The Spike (other)

	The Spike (other) The Spike may refer to: * ''The Spike'' (novel), a 1980 novel by Arnaud de Borchgrave and Robert Moss * ''The Spike'' (Broderick book), a 1997 nonfiction book by Damien Broderick * "The Spike" (essay) by George Orwell * ''The Spike'' (TV series), a controversial 1978 Irish television drama * "The Spike", a 2008 song for The Music The Music was an English alternative rock band, formed in Kippax, Leeds in 1999. Comprising Robert Harvey (vocals, guitar), Adam Nutter (lead guitar), Stuart Coleman (bass) and Phil Jordan (drums), the band came to prominence with the releas ... * The Spire of Dublin {{DEFAULTSORT:Spike, The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	The Spike (novel) ''The Spike'' is a 1980 in literature, 1980 spy thriller novel by Arnaud de Borchgrave and Robert Moss (New York: Crown Publishers, 1980). Drawing on de Borchgrave's experience as a jet-setting ''Newsweek'' journalist and conservative Washington insider, it tells the story of a radical '60s journalist, Bob Hockney, who stumbles upon a Soviet Union, Soviet plot for global supremacy by 1985. When he tries to expose the web of blackmail, sex and espionage, he's hamstrung by his editors' liberal media bias. In the news world, to "Spike (journalism), spike" a story means to cancel its publication. De Borchgrave and Moss envision a scenario in which the KGB exploits the attitudes of the unsuspecting Western media, which was allegedly more interested in unmasking CIA agents than stopping the Soviets, threatening to thwart Hockney's big scoop. The best-selling book was marketed not only as a spy thriller but an exposé of real-life Washington. Time (magazine), ''Time'' called the book a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	The Spike (Broderick Book) Damien Francis Broderick (22 April 1944 – 19 April 2025) was an Australian science fiction and popular science writer and editor of some 74 books. ''The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction'' credits him with the first usage of the term ''virtual reality'' in science fiction, in his 1982 novel ''The Judas Mandala.'' Background Broderick held a Ph.D. in Literary Studies from Deakin University, Australia, with a dissertation (''Frozen Music'') comparing the semiotics of scientific, literary, and science fictional textuality. He was for several years a Senior Fellow in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne. He was the founding science fiction editor of the Australian popular science magazine ''Cosmos'' from mid-2005 to December 2010. Broderick lived in San Antonio, Texas, with his wife, tax attorney Barbara Lamar, before they moved to Portugal in 2022. He died in Castelo Branco on 19 April 2025, at the age of 80. Career Five of Broderick's books ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	The Spike (essay) "The Spike" is a 1931 essay by George Orwell in which he details his experience staying overnight in the casual ward of a workhouse (colloquially known as a "spike") near London London is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in . London metropolitan area, Its wider metropolitan area is the largest in Wester .... This episode in Orwell's life took place while he was intentionally living as a vagrant in and around London as part of the social experiment that would form the basis of his first book '' Down and Out in Paris and London''. The events of this essay are also found in that book, though the essay is not reprinted verbatim in the book. Orwell was in Paris, in August 1929, when he first sent a copy of "The Spike" to the '' New Adelphi'' magazine. The ''New Adelphi'' was a London periodical which was owned by John Middleton Murry. Murry had released editoria ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	The Spike (TV Series) ''The Spike'' is a controversial Republic of Ireland, Irish Dramatic programming, drama television series, broadcast by Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ) in 1978. The ten-part series was set in a secondary school. The script was written by Patrick Gilligan who was a vocational school teacher. Reviews The series was negatively reviewed by critics who took issue with the poor script, bad acting and the clumsy thematic treatment. A review in ''The Irish Times'' stated that " this much publicized drama series has turned out to be so bad it must now be taken seriously". Dr Helena Sheehan, a lecturer in social history, wrote in 2002 that Controversy In episode five, "the briefest glimpse of Nudity, naked flesh" caused outrage and angry phonecalls to newspapers. The show's producer defended the nude streak as an intent "to examine the attitude of pupils and staff to nudity". The ensuing fuss led to one of the actors requiring medical treatment after he was, as the ''Evening Press'' el ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	The Music The Music was an English alternative rock band, formed in Kippax, Leeds in 1999. Comprising Robert Harvey (vocals, guitar), Adam Nutter (lead guitar), Stuart Coleman (bass) and Phil Jordan (drums), the band came to prominence with the release of their self-titled debut album in 2002. The band released two further studio albums, '' Welcome to the North'' (2004) and '' Strength in Numbers'' (2008), before parting ways in 2011. Career The Music all met at Brigshaw High School (except Phil Jordan, who went to Garforth), and began playing in 1999 as Insense. In 2001, the song "Take the Long Road and Walk It" circulated as a demo before being released by Fierce Panda as a 1000-copies-only single, a rarity from its day of release. Around this time NME and Steve Lamacq were describing them as the best unsigned band in Britain. The band was quickly signed by Hut, who released their first EP '' You Might as Well Try to Fuck Me''. In 2002, following another EP (''The People'') the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]