Mick Hume (born 1959) is a British journalist and author whose writing focuses on issues of free speech and freedom of the press. Hume was a columnist for ''

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'' for ten years from 1999, and was described as "Britain's only libertarian Marxist newspaper columnist". He has more recently written for '' The Sun'', ''

'' and ''

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''. Hume was born in

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, Surrey, and educated at Woking County Grammar School for Boys and the

University of Manchester , mottoeng = Knowledge, Wisdom, Humanity , established = 2004 – University of Manchester Predecessor institutions: 1956 – UMIST (as university college; university 1994) 1904 – Victoria University of Manchester 1880 – Victoria Univ ...

. In his twenties, Hume became editor of ''the next step'', newspaper of the now-defunct Revolutionary Communist Party, of which Hume was a member for a decade until it folded. In 1988 he launched the party's magazine, '' Living Marxism''. After the RCP folded in 1996, Hume helped to relaunch the magazine as ''LM'', which he edited until it was forced to close in 2000 after losing a libel suit brought by ITN, over claims that the magazine had made concerning ITN's reporting of

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in Bosnia. In 2001, Hume was launch editor of the online magazine '' Spiked'', the UK's first web-only comment and current affairs publication. He is now ''Spiked''s editor-at-large. Hume's book, ''There Is No Such Thing As a Free Press – and we need one more than ever'' was published in October 2012 in response to the Leveson Inquiry and the debate about press regulation in the UK.

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of ''The Times'' described it as "a masterclass in the writing of polemic".

References

Books

* ''Trigger Warning: Is the Fear of Being Offensive Killing Free Speech?'' (HarperCollins, 2015),

External links

Mick Hume's column in ''The Times''
{{DEFAULTSORT:Hume, Mick 1959 births Alumni of the University of Manchester British male journalists British republicans British social commentators Living people Revolutionary Communist Party (UK, 1978) members British libertarians People from the Borough of Runnymede Deniers of the Bosnian genocide