The comments beneath that article are depressing beyond belief. O'Neill's articles do frequently seem to attract a certain calibre of paranoid racist shithead.

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Tell me about it.

I wonder how a paper that reckons Ken Livingstone's always insulting the holocaust feels about attracting people who think genocide and moving to Romford are the same thing.

Having just seen on Panorama Metalist Kharkiv fans attacking fellow fans for being Asian I know who's to blame. Anti -racists. Or maybe the victims.

I fucking hate Brendan O'Neill.

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O'Neil was a teacher on the journalism degree course I was on a decade ago - I think it was the "Online Reporting" module. He seemed an alright sort, albeit a poor teacher who was a bit dull (hence why I skipped most his lessons), certainly he didn't appear to be a card-carrying gobshite. Which makes me wonder if after a fair few years of being just another nothing hack, he's decided to cash in by giving Telegraph readers what they want to hear.

Kind of a "opinions for money" thing that Stewart Lee mentioned, see also Jeremy Clarkson.

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I think that's correct.

It also encapsulates all that's wrong with journalism, if someone who was once alright can churn out this emetic rubbish.

I'm surprised to hear he was once OK. I thought he'd been a tedious gadfly all along.

He's currently being a right knob at the British Humanist Association debate on marriage equality.

You can follow it at #marriagedebate

Well, I'm going on a few three-hour lessons over 10 years ago - it was more that he didn't come across as the kind of tosser he does these days.

I'm sure I recall him taking a United Ireland stance, though (his parents were from Northern Ireland, if I remember right). I wonder if keeps that quiet to his new Telegraph chums?

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Oh I think your memory is reliable.

I suppose there are some people who shouldn't be writers.

Then the thought of him passing his, umm, "skills" onto aspiring journos must make you shudder.

Maybe the fact I didn't pay attention explains why I don't have a blog for the Telegraph.

Thankfully.

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Twitter tells me the anti-side are employing the slippery slope argument. I'd expect no less from Brendan O'Neill and cohorts.

Because people can't make judgements between extremes.

I mean whenever I go into a shop I either buy nothing or everything.

It's the sort of line of reasoning I remember being used all the time on internet forums while I was a teenager, which is not surprising as O'Neill and co. are essentially well-connected internet trolls. See also: Delingpole, J.

Well the O'Neill surname has strong links to the dynasty that ruled as high kings and led the last uprising to the English monarch in Ireland prior to the Plantation of Ulster, it's a classic Ulster surname and Tyrone is named one of its earliest rulers so BON would almost certainly have some Irish ancestry unless the surname was adopted (like Terence O'Neill, former PM of NI).

I've came across a few people, mainly Irish ex-pats or second descendants, whom while being mainly right-wing have also been very open about supporting a United Ireland up to the point of being supportive of the Provisional IRA during the troubles which is curious given the politics of the organisation.

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The what?