Loony Lefty Hack

Brendan O’Neill has been called worse things by various members of his country, where he is the editor of the U.K. online magazine spiked,* described by the former president of the ACLU as “one of those rare publications that defends free speech even when it is difficult and unfashionable to do so”.

He risks being unfashionable yet again with Tuesday’s article reviewing the push by atheists in England to arrest the Pope during his visit this fall.  As an atheist himself, O’Neill identifies this eruption as revealing the internal decay of the secular outlook.

* “spiked is endorsed by free-thinkers such as John Stuart Mill and Karl Marx, and hated by the narrow-minded such as Torquemada and Stalin. Or it would be, if they were lucky enough to be around to read it.”