Brendan O'Neill is a British columnist and the editor of Spiked Online, an internet magazine that focuses on politics, culture and society.  He is a columnist for The Australian ad London's The Big Issue, the latter being a a socially conscious street newspaper printed in four continents and serving as a source of income for the homeless. Brendan has also contributed to The Spectator, BBC News, The Christian Science Monitor, Salon and occasionally blogged for the Guardian and the Daily Telegraph. Earlier, he was a writer for British magazine Living Marxism.  He is the host of the Brendan O'Neill Show, a podcast aired on Spike's website Spiked-Online.com that investigates the left-right divide, failures of globalization and more recently the cancel and woke culture and the coronavirus pandemic.