISBN 9781509533596. Retrieved 13 October 2020.
- ^ a b c Beckett, Andy (1 August 2020). "Why Boris Johnson's Tories fell for a tiny sect of libertarian provocateurs | Andy Beckett". the Guardian. Retrieved 30 December 2022.
- ^ Nadine Strossen; Faisal Devji; Jeffrey Rosen; Brendan O'Neill; Michael Baum; et al. "Life, liberty and politics after 9/11". Spiked. Retrieved 15 July 2006.
- ^ Hume, Mick. "The age of PR imperialism". Spiked. Retrieved 15 July 2006.
- ^ Cunliffe, Philip. "Exposing 'Empire in denial'". Spiked. Retrieved 15 July 2006.
- S2CID 253791729.
- ^ "Revealed: Nigel Farage's Brexit Party candidate spread "propaganda" for Balkan warlord, was 'bugged' by MI6". openDemocracy. 21 May 2019. Retrieved 10 June 2019.
- ^ a b Smith, Julia Llewellyn (28 April 2019). "The Brexit Party's Claire Fox on why she's fighting for Farage". The Sunday Times. Retrieved 10 June 2019.
- ^ English, Otto (24 April 2019). "Fox Breaks Cover – from Revolutionary Communist to Farage's Right Hand Woman – Byline Times". Byline Times. Retrieved 3 September 2020.
- ^ English, Otto (13 May 2019). "AstroTurfers of Britain Part Two: Who is Behind Brexit Party Recruitment and its PR Makeover? – Byline Times". Byline Times. Retrieved 10 June 2019.
- ^ Black, Tim (21 September 2022). "Putin is the one escalating the war in Ukraine". Spiked.
- ^ Black, Tim (12 October 2022). "Russia is terrorising Ukraine". Spiked.
- ^ Reynolds, Jacob (12 September 2022). "Ukraine is one step closer to freedom". Spiked.
- ^ Reynolds, Jacob (19 October 2022). "We must not give up on Ukraine". Spiked.
- ^ Reynolds, Jacob (11 November 2022). "The liberation of Kherson should inspire us all". Spiked.
- ^ Bailey, Tom (15 November 2022). "How Poland and Ukraine overcame a dark history". Spiked.
- ^ Black, Tim (16 November 2022). "Do the Western media want World War 3?". Spiked.
- ^ The National Book Critics Circle's Campaign to Save Book Reviews, John Freeman, President, National Book Critics Circle.
- ^ Carl Thompson (17 February 2018). "Free Speech Rankings: misleading, ill-informed and worryingly influential". Times Higher Education (THE). Retrieved 3 September 2020.
- ^ Malik, Nesrine (13 October 2019). "There is a crisis on campuses – but it's about racism, not free speech". The Guardian. Retrieved 3 September 2020.
- ^ "The New McCarthyism is ruining public life". Spiked. 3 December 2018. Archived from the original on 31 March 2019.
- DeSmog UK. Retrieved 24 April 2019.
- ^ Busby, Mattha; Halliday, Josh (8 December 2018). "Zuckerberg must end far right's fundraising on Facebook – Tom Watson". The Guardian. Retrieved 25 April 2019.
- ^ O'Neill, Brendan (3 December 2018). "The New McCarthyism is ruining public life". Spiked.