The Strange World of "Spiked Online"

[Lao-Tse]

While reading about the Heathrow Runaway controversy, I came across this interesting snippet by George Monbiot:

(The) weird cult that arose from the Revolutionary Communist party. This Trotskyist splinter, whose chief theorist is the sociology professor Frank Furedi, has spent the last 30 years moving ever further to the right. The magazine it founded in 1988, Living Marxism (later called LM), celebrated power and demanded total market freedom. It campaigned against bans on tobacco advertising, child pornography and the ownership of handguns. It denied that genocide had taken place in Rwanda, or ethnic cleansing in Bosnia. ....

LM closed in 2000, and was replaced by the web magazine Spiked. Edited by Brendan O'Neill, it concentrates on denying the existence of social and environmental problems, and attacking protest movements with a hatred so intense and disproportionate that it must contain an element of self-disgust.

George Monbiot: This is indeed a class war, and the campaign against the Aga starts here | Comment is free | The Guardian

I knew about these weirdoes already-they had been involved in controversies over everything from the
Balkan Wars to childcare.

Any thoughts on the RCP/Spiked group?

[stannis]

Monbiot, is he the ecofriendly one-world-government Guardianista? Don't pay too much attention to him any more.

[sandar]

fella called nick cohen has a book called whats left, the revolutionary communist party andtheir many moves and machinations are gone into in great detail

[soubresauts]

Another offshoot of the Living Marxism crowd is Sense About Science, "an independent charitable trust", whose funders include Astra Zeneca and Unilever.

[spidermom]

Heathrow Third Runway: Emma Thompson And Alistair McGowan Buy Plot Of Land To Disrupt Runway Plans | UK News | Sky News



More re runway 3 at heathrow.
Not particularly relevant to the above posts!!! EXCEPT the heathrow bit!!!!!

[Colada]

Hey Odie, remember when you wrote this?

The value of the slots goes down quite sharply when the 3rd Heathrow is built.

Like I said at the time, you'll be waiting!
Celebs buy runway extension land

[Lao-Tse]

I reckon part of the reason for their success is their
deliberate "contrarism" . They deliberate say something
unconvential or shocking all the time (No massacres in
the Balkans! Global warming isn't happening!) and the
media love it. The fact that big corporations also agree
with what Spiked are saying is a bonus for them.