Sixty years after sociologist WEB Du Bois’ death, Brendan O’Neill reflects in Spiked on Du Bois’ writing about the emancipation of slaves. Du Bois identified the “veil of color” as the greatest problem, one he believed could be surmounted – but which O’Neill argues activists today are seeking to make permanent by focusing on the cult of group identity and dissolving individual agency.

Yay Brexit!
Brendan O’Neill in Spiked enthuses that Brexit is superior to just about anything else in the world. “There should be street parties” on the 10th anniversary of the popular vote to withdraw from the EU, he writes. “Let the bells peal for that momentous day when in our millions we said No to globalism.” The continuing surfeit of saboteurs and naysayers among Britain’s “idiot elites”, O’Neill snorts, are gripped by Brexit Derangement Syndrome.


