Ed West

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My life as a Tory Boy

02 Oct 2021

Why can’t we all live in Disneyland? Theme park architecture is beautiful — city planners should take note

01 Oct 2021

Why wokeism won’t rule the world Tyler Cowen thinks it will be America's next great export — I disagree

21 Sep 2021

Why the French are revolting

17 Sep 2021

Boomers: the luckiest generation that ever lived

10 Sep 2021

Will the Amish take over America? Historically persecuted religious sects are winning the demographic war

09 Sep 2021

Why I’m not renewing my Irish passport Hilary Mantel may want to become European again, but I don't

06 Sep 2021

Life is one big status game

02 Sep 2021

Why Britain loves camping

20 Aug 2021

How high fertility rates drove Afghanistan’s tragedy State stability can depend on how many young men are in a population

17 Aug 2021

Why the Left can’t meme

14 Aug 2021

Proof: The progressive revolution arrived before Trump The proliferation of prejudice words in the media began years earlier

10 Aug 2021

America has become its own worst enemy

03 Aug 2021

It’s the Reformation all over again Today's culture wars pit factions of post-1968 progressives against each other

02 Aug 2021

Nigel Farage is a model ex-politician The former Ukip leader hasn't disgraced himself, unlike many former PMs

26 Jul 2021

What toffs and plebs share

22 Jul 2021

Are we free on Freedom Day?

19 Jul 2021

What would victory have meant for England? Very little Sporting wins rarely — if at all — portend a golden age

13 Jul 2021

The West’s cultural revolution is over

09 Jul 2021

Fifteen reasons why Denmark is the best country in the world England's semi-final opponents come from a truly blessed plot

07 Jul 2021

How a Luftwaffe goalkeeper won over English fans Bert Trautmann showed how one individual could overcome group hostility

29 Jun 2021

England’s war with Germany will never be over

29 Jun 2021

How many male friends do you really have? New research suggests a worrying decline in male friendship

28 Jun 2021

The emptiness of ‘British values’

25 Jun 2021

What’s causing the rise in hospitality wages? Experts will have a clever explanation, but the answer seems obvious

22 Jun 2021

The self-loathing of Britain’s elites

19 Jun 2021

Why didn’t we shut the border with India sooner? Partly, it seems because Boris didn't want to offend Modi

15 Jun 2021

Can the monarchy survive?

10 Jun 2021

The latest nonsense US import: ‘BIPOC’ What exactly is meant by 'indigenous' British people?

08 Jun 2021

Fascism isn’t coming

07 Jun 2021

The historical myths about Britain that actually need correcting It's not the joys of empire — and hasn't been for generations

31 May 2021

Dominic Cummings is writing history

27 May 2021

A crime wave in the poorest areas shames BLM The movement is hurting the people it was meant to help

25 May 2021

Who destroyed Prince Harry?

21 May 2021

Why the Left gave up on Israel

19 May 2021

How the Anglo-Saxons built England

14 May 2021

There will be no anti-woke rebellion Millennials won't save us — but the neuro-diverse might

12 May 2021

Is it the Tories who are doomed?

10 May 2021

Remembering the Unitarian roots of The Guardian This radical religious sect had an outsized impact on British political culture

05 May 2021

Who reads the Daily Mail?

04 May 2021

If I were Mayor of London, here are 10 cities I’d copy From traffic to tourism, our capital has a lot to learn

03 May 2021

Why no one watched the Oscars Suffused with dull politics, poor ratings should comes as no surprise

27 Apr 2021

St George was actually Turkish — take that, racists! Aren't I clever and high status for pointing this out?

23 Apr 2021

How George Floyd became a martyr

22 Apr 2021

How Game of Thrones saved the North

16 Apr 2021

Philip, Prince of Nowhere

10 Apr 2021

How God created the West

02 Apr 2021

It’s all America’s fault

30 Mar 2021

The tyranny of diversity training

26 Mar 2021

Why are journalists so Left-wing? The problem is particularly acute in America

19 Mar 2021

Why we love to hate the French

18 Mar 2021

How the Tories can reclaim the cities What people really want is safer streets and cheaper housing

16 Mar 2021

The lockdown that created Frankenstein

12 Mar 2021

More pubs, less extremism A new paper argues that a decline in boozers emboldened support for UKIP

11 Mar 2021

Why monarchies are more tolerant

09 Mar 2021

The EU are the populists now On vaccines, the bloc's disregard for norms is distinctly Trumpian

08 Mar 2021

Is Netflix behind the Covid baby bust? Good TV may have a bad effect on demography

03 Mar 2021

Are you a ‘basic conservative’?

25 Feb 2021

White narcissism, not white supremacy, is plaguing America Hate crimes against Asian-Americans cannot be explained away by one theory

22 Feb 2021

The fantasy of English freedom

19 Feb 2021

Is this the solution to Britain’s housing crisis? Give residents a vote on beautiful new streets

17 Feb 2021

America’s radical young rich are out of control This generation is lacking the restraints of past elites

16 Feb 2021

Why nationalism matters

04 Feb 2021

The phoney War on Woke

29 Jan 2021

The new reign of the imperious slay queen A reminder of how sycophantic America’s journalists are towards those in power

28 Jan 2021

My dog is ruining my life

27 Jan 2021

Can Twitter exist in a democracy?

11 Jan 2021

Why funny men are the most dangerous What starts as comedy often ends in tragedy

08 Jan 2021

Bring back Tony Blair! Only the former PM seems to appreciate that we are in a wartime emergency

04 Jan 2021

Charting the decline of the American Republic

01 Jan 2021

Brexit: was it worth it?

29 Dec 2020

Christmas cancelled? Some alternative festival ideas… If Covid kills Christmas this year, perhaps we should go back to our pagan roots

14 Dec 2020

Brexit: was it worth it?

10 Dec 2020

Wanted: a female Jordan Peterson Toxic validation feels like a huge problem for women as well as men

09 Dec 2020

Love, not money, will save the Union An emotional case for Britain needs to be made

30 Nov 2020

“Accentism” is real, but impossible to end Humans love status signals, and they can't be legislated away

27 Nov 2020

Why 2021 is going to be a fantastic year for Britain There will be months of indulgence and excess when Covid recedes

24 Nov 2020

Welcome to the new Middle Ages

23 Nov 2020

Later-life marriage means fewer conservatives This demographic trend was one of the key drivers in the 2020 election

16 Nov 2020

Trump Derangement Syndrome is here to stay The President's hold on liberals' runaway fantasies will continue

14 Nov 2020

Who’s really being nostalgic, Sir John? John Major's claim that nostalgia is the route to national decline has no basis

10 Nov 2020

Could the end be nigh for the royal family? Plummeting popularity has caused an existential crisis

30 Oct 2020

The return of Perfidious Albion Why is Britain not standing with France?

27 Oct 2020

The Dutch auction for WFH elites has begun Tax incentives are luring the rich away from their home countries

16 Oct 2020

America’s history is swallowing our own Bizarrely, Brits don't seem to care

13 Oct 2020

Why the young hate the Tories

05 Oct 2020

Prince Harry should try looking the East End in the face All aristocracies must encourage an ideology to justify their position

02 Oct 2020

The liberal case for empire

01 Oct 2020

Old punks never die — they just become conservatives Even singers like John Lydon are turning into fogeys

29 Sep 2020

It’s time for Britain to return to a heptarchy Regional governments would have handled the pandemic better than No10

23 Sep 2020

Anti-racism is a virtue gone mad Princeton University might lose millions of dollars as a result

18 Sep 2020

The English have always been drunkards

16 Sep 2020

Why I’m no longer talking to white liberals about race They live in a different reality from my own

08 Sep 2020

Why won’t Right-wingers wear masks? Covid has blown apart the theory that conservatism is a response to pathogens

04 Aug 2020

Why liberals are more alike than conservatives Historically speaking, ideological uniformity tends to work

29 Jul 2020

Tucker exposes Hannity’s outdated conservatism Capitalism is no longer a force for liberalism and pluralism

24 Jul 2020

What if Leave and Remain switched sides?

23 Jul 2020

Why progressivism is flourishing in the US The competition to appear high status is pushing politics in an extreme direction

21 Jul 2020

Yes, there is such a thing as Englishness England has always existed, and will exist well beyond the lifetime of the union

16 Jul 2020