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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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Don’t cry for Iran’s theocrats

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

We must never forget the victims of this brutal, oppressive regime. Share Topics Politics World Want to read spiked ad-free? Become a spiked supporter. Since Israel and Iran began exchanging rocket fire last week, London’s anti-Israel protesters have added Iranian flags to the keffiyehs, placards and Palestinian flags that make up their habitual adornments.
There's more to the Ballymena riots than racism

1 week ago | spiked-online.com | Ella Whelan

The violent unrest that has gripped Northern Ireland has deep, complex roots. Share Topics Politics UK Want to read spiked ad-free? Become a spiked supporter. The actual fires might have been put out in Ballymena, North Antrim. But the social, political fires are still ablaze. It has been a grim week or so in Northern Ireland.
The losers and lunatics battling it out to lead the Democrats

1 week ago | spiked-online.com | Joel Kotkin

This rogues’ gallery suggests the Dems are determined to lose the next election. Share Topics Politics USA Want to read spiked ad-free? Become a spiked supporter. In today’s Democratic Party, nothing succeeds like failure. According to a recent poll tracker, the preferred candidates to contest the 2028 presidential election are a host of proven losers.
The next grooming-gangs cover-up

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

Share Topics Newsletter Politics UK Want to read spiked ad-free? Become a spiked supporter. This is taken from this evening’s edition of Today on spiked, our daily newsletter. To get more exclusive commentary like this, and a round-up of all our content each day, sign up here. Why not make an instant, one-off donation? We are funded by you. Thank you! Enter your amount £ Political correctness was at the heart of the grooming-gangs scandal.
All aboard the ‘far-right bandwagon’

1 week ago | spiked-online.com | Tom Slater

Labour spent decades denying the grooming gangs, now it dares to pose as on the side of victims. Share Topics Politics UK Want to read spiked ad-free? Become a spiked supporter. So Keir Starmer has finally boarded the ‘far-right bandwagon’.
The ice-cold brilliance of Joan Didion

1 week ago | spiked-online.com | Michael Collins

She wrote with the style and the precision of a literary predator. Share Topics Books Culture Want to read spiked ad-free? Become a spiked supporter. In the 2017 documentary, Joan Didion: The Centre Will Not Hold, Didion, the subject of the film, gives a telling response to a question from director Griffin Dunne, her nephew.
How dare Official Ireland bask in the glory of Bloomsday?

1 week ago | spiked-online.com | Darragh McManus

If Ulysses came out today, it would be cancelled by Ireland’s Israelophobic elites. Share Topics Books Culture UK Want to read spiked ad-free? Become a spiked supporter. Today is Bloomsday. It’s meant to be a day to celebrate the life and work of Irish novelist James Joyce.
Ballymena may be a taste of things to come

2 weeks ago | spiked-online.com | Tom Slater

We can no longer ignore the simmering tensions in our midst. Share Topics Politics UK Want to read spiked ad-free? Become a spiked supporter. Another community in flames. Masonry and Molotov cocktails thrown at police. A leisure centre, believed to be housing migrants, set ablaze by a bigoted mob. Stop me if you think you’ve heard this one before.
Rachel the Deluded

2 weeks ago | spiked-online.com | Phil Mullan

Share Topics Politics UK Want to read spiked ad-free? Become a spiked supporter. Playing on the title of an Australian TV series, some critics of chancellor Rachel Reeves have taken to calling her ‘Rachel from Accounts’. That’s unfair to people who work in accounts departments. Most of them can interpret a balance sheet – a skill that seems to be beyond the capabilities of Britain’s chancellor.
Why is the New Yorker sucking up to Latin American tyrants?

2 weeks ago | spiked-online.com | Eli Vieira

The US media’s pandering to Alexandre de Moraes is a betrayal of Brazilian democracy. Share Topics Politics World Want to read spiked ad-free? Become a spiked supporter.