Mick Hume is editor-at-large of the online magazine spiked and a writer for The Times (London). He was editor of LM magazine (which he launched, originally as Living Marxism, in 1988) until it was forced to close in 2000 following a libel suit, and then launched spiked which he edited until January 2007.  Mick is a fifty-something ex-grammar school boy from Woking, who went to Manchester University and was, until recently, a season ticket holder at Old Trafford.