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The narcissism of the nonbinary cult is extraordinary. They want awards ceremonies, toilets and even language to be “gender neutral” so that they never feel offended. Their self-regard is off the charts. It’s time we all said no, says Brendan O’Neill
“People are sick and tired of being called racist. If you voted for Brexit, you’re racist. If you voted for Boris, you’re racist. If you criticise Meghan, you’re racist. If you want action on grooming gangs, you’re racist. It’s so tiring and insulting”
Brendan O’Neill on Sky
0:49
It’s time to call out the nonsense of nonbinary. Everyone is either male or female. Making the Brit Awards gender-neutral to appease the tiny number of people who fantasise that they are post-sex is ludicrous. Let’s stop being silly, says Brendan O’Neill
Alice Cooper has said what we’re all thinking: The trans movement is a ‘fad’, wokeness is ‘stupid’ and neither belong anywhere near kids. Cooper’s commonsense takes are a breath of fresh air, writes Lauren Smith
“There’s a disturbing double standard on terrorism. Obama and Hillary couldn’t even bring themselves to call the victims in Sri Lanka Christians. When the victims are Christians and the perpetrators are Islamists, too many people look the other way.”
Brendan O’Neill on Sky News
1:50
“The man who egged Jeremy Corbyn was denounced as a fascist and jailed for a month. The man who milkshaked Nigel Farage is treated as a hero. The double standards of our arrogant, authoritarian chattering classes are astonishing”, says Brendan O’Neill
“This week feminists shed more tears over a few rude headlines about Meghan Markle than they did over the sexual abuse of 57 working-class girls by Pakistani gangs in Manchester.”
Brendan O’Neill on the Manchester abuse scandal:
Prince Harry is a hypocrite. He attacks the Mail on Sunday for publishing a letter Meghan wrote to her dad, and yet in ‘Spare’ he publishes Kate’s texts and reveals William’s inner-most thoughts. He’s behaving worse than any tabloid, says Brendan O’Neill
Jess Phillips once said she would knife Jeremy Corbyn ‘in the front’. Ed Davey said Remainers should unite to ‘decapitate’ Boris Johnson. John McDonnell still won’t apologise for repeating a joke about ‘lynching’ a Tory MP. These people are hypocrites:
Sam Smith is a man and there’s nothing wrong about saying so. Good Morning Britain’s Richard Madelely has been accused of ‘misgendering’ Smith, because Madelely referred to Smith as ‘him’ instead of ‘they’. We are losing our minds, writes
It is impossible for a man to become a woman. No matter how many hormones a bloke takes or how much surgery he undergoes, he’ll always be male. Dylan Mulvaney and other men who ridiculously call themselves “girls” need to grow up, says Brendan O’Neill
It is completely untrue that the criticism of Meghan Markle is driven by racism. In truth, she winds people up because she’s a preachy woke snob who used her lavishly funded royal position to promote PC nonsense. That’s irritating, says Brendan O’Neill
Twitter is suspending satirical accounts that make fun of wokeness. All this has done is prove the satirists’ point -- that wokeness is an authoritarian, humourless ideology. Silicon Valley nerds need to lighten up.
Why do the woke left and Remainer elite hate Priti Patel so much? It’s because she’s an immigrant with right-wing views. These people loathe non-whites who deviate from what they consider to be correct thinking. It is outright racism, says Brendan O’Neill
“People aren’t criticising Meghan Markle because she’s black. They’re criticising her because she epitomises woke snobbery. She lectures us from the pulpit of Vogue about saving the planet and then she flies around in a private jet. She’s a hypocrite.”
Brendan O’Neill on Sky
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“The killing of George Floyd happened 4,000 miles away and yet it dominated the news in the UK for two weeks. In contrast, the killing of three men by a terrorist in Reading is already fading from the news headlines. This feels really disturbing.”
Brendan O’Neill on Sky:
0:58
“You cannot seriously compare anti-Semitism and Islamophobia. Anti-Semitism is the oldest hatred and has killed millions of people. Islamophobia is a recently invented term that is mainly designed to shut down critical discussion about Islam.”
Brendan O’Neill on Sky
0:36
Phillip Schofield has been hailed as brave and courageous for coming out. Get a grip. Going to fight ISIS is brave; revealing your sexuality on the This Morning couch is not. The identitarian lobby really needs to get over itself, says Brendan O’Neill
Whiteness is now viewed as a moral defect. This week we’ve seen white people begging black people for forgiveness. We’ve seen bishops telling whites to repent. This isn’t anti-racism; it’s a creepy new religion of white self-loathing, says Brendan O’Neill
Why didn’t more adults stand up to Mizzy? Why did they let him scream in their faces and enter their homes? People are far too timid these days. We need to start disciplining out-of-control kids. Let’s stand up to morons like Mizzy, says Brendan O’Neill
The campaign to have Julia Hartley-Brewer thrown off Question Time shows how nasty and intolerant the Remainer elite has become. They’re behaving like a mob. They want to silence all Brexiteers. These people are a menace to liberty, says Brendan O’Neill
“It wasn’t Mark Field who behaved arrogantly at that dinner. It was the climate activists. These people are so smug and self-righteous that they think they can go anywhere and do anything without facing any consequences whatsoever”, says Brendan O’Neill
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“In London there are statues of people who did terrible things to my ancestors in Ireland. But I’m not offended by them because I’m not a child. And I don’t want to tear them down because I’m not a narcissist who thinks that only my views matter.”
Brendan O’Neill on @talkRADIO:
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“Why does the woke left hate Priti Patel so much? It’s because she’s an Asian woman who refuses to play the race card and who rejects the PC agenda. The left loathes black and Asian people who deviate from the PC script.”
Brendan O’Neill in
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The idea that Meghan has been driven out of the UK by racism is nonsense. In truth she’s arrogantly abandoning her duchess duties because she wants to be the global Queen of Woke. Her aim is to be a globe-trotting Princess of PC, says Brendan O’Neill
Obama bombed seven countries. In 2016 he dropped 72 bombs a day. He tear-gassed and deported tens of thousands of migrants. And yet British lefties never called him a fascist. Their hatred for Trump is hypocritical virtue-signalling, says Brendan O’Neill
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“The reason the woke left hates Priti Patel is because she refuses to play by their rules. She refuses to play the victim card. She refuses to play the race card. She’s an ethnic-minority woman who rejects political correctness. The left loathes that.”
Brendan O’Neill on Sky:
1:02
The vast majority of people have no interest in being woke. They don’t use words like cisgender, non-binary, heteronormative... that’s just the eccentric language of a new elite that wants to show how right-on it is. In 2020 let’s keep rejecting wokeness.
Brendan O’Neill on Sky:
1:19
“MPs like Jess Phillips sum up how rotten the Remainer Parliament had become. Every single ward in Jess Phillips’ constituency voted Brexit and yet she has spent three years trying to stop Brexit. This is just a staggering level of contempt for voters.”
Brendan O’Neill on Sky
1:17
Boris is more than a prime minister. He’s the man millions of people chose to stand up to the fear-mongering and pessimism of the Remainer elites. It was British optimism that put him in Downing St. And we want him back there ASAP, says Brendan O’Neill
To all the people talking about “white privilege” — fuck you guys. Most white people are working hard and trying to get on with life. They don’t need posh leftists telling them they’re privileged. It makes me so angry.
Tomorrow on spiked — talks to Brendan O’Neill...
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“The criticism of Meghan Markle has nothing to do with racism. People dislike her because she’s a snob. She epitomises woke snobbery and that PC instinct to lecture the public on everything from climate change to feminism. That’s what annoys people.”
Brendan O’Neill on BBC Radio
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Canada has now extended its Pride Month to a full-blown Pride Season. The rainbow cult has become a state-mandated religion. Anyone who dissents will be ostracised and vilified, says
“Orwell’s thought police is now a reality. Humberside Police are investigating a man for retweeting an offensive limerick -- they even contacted him to ‘check his thinking’. It is now normal for police to investigate ‘non-crime hate incidents’.”
on #SkyPapers
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No, Jeremy Clarkson isn't ‘dangerous’. The reaction to his Meghan Markle column has been unhinged. You don't have to find him funny to see that he was trying to tell a joke. Our humourless elites are a menace to liberty, says
“Labour MPs and woke leftists are kicking up a storm about the tactics being used by American police right now. But the exact same tactics were used by French police against the gilets jaunes every single weekend for a year and these people said nothing.”
Brendan O’Neill on Sky
0:30
“After every Islamic terror attack we go through the same ritual. Lay a flower, shed a tear, and move on. Anyone who expresses anger about Islamic extremism is swiftly denounced as Islamophobic. This silencing of people’s concerns has got to stop.”
Brendan O’Neill on Sky:
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An Asda worker has lost his job for sharing a Billy Connolly clip that mocked Islam. Apparently blasphemy is now a sackable offence. Something has gone seriously wrong in this country:
We now live under a parliamentary dictatorship. MPs are frustrating the vote for Brexit and blocking a General Election so that we cannot hold them to account. They have made themselves untouchable. They are a disgrace to democracy, says Brendan O’Neill
Boris was voted into office by 14million people. Now he has been ousted from politics by bureaucrats, the blob and the media. It doesn’t matter whether you’re pro- or anti-Boris – you should be horrified by this assault on democracy, says Brendan O’Neill
Oxford students say they feel “hurt” and “wounded” by the statue of Cecil Rhodes. This is pathetic. I have never felt hurt by the statue of Cromwell in London, despite what he did to my Irish ancestors. Everyone needs to grow up, says Brendan O’Neill
The witch-hunting of Alastair Stewart is shameful. There was nothing racist in his Shakespeare tweet. And yet he’s been punished because someone took offence. It’s time we stood up to the easily offended narcissists of the woke lobby, says Brendan O’Neill
“What adults have done to Greta Thunberg is unforgivable. They have instilled terror in this mentally fragile girl. They’ve convinced her the world is doomed. And now they’re using her as the poster girl for their politics of fear. It is shameful.”
Brendan O’Neill on @talkRADIO
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“Labour has completely lost the plot on the trans issue. Lisa Nandy is now arguing that male rapists who identify as women should be put in women’s prisons. That is such a mad and dangerous idea. And yet if you question it, you’ll be called a bigot.”
Brendan O’Neill on Sky:
1:34
The woke left shed more tears over “grooming victim” Shamima Begum than they did over real grooming victims in Rotherham and elsewhere. They actually feel more sympathy for an Islamist extremist than they do for working-class girls, says Brendan O’Neill
Let’s be honest about Extinction Rebellion: it’s an upper-middle-class death cult. It’s an irrational, regressive eco-sect that wants to impose severe austerity on humankind. If you see them this week, give them a piece of your mind, says Brendan O’Neill
Eddie Izzard has been photographed going into a woman’s toilet. It is a perfect and chilling illustration of how menacing the trans ideology has become. Women’s freedom and privacy is under attack, and more of us need to speak out, says Brendan O’Neill
“Boris has dealt with the coronavirus pandemic very well so far. He has been calm and rational. He has refused to listen to apocalyptic voices in the media who want us to shut down the whole of society. These chattering-class doom-mongers must be ignored.”
Brendan O’Neill on Sky
1:48
On Newsnight Emily Maitlis sneered at government officials for describing Boris as a fighter. This is disgraceful. The country is in lockdown and the PM is very ill, and yet the BBC is still doing its biased, woke government-bashing, says Brendan O’Neill
Shamima Begum is a traitor. She willingly sided with the enemies of the UK. She joined a movement that slaughtered British people, enslaved women and crucified “infidels”. If she comes back to Britain, she must be tried for treason, says Brendan O’Neill
The Scottish man who taught his pug to do a Nazi salute has been found guilty of being “grossly offensive”. In a free country it should never be a crime to be offensive, even grossly offensive. We must vigorously oppose the criminalisation of offensive speech, ideas or jokes.
Today’s #ClimateStrike confirms that the green movement has become a religious cult. They preach about the end of the world. They say mankind will be punished by hellfire in the form of global warming. They worship St Greta. This is an irrational movement.
Brendan O’Neill on Sky
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Dawn Butler’s dodgy racism story has completely fallen apart. The police didn’t stop her because she’s black but because they made a simple error with the car’s registration number. Butler is playing the victim and it’s embarrassing, says Brendan O’Neill
“David Lammy has become the most hateful politician in Britain. That’s the great irony: he claims to oppose prejudice and yet he pumps out nasty elitist prejudices about Leave voters and Brexit-backing MPs. He is inflaming division”, says Brendan O’Neill
“White working-class boys are the lowest achievers in education. And yet two private schools have rejected a generous scholarship scheme to help poor white boys. This is wokeness in action, where if you’re white, male and working class, you don’t matter.”
Brendan O’Neill on Sky
1:35
Jo Swinson has dismissed Johnson and Corbyn as ‘white men’. When did it become acceptable to attack people for their skin colour? As long as ‘white’ is used as an insult, liberals and the left will alienate the public, says @rudiabdallah
There have been no hashtags for the girls abused by Pakistani gangs in Manchester. No solidarity from feminists. No lefty outrage. If you’re a working-class girl and your abuser is a Muslim, these people will throw you under the bus, says Brendan O’Neill
The hounding of Lawrence Fox was a terrifying sign of the times. All he did was calmly criticise woke hypocrisy and the politics of identity. And for that, he was branded a disgrace and a fascist. This was PC McCarthyism in action, says Brendan O’Neill
Woke censorship is out of control. People are being sacked for saying a man cannot become a woman. It’s now virtually a speechcrime to say there are only two sexes. The trans movement and others are hounding people for speaking the truth. This has to stop.
Brendan O’Neill on Sky
1:15
“The discussion about the murder of David Amess is truly bizarre. Politicians are talking about the problems of online anonymity, name-calling, rudeness. But Amess wasn’t killed by nasty tweets. People are trying to avoid the real issue — radical Islam.”
Brendan O’Neill on Sky
1:07
Prince Harry flies across the US by private jet. Sadiq Khan took a 3-car convoy to Battersea Park to walk his dog. Stephen Fry spends his time flying between LA and the UK. Can’t the eco-obsessed elite see its own staggering hypocrisy?, asks
The bizarre case of the breastfeeding dad marks a new low for trans activism. Babies are being used as props to indulge men’s fantasies about being women and mothers. We all need to stop playing along, says
The killing of George Floyd took place 4,000 miles away and yet has dominated the news in the UK. In contrast the three victims of the Reading attack will soon be forgotten. Our society refuses to be honest about Islamic extremism, says Brendan O’Neill
“We’ve got to stop demonising people as Islamophobic just because they are angry about Islamic terrorism. After every terror attack, the same thing happens: people are told to shut up, lay a flower and move on. This is wrong. We need honest debate.”
Brendan O’Neill on @talkRADIO
1:22
“The failure to tackle Muslim grooming gangs is a disgrace. In towns across the country, officials refused to crack down on these gangs for fear of stirring up ‘racial tensions’. They let white working-class girls be abused. This should be a huge scandal.”
Brendan O’Neill on Sky
0:43
It’s because of MPs like Dawn Butler that Labour keeps losing elections. She sums up how it’s turned its back on democracy and working people and embraced the ugly, divisive politics of identity. This party will never win, says Brendan O’Neill
The Manchester abuse scandal is horrendous. Working-class girls were abused by Pakistani gangs and officialdom looked the other way because it didn’t want to upset race relations. These girls were sacrificed to political correctness, says Brendan O’Neill
“The media’s priorities are so messed up. They’re obsessing over offensive things cricketers said 10 years ago while ignoring the fact that someone tried to set off a bomb at a women’s hospital, to attack mothers and babies. We’ve lost the plot.”
Brendan O’Neill on GB News:
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It says a lot about Western progressives that they got more excited about the Women’s March this weekend, featuring liberated, comfortably off women, than they did about the Iranian revolt in which women risked life and limb for the basic right to wear and believe what they want.
ITV threw Piers Morgan and Jeremy Clarkson to the wolves for expressing an opinion on Meghan Markle, yet it defended Phillip Schofield even after concerns were raised about his allegedly unethical behaviour. ITV is a moral wasteland, says Brendan O’Neill
The crisis in British politics is down to one thing: the people want to leave the EU but the establishment doesn’t. We have a Remainer parliament and a Brexit-supporting public. And parliament is openly defying our democratic wishes — that’s the crisis.
Brendan O’Neill on Sky
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“People aren’t upset about Brexit because they regret voting Leave. They’re angry that they haven’t got the real Brexit they voted for. People want freedom and they want to take back control.”
on the myth of ‘Brexit regret’
“These days everyone is expected to repeat the mantra ‘Trans women are women’. But some of us don’t believe that. We don’t believe trans women are women. And we must have the right to say that without being forcefully shut down.”
Brendan O’Neill on Sky
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“Generations of people fought for the right to blaspheme against religion. We’re now backtracking on that and offering one religion in particular — Islam — special protection from criticism. This is so wrong. People must be free to doubt and mock Islam.”
Brendan O’Neill on Sky
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Elliot Page’s autobiography is deeply disturbing. Page hears voices. She cuts and punches herself. She loathes her female body so much she has it surgically “corrected”. Why are people celebrating this violent purging of womanhood?, asks Brendan O’Neill
“Identity politics has been a disaster for the UK. In recent years most people had stopped thinking about race. People were getting on better than ever. Then the regressive left came along and made everything about race again. It’s so destructive.”
Brendan O’Neill on BBC Radio:
1:15
We were told that Sarah Comrie was a racist “Karen”. That she was trying to steal a rental bike from a young black man. It wasn’t true. The bike was hers. The witch-hunting of this woman, this pregnant nurse, has been horrendous, says Brendan O’Neill
So many people are horrified by the Supreme Court ruling. It confirms that anti-Brexit millionaires like Gina Miller and a handful of judges now have a greater political say than ordinary voters. The Remainer establishment is trashing democracy.
Brendan O’Neill on Sky News:
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The idea that Priti Patel is a bully is ridiculous. Robust leadership is not bullying. It is really pathetic for seasoned civil servants to say they have been bullied. In truth they just oppose Patel’s agenda and want to thwart it, says Brendan O’Neill
“We have to grasp the seriousness of what is happening in the UK right now. If Brexit is cancelled, then millions of votes will be instantly voided. People will get the message that their vote is meaningless. This will devastate democracy in this country.”
Brendan O’Neill on Sky
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The response to ’s appearance on Question Time has been deranged. He’s been branded “far right”. People want him blacklisted from films. All because he raised criticisms of PC thinking. This is Woke McCarthyism in action, says Brendan O’Neill
You censored an image of a woman in a bikini on the basis that it would offend Londoners. Stop pretending you know anything about freedom of speech.
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Trans women are not women. They’re men who think they are women. We have to be honest about this. Yes, some people will find it offensive, but that’s life. Freedom of speech and the truth are more important than people’s feelings, says Brendan O’Neill
“I've had my arm broken by Antifa in Montreal. I've been assaulted probably 40 or 50 times now. People have spat at me. These people want to use violence to silence”
on the intolerance of the trans movement
“When a man threw an egg at Jeremy Corbyn, he was branded a fascist and jailed for a month. When a man threw a milkshake at Nigel Farage, he was celebrated in media circles and given just 150 hours community service. The double standards are staggering.”
Brendan O’Neill on Sky
1:51
People are cheering Twitter’s censorship of Katie Hopkins. They’re calling it a victory of decency over hatred. In truth it’s a victory of corporate censorship over free speech. Even if you hate Hopkins, you shouldn’t want her banned, says Brendan O’Neill
We now live under a parliamentary dictatorship. MPs are thwarting the vote for Brexit and blocking a General Election so that we cannot even hold them to account. They’ve made themselves untouchable. They are a disgrace to democracy, says Brendan O’Neill
“The word Islamophobia is being used to shut down public debate. Anyone who criticises Islam or the Koran risks being branded an Islamophobe. It’s now even difficult to have a frank discussion about Islamist terrorism. This censorship has to stop.”
Brendan O’Neill on BBC Radio:
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Brits are turning against gender ideology. Not because they've been brainwashed by 'toxic' media coverage, as trans activists claim. They're just waking up to the threat it poses to women’s rights and children’s safety, says Jo Bartosch
A huge cheer for No Deal from the Question Time audience. The public knows that No Deal is now the only way to deliver the clean Brexit that 17.4million people voted for. And yet it is the option that our politicians are most keen to rule out.
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“Simone Barreto Silva was a young mother-of-three who was murdered by a radical Islamist in a church in Nice. No one took the knee for her. No one blacked out their Instagram page. There were no hashtags. Our silence on Islamist terrorism is shameful.”
Brendan O’Neill on Sky:
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That breastfeeding bloke is the last straw. The idea that men can be mothers, that men can suckle infants, is an abominable lie. It is the modern equivalent of 2 + 2 = 5. It’s time to stand up to this culture war on nature and reason, says Brendan O’Neill
It isn’t surprising that Lord Adonis, who is unelected and who devotes his every waking hour to undermining the largest vote in UK history, doesn’t understand how important democracy is. His contempt for Brexit and for voters is extraordinary.
Brendan O’Neill vs Lord Adonis
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“You cannot seriously compare anti-Semitism and Islamophobia. Anti-Semitism is the oldest hatred and has killed millions of people. Islamophobia is a recently invented term that is mainly designed to chill and censor discussion of Islam.”
Brendan O’Neill on Sky
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“The hypocrisy of the green elites is staggering. Meghan Markle, Elton John, Emma Thompson... they jet around the world and then lecture the rest of us about the importance of being eco-friendly. They are classic woke hypocrites”, says Brendan O’Neill
The left’s hatred for Priti Patel is out of control. They view her as a nasty woman and an Uncle Tom. They loathe her because she’s an ethnic-minority woman with right-wing views. Their Patel-bashing is fuelled by envy and prejudice, says Brendan O’Neill
“Generations of people fought very hard for the right to blaspheme against religion, for the right to mock gods and prophets and beliefs. We’re now backtracking on that and offering one religion — Islam — special protection from criticism. This is bad.”
Brendan O’Neill on Sky
1:30
“It isn’t Priti Patel who behaved badly at the Home Office — it’s Sir Philip Rutnam. This unelected functionary tried to undermine the elected government. He embodies a civil service that has become arrogant and elitist. Patel was right to challenge him.”
Brendan O’Neill on Sky:
1:40
“The main problem with the BBC is that it no longer speaks for the nation. It only speaks for the woke, PC chattering classes. That’s why it became the Brexit Bashing Corporation over the past three years. It is longer a true national broadcaster.”
Brendan O’Neill on Sky:
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