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Type of site | Politics |
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Created by | Mick Hume |
Editor | Tom Slater |
URL | spiked-online.com |
Commercial | No |
Registration | No |
Launched | 2001 |
Spiked (also written as sp!ked) is a British Internet magazine focusing on politics, culture and society. The magazine was founded in 2001 with the same editor and many of the same contributors as Living Marxism, which had closed in 2000 after losing a case for libel brought by ITN.[1][2]
There is general agreement that Spiked is libertarian, with the majority of specialist academic sources identifying it as right-libertarian, and some non-specialist sources identifying it as left-libertarian.[3][4][5][6][7][8] Activists associated with Spiked, sometimes described as part of "the Spiked network", took part in the Brexit Party as candidates or publicists,[9][10] while disagreeing with Nigel Farage on many domestic issues.
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was invoked but never defined (see the help page).Labour MP David Lammy previously sparked outrage among Britain's right-wing circles when he compared the Tory ERG group to the Nazis at a "People's Vote" rally... Spiked Online, a libertarian website, accused him of "foul Holocaust relativism".
The articles were mostly in right-wing publications, including the British libertarian website Spiked...
some of the sites included in our study [of right-wing alternative media websites]—such as the British Spiked or German Compact—have roots in the radical left‐wing scene, but now oppose the political establishment from a position on the right side of the spectrum
Ms Dingle was part of the Revolutionary Communist Party and wrote for its magazine Living Marxism before its successor LM Magazine went bankrupt in 2000, after it was sued successfully for libel by ITN. Key figures in the network – which some commentators have accused of being right-wing rather than left-wing as it claimed – went on to set up libertarian magazine Spiked and the think tank Institute of Ideas (IoI).