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Biography for kids amelia earhart Ed West is a journalist who writes for The Telegraph , according to their website 'a journalist and social commentator who specialises in politics, religion and low culture'. He is somewhat connected to the libertarian and anti-environmentalist LM network by virtue of having written for Spiked. His brother Patrick West is an LM network associate. West supports the industry position that tackling alcohol harms should focus on 'problem' drinkers rather than adopting a public health 'whole population' approach:. In March in a blog about a well-publicised Searchlight poll West questioned whether so-called 'extremist' views about immigration and Islamism should be deemed 'far right'.

Ed West (journalist)

British author, journalist and blogger

Ed West

OccupationAuthor, journalist
NationalityBritish
SubjectReligion, social commentary
Notable worksThe Diversity Illusion
Tory Boy

Ed West is a British author, journalist and blogger.

He was previously the deputy editor of UnHerd, deputy editor of The Catholic Herald and a columnist for The Daily Telegraph and The Spectator. He began his career with the lads' mag Nuts Magazine,[1] and has also written for the Evening Standard,[2]The Guardian,[3]The i,[4]The Week,[5] and Spiked.[6]

He is the son of British journalist Richard West and Irish journalist Mary Kenny, and the brother of journalist Patrick West.

While working at men's magazines, West wrote a number of short humour books, including one called How to Pull Women (), which he later described on his blog for The Daily Telegraph as "embarrassing".[7]

West's book, The Diversity Illusion, which examines the adverse effects of mass immigration on British society, was published in April Reviewing the book, Peter Oborne described West as "one of the most interesting of the rising generation of political writers, who delights in destroying liberal pieties".

Ed west telegraph biography for kids In his mid-twenties, West found himself embracing a mindset usually acquired alongside a realisation that all music post is garbage, agreeing with everything said in the Telegraph and all the other bad things people get in middle age. This is his journey to becoming a real-life Tory boy. Forgoing the typically tedious and shouty tone of the Right, West provides that rare gem of a conservative book - one that people of any political alignment can read, if only to laugh at West's gallows humour and dry wit. Crammed with self-deprecating anecdotes and enlightening political insights, Tory Boy discloses a life shaped by politics and the realisation that perhaps this obsession does more harm than good. It is full of the most fascinating facts, all mixed in with Ed's inimitable displays of self-mockery' Tom Holland 'A self-deprecating and often hilarious memoir of a born conservative watching the world go wrong.

Oborne also said: "At its worst, though, West's book can come over as an anti-Islamic rant."[8]The Observer described the book as a "brazen and breezily written polemic" whose "arguments are repeatedly undermined by reality."[9]The Sunday Times included the book in their list of "Political Books of the Year".[10] The book's reissue was chosen as one of The Sunday Times's Political Books of the Year.

West's book Small Men on the Wrong Side of History focuses on the failures of post-war conservatism.[11] Newer editions of the book change the title to Tory Boy.

Books

  • The Little Book of Asbos (Crombie Jardine, )
  • Don't Mention the World Cup (Summersdale, )
  • Male Grooming (Summdersale, )
  • How to Pull Women: The Science of Seduction (Summersdale, ) ISBN&#;X
  • The Diversity Illusion (Gibson Square Books Ltd, ) ISBN&#;
  • The Silence of Our Friends ()
  • The Realm: The True history behind Game of Thrones
  • and All That: Magna Carta and King John (Skyhorse Publishing, ) ISBN&#;
  • Saxons vs.

    Vikings: Alfred the Great and England in the Dark Ages (Skyhorse Publishing, ) ISBN&#;

  • and Before All That: The Battle of Hastings, Anglo-Saxon and Norman England (Skyhorse Publishing, ) ISBN&#;
  • England in the Age of Chivalry .

    Ed west telegraph biography for kids pictures Ed West is a British author, journalist and blogger. While working at men's magazines, West wrote a number of short humour books, including one called How to Pull Women , which he later described on his blog for The Daily Telegraph as "embarrassing". West's book, The Diversity Illusion , which examines the adverse effects of mass immigration on British society, was published in April Reviewing the book, Peter Oborne described West as "one of the most interesting of the rising generation of political writers, who delights in destroying liberal pieties". Oborne also said: "At its worst, though, West's book can come over as an anti-Islamic rant.

    . . And Awful Diseases: The Hundred Years' War and Black Death (Skyhorse Publishing, ) ISBN&#;

  • My Kingdom for a Horse: The War of the Roses (A Very, Very Short History of England) (Skyhorse Publishing, ) ISBN&#;
  • The Path of the Martyrs: Charles Martel, The Battle of Tours and the Birth of Europe (Sharpe Books, ) ISBN&#;
  • Iron, Fire, and Ice: The Real History that Inspired Game of Thrones (Skyhorse Publishing, ) ISBN&#;
  • Tory Boy: Memoirs of the Last Conservative (Little, Brown and Company, ) ISBN&#; Originally published as Small Men on the Wrong Side of History

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