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Brendan Oâ??Neill is editor of spiked, the â??sassy, irreverent UK-based online magazine of news and opinion.â? When heâ??s not writing for and editing spiked, and commissioning journalists who have something to say and the guts to say it, Oâ??Neill writes widely for publications on both sides of the Atlantic. His journalism has been published in the New Statesman, the Spectator, the Guardian, The Sunday Times, the British Journalism Review, the Press Gazette, Abortion Review and the Catholic Herald in Britain, and in Salon, Slate, the Chicago Sun-Times, the Christian Science Monitor, American Prospect, the American Conservative and Reason magazine in the United States. He is also a feature-writer for the BBC in Britain.
Oâ??Neill is a passionate defender of free speech â?? far too passionate for an organisation like English PEN, which has denounced him as a â??free speech provocateurâ? and â??angry little boyâ? who thinks free speech should be awarded to â??anyone who says anything anywhere on any subject for any reason with any effectâ? (this is true â?? Oâ??Neill really does think this).