Brendan O’Neill

Brendan O’Neill

Brendan O'Neill is a journalist based in London. He is currently the editor of Spiked Online.

He began his career at Spiked's predecessor, LM magazine, the journal of the Revolutionary Communist Party, which was forced to close following a libel action brought by ITN. cite news | title=Special Report: ITN Libel Case | work=Guardian Unlimited | url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/itn/0,,181261,00.html] He has contributed articles to publications in the United Kingdom and the United States including the Spectator, the New Statesman, the The Guardian, BBC News Online, the Christian Science Monitor, The American Conservative and Salon.com. [ [http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/brendan_oneill/profile.html Brendan O'Neill Profile] on [http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/about.html commentisfree] Guardian on line ] He also blogs at Comment is free, part of the Guardian Unlimited site.

O'Neill has criticised the notion of tackling global warming by solely reducing carbon emissions, and instead advocates technological progress as a method of overcoming any side-effects of climate change. cite news | title='Apocalypse, my arse' | url=http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/article/2948/] . In January 2006, he co-founded the Manifesto Club, an organisation "with the aim of challenging cultural trends that restrain and stifle people’s aspirations and initiative."cite web | title=Aims and goals | work=Manifesto Club | url= http://www.manifestoclub.com/aims-and-goals] He is currently writing a book about terrorism titled From "Bosnia to Beslan: How the West Spread al-Qaeda."Fact|date=July 2008

O'Neill should not be confused with the Birmingham poet and scriptwriter [http://www.o-neill.org Brendan O'Neill]

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