Mick Hume



Profile:
Full name: Mick Hume

Area of interest: Politics, current affairs, media

Journals: The Times

Email: Mick.Hume@spiked-online.com

Website/blog: TimesOnline

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Biography:
Education: Manchester University: American Studies

Career: Launched Living Marxism magazine, 1988/2000*; joined The Times, 2003; currently edits Spiked, the online progeny of LMM

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

Controversy: *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

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The Times: 'Notebook' and 'Thunderer'
Column remit: Politics, Current Affairs, Media

Section: Comment

Role: Columnist

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Email: Mick.Hume@spiked-online.com

Website: TimesOnline

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Day published: Tuesday and Friday

Regularity: Twice-weekly

Column format:

Average length: 450 / 475 words



Articles:

 * was a bastion of our freedom to let rip'' - If fans cannot protest, the fight for free speech is lost - 11th February 2010
 * 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
 * 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
 * is more than a morality play'' - Zionist dream of reclaiming biblical lands is over. But Israel will lash out when threatened - 29th December 2008
 * anti-flying circus is absurd'' - The Stansted demonstration ignores the great benefits of cheap flights - 9th December 2008
 * 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
 * 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
 * One as our new national sport? Please, no'' - Watching the “world championship” is like an afternoon by the M25 - 4th November 2008
 * for? That's the whole point'' - The mountain runners could look after themselves - 28th October 2008
 * race prophecy may be self-fulfilling'' - Labour should overcome its fear of its own white working-class voters - 21st October 2008
 * speech only matters when you want to say something offensive'' - England fans have the right to boo, sing and swear - 14th October 2008
 * 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
 * anti-smoking campaign to nationalise our bodies'' - Being shown horrible images at school didn't stop me smoking - 1st October 2008
 * 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
 * to define Britishness and not sound banal'' - The search for national identity is fruitless - 17th September 2008
 * dump the apostrophe would be apostasy'' - No longer trying get words right would be the biggest spelling mistake of all - 9th September 2008
 * rape cases should not end up in court'' - Helen Mirren is correct that the law cannot always regulate personal relations - 2nd September 2008
 * 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
 * I refused to let my child be weighed'' - The Government's fat-headed policy on obesity should be boycotted - 6th August 2008
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * more madness and apocalyptic fears'' - The space cadets (or scaremongers) are out in force - 8th July 2008
 * 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
 * I won't have children telling me what to eat'' - Our offspring are becoming the footsoldiers of the re-education crusade - 24th June 2008


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Links:

 * New Statesman - Mick Hume archive