Mick Hume

Mick Hume is a writer and a journalist. He is currently editor-at-large of the online magazine Spiked, and a writer for The Times (London). Hume was the founding editor of LM magazine, which he originally launched in 1988 as Living Marxism, until it was forced to close in 2000 after being sued for libel. In 2001 he launched Spiked, the first UK-based web-only current affairs magazine, which he edited until 2007. Hume has been writing about issues to do with the media, freedom of expression and a free press for many years. His previous publications include Whose War Is It Anyway? The Dangers of the Journalism of Attachment (1997), and Televictims: Emotional Correctness in the media AD (After Diana) (1998).