Mick Hume

Profile: Full name: Mick Hume Area of interest: Politics, current affairs, media Journals/Organisation: Spiked | The Times Email: Mick.Hume@spiked-online.com Personal website: Website: http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/author/Mick%20Hume Blog: Representation: Networks:

Biography: About: British journalist and former organiser of the defunct Revolutionary Communist Party. He was raised in Woking and educated at Manchester University where he read American Studies. Once editor of Living Marxism, he has contributed to The Times (London) and is editor-at-large of Spiked, the online magazine Education: Manchester University: American Studies Career: Launched Living Marxism magazine, 1988/2000*; joined The Times, 2003; currently edits Spiked, the online progeny of LMM Current position/role: Editor-at-large of Spiked, the online magazine; occasional contributor to The Times also writes/written for: Other roles/Main role: Other activities: Disclosures: Viewpoints/Insight: Bookmarks - Mick Hume on Leon Trotsky's Their Morals and Ours New Statesman, 2nd December , 2002; Life after Living Marxism, The Guardian, 8th July 2000 Broadcast media: Video: Controversy/Criticism: Living Marxism closed in 2000 after losing a libel suit brought by ITN over claims (see the case of ITN versus Living Marxism) the magazine had made about ITN's reporting of the Trnopolje camp in Bosnia Awards/Honours: Scoops: Other:

Books & Debate: Latest work: Speaking/Appearances: Debate:

Spiked: Column name: Remit/Info: Section: Role: Pen-name: Email: mick.Hume@spiked-online.com Website: http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/author/Mick%20Hume Commissioning editor: Day published: Regularity: Column format: Average length:

Articles: Official anti-racism: the new nationalism? - Once the establishment preached the doctrine of race and nation - now the elites have redefined racism as ‘a secular sin’ - 5th January 2012

The Times: Column name: Remit/Info: Politics, Current Affairs, Media Section: Role: Pen-name: Email: Website: Commissioning editor: Day published: Regularity: Column format: Average length:

Articles: Football was a bastion of our freedom to let rip - If fans cannot protest, the fight for free speech is lost - 11th February 2010 Miners strike: It was like a civil war - Britain was changed for ever by the miners' strike of 25 years ago. Our writer goes back to Pontefract to examine its legacy - 5th March 2009 Panto shows that adults have forgotten how to behave - Boooo! Hisss! The panto season shows that the boundaries between grown-up and child behaviour have blurred too far - 20th January 2009 The only frills in snooker's heyday were on the players' shirts - Reviving the fortunes of this game will be a long shot - 13th January 2009 Gaza is more than a morality play - Zionist dream of reclaiming biblical lands is over. But Israel will lash out when threatened - 29th December 2008 This anti-flying circus is absurd - The Stansted demonstration ignores the great benefits of cheap flights - 9th December 2008 Free speech means freedom for fools, too - we ought to uphold the right of the British National Party to express its views, however vile - 25th November 2008 The problem is the wrong houses, not the wrong tenants - New Labour is guilty of trying to solve the housing crisis by sharing out the misery - 11th November 2008 Formula One as our new national sport? Please, no - Watching the “world championship” is like an afternoon by the M25 - 4th November 2008 Unaccounted for? That's the whole point - The mountain runners could look after themselves - 28th October 2008 Labour's race prophecy may be self-fulfilling - Labour should overcome its fear of its own white working-class voters - 21st October 2008 Free speech only matters when you want to say something offensive - England fans have the right to boo, sing and swear - 14th October 2008 The 42-day war is over. Now the fight for liberty - If the Bill fails, there will be much rejoicing, but it's only the start - 7th October 2008 The anti-smoking campaign to nationalise our bodies - Being shown horrible images at school didn't stop me smoking - 1st October 2008 And I thought missed putts was why we lost - The Ryder Cup was just a golf match. It doesn't tell us anything about Europe or the US - 24th September 2008 Try to define Britishness and not sound banal - The search for national identity is fruitless - 17th September 2008 To dump the apostrophe would be apostasy - No longer trying get words right would be the biggest spelling mistake of all - 9th September 2008 Some rape cases should not end up in court - Helen Mirren is correct that the law cannot always regulate personal relations - 2nd September 2008 A festival of grovelling to terrorists - If works of art are withdrawn because of fear of reprisal, we lose the chance for open debate - 12th August 2008 Why I refused to let my child be weighed - The Government's fat-headed policy on obesity should be boycotted - 6th August 2008 Bring back Alan Sillitoe and a refreshing view of humanity - Today's cultural elite depict ordinary people as degraded, disgusting chavs and slags - 29th July 2008 From the garotte to the flick knife: a brief history of juvenile crime - A quick trawl through The Times archive shows that the modern concern about out-of-control youth is far from a new one - 21st July 2008 Cristiano Ronaldo: he has the right to leave - It's hard to feel sorry for multimillionaires, but the freedom to sell your trade must be defended - 15th July 2008 UFOs: more madness and apocalyptic fears - The space cadets (or scaremongers) are out in force - 8th July 2008 Can't pay for your palace? Then get out - The question of monarchy goes to the heart of the sort of society in which we want to live - 1st July 2008 No, I won't have children telling me what to eat - Our offspring are becoming the footsoldiers of the re-education crusade - 24th June 2008 archive

News & updates: Mick Hume moves on – new editor for spiked - 29th January 2007

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Links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mick_Hume http://www.powerbase.info/index.php/Mick_Hume New Statesman - Mick Hume archive