

O’Neill has also been a guest on numerous TV and radio shows in Britain, Ireland and America, including on BBC radio and TV, Sky News, Channel 4 News and The Last Word on More4 The Big Bite on RTE television in Ireland and Talk Radio in Dublin and on the Heartland show on Fox News and International Correspondents on CNN, and radio stations in New York, San Francisco, Colorado, Wisconsin and Washington, DC. He is also a feature-writer for the Christian Science Monitor in America and for the BBC in Britain. His journalism has been published in the New Statesman, the Spectator, the Guardian, The Sunday Times, the British Journalism Review, the Press Gazette and the Catholic Herald in Britain, and in Salon, Slate, the Chicago Sun-Times, the American Prospect, the American Conservative and Reason magazine in the United States. When he’s not writing for and editing spiked, and commissioning journalists who have something to say and the guts to say it, O’Neill writes widely for publications on both sides of the Atlantic. He started his career in journalism at spiked‘s predecessor, Living Marxism, then its successor LM, until it was forced to close in 2000 following a notorious libel action brought by ITN. Prior to that, he wrote regularly for the Guardian.įrom the Battle of Ideas biography: "Brendan O’Neill is the editor of spiked and author of the green satire Can I Recycle My Granny and 39 Other Eco-Dilemmas, published by Hodder & Stoughton in 2008. While claiming to be an atheist, he regularly defends the Catholic Church from attack.įrom Jan 2011, he wrote a regular blog for the Telegraph. He then wrote for its successor Spiked from its foundation in 2000, until in 2007 he took over as editor from founding editor Mick Hume.Īs one would expect, his writing is entirely consistent with the LM network’s extreme libertarian and anti-environmental views. He commenced his career in journalism in 1997 at Living Marxism and then LM when it was retitled after the Revolutionary Communist Party was dissolved, until the magazine was forced to close in 2000 after losing a libel trial. He attended Catholic schools throughout his education, including St James Catholic High School in Colindale, Barnet, based in a Dominican convent.

Like Claire Fox and Fiona Fox, he is a child of Catholic Irish immigrants, in this case from Galway. O’Neill grew up in North London as one of five brothers, the eldest being Michael. In particular, he has written for LM magazine and Rising East, is editor of internet magazine Spiked, co-founded the anti-regulatory Manifesto Club and has spoken at the Battle of Ideas, the Brighton Salon, Leeds Salon and Manchester Salon. This film is rated R by the MPAA for pervasive sexual content, brief graphic nudity, language and some drug use.Brendan O'Neill is associated with the libertarian anti-environmental LM network. The creative filmmaking team includes production designer Howard Cummings, costume designer Christopher Peterson, music supervisor Frankie Pine and choreographer Alison Faulk. She’s definitely someone he’d like to know a lot better, and it looks like he has a chance…until his lifestyle gets in the way.ĭirected by Oscar winner Steven Soderbergh (“Traffic”) and written by Reid Carolin, “Magic Mike” is produced by Nick Wechsler, Gregory Jacobs, Channing Tatum and Reid Carolin. Meanwhile, Mike meets the Kid’s captivating sister, Brooke (Horn). It’s not long before the club’s newest act has fans of his own, as the summer opens up to a world of fun, friendship and good times. Seeing potential in a guy he calls the Kid (Pettyfer), Mike takes the 19-year-old under his wing and schools him in the fine arts of dancing, partying, picking up women and making easy money. The more the ladies love him, the more they spend, and the happier that makes club owner Dallas (McConaughey). The hot headliner in an all-male revue, Magic Mike has been rocking the stage at Club Xquisite for years with his original style and over-the-top dance moves. A man of many talents and loads of charm, he spends his days pursuing the American Dream from as many angles as he can handle: from roofing houses and detailing cars to designing furniture from his Tampa beach condo.
