Brendan O’Neill – Bosnia to Beslan

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Brendan O’Neill is the deputy editor of spiked, the online magazine with the modest ambition of making history as well as reporting it. He started his career in journalism at spiked ‘s predecessor, LM magazine, until that was forced to close following a libel action brought by ITN.

Brendan’s writing has been published widely on both sides of the Atlantic, including in The Spectator, The New Statesman, The Guardian, the Christian Science Monitor and Salon. He is also a regular contributor to the Guardian’s Comment is Free Blog.

Brendan was a consultant for the book Human, published by Dorling Kindersley and winner of the BMA Medical Book Award 2005, and is currently writing a book about terrorism titled From Bosnia to Beslan: How the West Spread al-Qaeda.