Articles

  • 3 days ago | spiked-online.com | Brendan O'Neill

    Pope Francis is dead. The 266th Bishop of Rome passed this morning at 7.35am. He was the first Latin American and the first Jesuit to occupy the papacy. It is a testament to his tenacity in the face of illness that he managed to bid Happy Easter to thousands of worshippers in St Peter’s Square yesterday, just hours before he ‘returned to the House of the Father’, as the Vatican described it. Yet for all of Francis’s strength of will, his 12-year-long pontificate was ultimately a tragic one.

  • 4 days ago | spectator.com.au | Brendan O'Neill

    They defaced the statue of Millicent Fawcett. That’s all you need to know about yesterday’s march for ‘trans rights’. Someone clambered up the Parliament Square monument to one of Britain’s best-known feminist icons and daubed it with offensive words. ‘Fag rights’, they scrawled upon Fawcett’s likeness. A warrior for women’s suffrage vandalised with a homophobic slur – and these people think they’re on the right side of history?

  • 6 days ago | revistaoeste.com | Brendan O'Neill

    Quanto tempo vai levar até pendurarem uma placa de papelão no pescoço de Kemi Badenoch, à moda Revolução Cultural, para que o mundo saiba que ela ainda não viu Adolescência? Estamos chegando a esse ponto. Primeiro, Nick Ferrari, da LBC, acusou-a de “descumprimento do dever” por não ter assistido ao drama da Netflix. Em seguida, o apresentador James O’Brien disse que é “impensável” que ela tenha “desviado dessa série”. E agora a BBC a está interrogando.

  • 1 week ago | spiked-online.com | Brendan O'Neill |Frank Furedi

    I’ve found my soundtrack for spring: the caterwauling of fellas in dresses following text. It’s delicious. They’re raging about the ‘fascism’ of no longer being allowed to get their knobs out in the women’s changing room. They’re agonising over where they’re supposed to take a shit now. Their Adam’s apples are getting a mighty fine workout as they wail into the void about being ‘erased’ by ‘transphobes’.

  • 1 week ago | spectator.com.au | Brendan O'Neill

    How did it come to this? How did we arrive at a situation where it fell to a court of law to tell us what a woman is? That’s my overriding emotion today. I’m delighted the Supreme Court has ruled that a woman is legally defined as a person with female biological characteristics.