spiked is turning 25. Back in 2000, it was a journalistic trailblazer – the UK’s first online-only current-affairs magazine. Today, it is bigger and better than ever, reaching people around the world with its irreverent, principled polemicism. Here, spiked editors Mick Hume, Brendan O’Neill and Tom Slater tell the story so far, from spiked’s birth from the ashes of a notorious libel trial to the online phenomenon it is today, always standing up for free speech, democracy and humanity.
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