Spiked

Established in 2001, spiked is the UK’s pioneering online-only current affairs magazine, serving as a powerful advocate for optimism and human achievement. This publication champions the values of intellectual exploration, artistic excellence, and the importance of free speech, standing firmly against those who aim to stifle creativity, limit our aspirations, and control our conversations. spiked promotes reason, personal freedom, progress, economic development, and the value of diverse ideas about what lies ahead. It steers clear of negative environmentalism, cookie-cutter politicians, nostalgia, simplification of complex issues, and fatalism.

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Of course it’s sexist to refuse to shake a woman’s hand

2 days ago | spiked-online.com | Kunwar Khuldune Shahid

It’s not ‘Islamophobic’ to call out Khabib Nurmagomedov’s snub of a female presenter. Share Topics Feminism Identity Politics Sport UK Want to read spiked ad-free? Become a spiked supporter. It was an awkward moment.
Poland is resisting the EU’s war on populism

3 days ago | spiked-online.com | Mary Dejevsky

The presidential elections have dealt a blow to the Polish and European elites. Share Topics Politics World Want to read spiked ad-free? Become a spiked supporter. Kudos to Poland. It held an election and the ‘wrong’ candidate managed to win, without, as yet, any accusations of outside interference or calls for a new ballot.
Where have all the Jews gone?

6 days ago | spiked-online.com | Joel Kotkin

Share Topics Identity Politics Long-reads Politics UK USA Want to read spiked ad-free? Become a spiked supporter. The killing of two young Israeli embassy staffers, allegedly by a college-educated, left-wing activist earlier this month, provided yet more evidence – if any were needed – of the perilous situation in which Western Jews now find themselves. Almost a century after the early rise of the Nazis, it seems anti-Semitism is on a roll again.
Is it now a crime to make fun of Hezbollah terrorists?

1 week ago | spiked-online.com | Potkin Azarmehr

Causing offence to Islamist extremists can now land you in a police cell. Share Topics Free Speech Politics UK World Want to read spiked ad-free? Become a spiked supporter. The recent arrest of a Jewish man for holding a placard mocking Hezbollah’s now deceased leader, Hassan Nasrallah, has triggered outrage.
Could ‘burrito loans’ trigger the next financial crash?

1 week ago | spiked-online.com | Andrew Orlowski

‘Buy now, pay later’ lending is a crisis waiting to happen. Share Topics Politics Science & Tech UK USA Want to read spiked ad-free? Become a spiked supporter. Could stoners craving their midnight munchies – say, a pizza or a burrito – be behind the next global financial meltdown?
Parents, not the EU, should decide what kids can do online

1 week ago | spiked-online.com | Joanna Williams

Calls for a Europe-wide ban on children’s social-media use are an attack on parental rights. Share Topics Politics UK Want to read spiked ad-free? Become a spiked supporter. Today’s teenagers are a virtuous lot. Compared with past generations, they are less likely to smoke, drink alcohol or have sex. Their sole vice seems to be spending time on social media.
The post-woke world

1 week ago | spiked-online.com | Andrew Doyle

This detested ideology could only ever be sustained by terror. Share Topics Books Culture Identity Politics UK USA Want to read spiked ad-free? Become a spiked supporter. It was an extraordinary scene. Donald Trump, recently re-elected as president of the United States, found himself surrounded by women and girls in the East Room of the White House.
Comedy audiences are rejecting the gender nonsense

1 week ago | spiked-online.com | Graham Linehan

Richard Herring is the latest comedian to find out that audiences will no longer indulge biology denial. Share Topics Culture Identity Politics UK Want to read spiked ad-free? Become a spiked supporter. In poker, suckers are known as ‘fish’. They don’t know the odds, don’t understand the dynamics of the game and push in their chips on bluffs that make no sense.
Israel’s latest crime? Feeding the people of Gaza

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

The hysterical response to Israel’s aid initiative in Gaza has exposed the lunacy of Israelophobia. Share Topics Politics World Want to read spiked ad-free? Become a spiked supporter. Israel is behaving criminally again. It has once more turned its nose up at ‘humanitarian principles’. It is trampling even harder than usual all over international law.
After Liverpool: they still want to silence the public

1 week ago | spiked-online.com | Fraser Myers

Officialdom wants to manage what we know, say and think about this tragedy. Share Topics UK Want to read spiked ad-free? Become a spiked supporter. It was supposed to be a day of celebration. Tens of thousands of fans of Liverpool FC flooded into the city centre yesterday to celebrate their team winning the Premier League. Then, around 6pm, horror struck.