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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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The tragedy of Pope Francis

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.
The TERFs were right all along

6 days ago | spiked-online.com | Graham Linehan

Over a hundred years ago, women across England, Scotland and Wales chained themselves to railings, knowing they would be spat on by passers-by, and waited to be cut free and thrown in a cell. The Suffragettes were up against a real, honest-to-God patriarchy, an entire society that valued them only for their ability to satisfy the requirements of men. For choosing to resist, they were ridiculed and beaten, mocked in the press, abandoned by friends, shunned and silenced.
The hilarious meltdown of men who think they’re women

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’.
What happened to all those female penises, Keir?

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

The Supreme Court ruling might just have broken the spell of trans mania. Share Topics Politics UK Want to read spiked ad-free? Become a spiked supporter. Women have penises. Men can grow cervixes. Babies aren’t born with a biological sex. Show me a batshit take on transgenderism and I’ll show you a high-profile Labour Party figure who has gladly spouted it.
Schools are waging war on parents’ free speech

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

Complaining about your kid’s school can now get you banned from the premises or even arrested. Share Topics Politics UK Want to read spiked ad-free? Become a spiked supporter. That schools should ‘teach ABC not gender identity’ is not an unreasonable expectation. Yet it seems insisting on this was enough to get one mother banned from her daughter’s primary school.
How do the lawyers defending Hamas sleep at night?

1 week ago | spiked-online.com | Luke Gittos |Frank Furedi

I didn’t know what to expect when I decided to read the now-infamous application to ‘de-proscribe’ Hamas. This is the application lodged by a British law firm last week to remove Hamas from the UK government’s list of banned organisations under the Terrorism Act. The lawyers have asked home secretary Yvette Cooper to make it legal to openly support Hamas in the UK, given that the act makes expressing support for any proscribed organisation a criminal offence.
The spoiled brats of Youth Demand

1 week ago | spiked-online.com | Gareth Roberts |Frank Furedi

Blocking roads for trendy causes has become a rite of passage for middle-class irritants. Share Topics UK Want to read spiked ad-free? Become a spiked supporter. ‘YOUNG PEOPLE ARE RESISTING’, the website of Youth Demand informs us, breathlessly, announcing the arrival of yet another environmentalist road-blocking protest group – except this one protests about Palestine, too.
Women exist. Get over it!

1 week ago | spiked-online.com | Jo Bartosch |Frank Furedi

Share Topics Feminism Identity Politics Politics UK Want to read spiked ad-free? Become a spiked supporter. The UK Supreme Court has just confirmed what anyone with a grasp on reality has always known: that women are adult human females. In a unanimous and refreshingly rational judgement, the justices in For Women Scotland Ltd vs The Scottish Ministers make clear that the word ‘sex’ in the Equality Act 2010 means exactly what it says – male and female, as determined by biology.
The Irish elites will do anything to keep Conor McGregor out of power

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

Another week, another blow to democracy in Europe. This time it’s in Ireland. According to the Irish Sunday Times, the government has binned plans for a directly elected mayor of Dublin because it fears the election of a swaggering populist. Well, one swaggering populist in particular: the MMA bruiser turned Trumpist braggard, Conor McGregor. It seems they’ll do anything to keep the contrarian from Crumlin out of power, including suspending democracy itself.
Why the AfD is topping the polls in Germany

1 week ago | spiked-online.com | Sabine Beppler-Spahl |Frank Furedi

Incoming chancellor Friedrich Merz has already betrayed his voters. Share Topics Politics World Want to read spiked ad-free? Become a spiked supporter. It is unheard of in German politics for a government to lose support before it has even entered office.