Is Spiked biased?
The rating organisations do not give Spiked one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are AllSides: Leans right; Ad Fontes Media: Right; Media Bias/Fact Check: Right. We have seen it on 1 published story of ours.
The short answers
Is Spiked biased?
The rating organisations do not give Spiked one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are AllSides: Leans right; Ad Fontes Media: Right; Media Bias/Fact Check: Right. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is Spiked left or right?
The rating organisations do not give Spiked one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are AllSides: Leans right; Ad Fontes Media: Right; Media Bias/Fact Check: Right. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Right.
Is Spiked reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for Spiked are Ad Fontes Media: Low factuality; Media Bias/Fact Check: Mixed factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
Who says so
3 organisations have published a rating for this outlet, in their own words. Where they disagree, the disagreement is the useful part and it is left standing.
How reliably it reports fact
A rating of the newsroom in general, by others, and a different thing from the Trust score we publish on each story, which judges one piece of reporting.
Mixed factuality
Who owns it
- Brendan O'NeillBillionairedirect owner
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom
- Official site
- spiked-online.com
- Seen publishing on
- spiked-online.com
- Access
- Free to read
- Wikipedia
- Entry
What we have seen ourselves
Counted across the stories this site has published, which is the only denominator a reader can check: every one of them has a page, and every page lists the reports it was written from.
- Stories
- 1
- Reports listed
- 1
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 4 August 2026
1 of those reports was paywalled or blocked to us. Our reading of this outlet is built on the 0 we could open, not on everything it published.
We have not seen Spiked cover a story that outlets rated right were largely absent from.
On the one story of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of Spiked: its report arrived a median of 9 hours after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 7 August 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 7 August 2026. Ratings pulled 7 August 2026.
Stories we have seen it on
- SpikedRightMixed factualityOpinionFrancesca Hong: the final boss of woke? (opens Spiked in a new tab)
London, Greater London, England, United KingdomOwner: Brendan O'Neill
Our report: Bernie Sanders declines to endorse Wisconsin governor candidate Francesca Hong
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as Spiked, also publishing from United Kingdom, ordered by how often we have seen them on a story. Sharing a rating is not the same as being alike.
Every rating on this page is a named third party’s published work, republished with its author and, where one exists, a link to it. Our own coverage record is the section we measure ourselves. Neither is a judgement of any individual report: those are scored story by story, and the reasoning is on our methodology page.