spiked - the independent online phenomenon

Lol I mean the Koch brothers astro turf empire is a major and well known "conspiracy" that they are small but active players in. Also they all seem really unchill and annoying to spend any time with.

Seems as much to do with a lack of imagination, a dislike of anything thats complex. A variant on the "get it done, how hard can it be?" school. Proper tunes

Claire Fox having all sorts of problems with the Weinstein verdict. Why are these vile people given any platform at all?

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v32/n13/jenny-turner/who-are-they

https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/the-antifada/ep-93-how-trotsky-got-spked-JUqkKSPrzMe/#episode

Couple of bits on all this here

meanwhile on the front page of spiked:

‘There’s no direct evidence that the lockdowns are working’
Dr John A Lee on why we need to keep questioning the response to Covid-19.

how helpful !

Very interesting article, good to see it slightly more from the inside than usual, but think she could have done a bit more to mention the other tendrils the LM network has wrapped around the media in the UK. Particularly liked the ending, it's true that they are not an independent cancer in society, but tie into the immensely-arrogant, over-reliant-on-rationality thread which runs through most of the media in the UK, the "let's talk like grown-ups" thing is a good tell, and it is indeed the mark of intellectual growth which has been stunted by lack of empathy (and, again, arrogance.)

If possible they're on TV even more than usual at the moment, Claire Fox certainly is.

jenny turner piece nearly a decade old now!!

sorry that's just a content-free "time flies when everything is fucked" type post

I haven't read the article yet, the podcast came up semi-randomly and ended up listening to it on my run this morning. I then noticed the article linked from the podcast, will most likely read next week

xp oh wow didn't even notice it was a piece from 10 years ago!

Free speech for some, massive pasty foreheads for others, culture war for everyone!

Seems like the epidemic is spreading! pic.twitter.com/DsJfjiBAgW

— Huw Lemmey (@huwlemmey) June 3, 2020

I think it is terrible that poor Brenda is getting shamed for his hilariously massive forehead!

Lol autocorrect brenda

sorry for self-posting but it really is too easy

Hi @spikedonline Brendan O'Neill has a grotesquely distended forehead and also has bad opinions, do not block me as this is a free speech issue

— Neil Stewart (@neilstewart) June 3, 2020

A sad day for free speech on the web pic.twitter.com/qZBLrKRn2h

— Neil Stewart (@neilstewart) June 3, 2020

lol

silenced4truth

I specifically told them NOT to block me, because free speech, and now look what has happened

Now you could say there are quite a lot of people living in his grotesquely distended forehead, rent free.

*muffled screams* pic.twitter.com/6gzVvc3t2F

— Guybrush Tweetgood (@Gordopolitz) June 3, 2020

now that's just taking things too far

*eyes bleeding*

Kenneth Cranham in Hellraiser 2 dot gif (was gonna post it, thought better of it)

https://t.co/AFYhEoLkI4 pic.twitter.com/1Ff1WAmbIA

— John Duncan (@Johntheduncan) June 7, 2020

brendan o’neill but with each post his forehead gets bigger: a thread pic.twitter.com/09wGN47N0U

— jonathan nunn (@demarionunn) June 9, 2020

LOLz even though I kind of hate that this arse is famous enough to have the pish ripped out of him online.

I want to see him getting shamed about his appearance so hard that he is reduced to wearing a ridiculous bowler hat or a mark knopfler head band on the BBC or sky news!

Head band? He'd need a cummerbund.

hated and derided likeness of one of history's greatest monsters being dredged up from the bottom of Bristol harbour

off to museum with you pic.twitter.com/nUev2dt9ND

— Guybrush Tweetgood (@Gordopolitz) June 11, 2020

if i write a thinkpiece demanding people stop forehead-shaming Brendan are Spiked gonna have to run a bit about why forehead-shaming is good?

By Trying to Ban the Forehead-Shaming of Brendan O'Neill, the "Tolerant" Left are Showing their True Colours

- by Brendan O'Neill

subs, please check

pic.twitter.com/GNju7K8C3C

— Nooruddean (@BeardedGenius) June 15, 2020

thought you would be posting this, which is less funny

Boris Johnson has asked Munira Mirza to set up his commission on racial inequality. Here's some of her former work. pic.twitter.com/yOY40Cntjb

— Adam Bienkov (@AdamBienkov) June 15, 2020

How about setting up Gary Glitter to head a commission on child abuse next!

Look. Criticise Furedi, Revolutionary Communist Party/Living Marxism, Institute of Ideas, Spiked Online, Academics For Academic Freedom, Academy of Ideas, Ad-Hoc Hands Off the Middle East Committee, Africa Direct, Audacity, Battle of Ideas, Belfast Salon, Big Potatoes, BioNews >

— Andy Fleming (@slackbastard) June 16, 2020

Extraordinary thread on how many cut-outs they have.

Spiked… idk, I'm always surprised it's still going - still chugging along, still pretending to be quite serious, still publishing 3rd rate cultural crit + ooh-contrary LM challops by men in glasses; no-one ever notices, though, from what I can see - maybe I move in the wrong bit of the internet, but no-one seems to give 1 sol. shit about them. What an odd place.

― you don't exist in the database (woof), Friday, 27 January 2012 13:43 (eight years ago) bookmarkflaglink

flashback to a more innocent age

Suggest calz gets himself down to the Huddersfield Salon and reports back.

"Families for Freedom, Families Need Freedom"

when PIE amalgamated with some anti-vax organisations!

brendan o'neill on his love of dogfighting pic.twitter.com/Hdy7dDqQcF

— gart/barfield (@wurrance) June 17, 2020

Is that actually real though or some fake Twitter shite?

Since when has Brendan O'Neill ever criticized Communists? That doesn't fit the Furedi narrative.

yeah probably fake, but he will write a dog-fighting piece at some point.

am all for Brendan getting naked in a barn and going toe to paw with a couple of half-starved Rotties

lmao he's wearing a fucking hat again pic.twitter.com/mvtftjKeJm

— P.G. Chodehouse (@mynnoj) June 17, 2020

well done to people for giving this snowflake a huuuge slaphead complex through their persistent meme-posting!

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EavBSjaXkAEsfEs?format=jpg&name=large

well done to people for giving this snowflake a huuuge slaphead complex through their persistent meme-posting!

Yes, a beautiful thing has happened.

Sorry, but it blatantly did NOT completely cross the line. pic.twitter.com/t6SUcFUZNY

— That Ed boy below has just repeated my joke (@TreborRhurbarb) June 17, 2020

Mild starvation is good for children says the hate filled far right loser Brendan O’Neill pic.twitter.com/IhLsvbcKVQ

— Simon Gosden. Esq. #fbpe 🕷🇪🇺🇬🇧🏴‍☠️🦠🦠 (@g_gosden) June 17, 2020

Brendan O'Neill is ridiculous enough as it is, so why so these unfunny Twitter cunts feel the need to make up stuff he didn't say?

Oh shit is that a fake?