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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The left’s insane hissy fit over Starmer’s migration plan

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

So now it’s ‘fascism’ to expect people who come to the UK to speak English? Share Topics Politics UK Want to read spiked ad-free? Become a spiked supporter. Guess what’s ‘fascism’ now? Expecting people who live in the UK to speak English. Yes, if you think migrants should learn the lingo of the place where they hope to set up home, apparently you’re a far-right nutter.
Stewart Lee: regime comedian

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

He postures against Trump’s ‘fascism’ but refuses to speak out against Britain’s woke authoritarianism. Share Topics Free Speech UK USA Want to read spiked ad-free? Become a spiked supporter. Stand-up comedian Stewart Lee’s onstage persona is that of an arsehole who signs cheques that his wit and intellect can just about cash.
A new low for the Pulitzer Prize

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

How gross to give the commentary prize to a man who denigrated the Israeli hostages. Share Topics Culture USA Want to read spiked ad-free? Become a spiked supporter. Back in normal times, many moons ago, it was frowned upon to denigrate women who’d been kidnapped by violent men.
The British elites have capitulated to Islamo-censorship

5 days ago | spiked-online.com | Tom Slater

Our backdoor blasphemy laws were decades in the making, inked in blood and cowardice. Share Topics Free Speech Politics UK Want to read spiked ad-free? Become a spiked supporter. Does freedom of speech include the right to blaspheme? In 21st-century Britain, you’d have thought the answer would be ‘yes, obviously’. Our last blasphemy conviction was in 1977.
A papacy against populism? That is a terrible idea

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

My advice to Pope Leo XIV: ignore the woke noise and listen to working-class Catholics. Share Topics Politics USA World Want to read spiked ad-free? Become a spiked supporter. So is Pope Leo XIV woke or right-wing? Is he a Marxist in holy robes come to slay Trumpism or a traditionalist and a ‘transphobe’ who’s about to break every Catholic lefty’s heart?
The End of Woke - see Andrew Doyle live in London

5 days ago | spiked-online.com | Tom Slater

Share Topics Event Want to read spiked ad-free? Become a spiked supporter. We’re delighted to announce our next live event. The great Andrew Doyle will be joining me to discuss his new book, The End of Woke. It’s on Wednesday 28 May in Westminster – 2 Lord North Street, SW1P 3LB, to be precise. Doors will open at 6.30pm, when you’ll be able to grab a complimentary drink, and the discussion will start at 7pm, with plenty of time left for audience questions.
Israel’s fight for civilisation

6 days ago | spiked-online.com | Cory Franklin

Douglas Murray’s On Democracies and Death Cults is a vital account of 7 October and its aftermath. Share Topics Books Culture Identity Politics World Want to read spiked ad-free? Become a spiked supporter. Douglas Murray’s new book, On Democracies and Death Cults: Israel and the Future of the West is a must-read on the Israel-Hamas war.
Bosh! Why we all love Thomas Skinner

6 days ago | spiked-online.com | Simon Evans

Share Topics UK Want to read spiked ad-free? Become a spiked supporter. Thomas Skinner is, as he wouldn’t say, ‘having a moment’. It’s not hard to see why the former market trader and pillow salesman, who made his name on BBC One’s The Apprentice in 2019, has become so popular, gaining a huge online and pop-cultural following. In a world suffocating under layers of meta-this and ironic-that, Skinner cuts through.
Greta Thunberg’s moral siege of Israel

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

This is an armada of Israelophobic activists, not an aid mission. Share Topics World Want to read spiked ad-free? Become a spiked supporter. Why isn’t Greta Thunberg sailing an aid ship to Sudan? Things are dire there. Two years of war have given rise to ‘catastrophic hunger levels’. The horrors dwarf ‘those in Ukraine, Gaza and Somalia combined’, reports Deutsche Welle.
Lucy Powell’s rape-gangs comment was a mask-off moment for Labour

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

From Keir Starmer downwards, the Labour Party cannot hide its contempt for the victims of grooming gangs. Share Topics Politics UK Want to read spiked ad-free? Become a spiked supporter. It must surely rank as one of the least sincere apologies of all time.