Ed West

Ed West's book Tory Boy is published by Constable

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Happy Bastille Day! Cancelling people since 1789… The French Revolution gave birth to the extremism we see today

14 Jul 2020

How a 1990s book predicted 2020

03 Jul 2020

Should we decolonise Constantinople? The Hagia Sofia is now the 'Ayosofa' — a term used by the Ottoman Empire

30 Jun 2020

Welcome to the Age of Unreality June 2020 marks the end of a shared idea of truth

26 Jun 2020

As a conservative, I mourn the loss of liberalism The Successor Ideology is far, far worse...

23 Jun 2020

For the international class, Brexit is a parochial concern This culture war is mostly irrelevant to their lives

19 Jun 2020

2020 and the coming of neo-feudalism We are slowly returning to a pre-modern caste system

17 Jun 2020

Why the rich are revolting

10 Jun 2020

Don’t kid yourselves, this isn’t 1968 Unlike the soixante-huitards, BLM protesters have establishment support

08 Jun 2020

Some Brexit voters aren’t going to like Whiggish Global Britain The Hong Kong question exposes a big division in the Leave camp

05 Jun 2020

Unfortunately, political sectarianism is only going to get worse We are seeing this on both sides of the Atlantic

02 Jun 2020

Pandemics and climate change spelled the end for Rome The role of these factors has never looked more relevant

01 Jun 2020

Slowly but surely, Britain is turning into America The Cummings saga has put this gruesome transformation on full display

26 May 2020

See you in 2040 — bet you the world is a better place Contrary to what the doom-mongers say, people will be healthier, richer and living in peace

15 May 2020

Who are the corona tribes? Even as Covid turns our world upside down, polarisation is creeping back

12 May 2020

Covid-19 is giving me weird dreams What's more, it seems to be a worldwide phenomenon

17 Apr 2020

Who says a Covid recession would mean more people dead? Historically, economic downturns have led to a fall in deaths, not a rise

14 Apr 2020

Coronavirus coverage is making me feel ill

08 Apr 2020

Boris in the ICU makes this crisis too much to bear If the PM can be reduced to this, it emphasises how fragile our country is

07 Apr 2020

Weirdo conservatives were the first to spot the Covid threat The Right is a particular combination of highly intelligent and quite stupid

06 Apr 2020

Covid is killing the black market — maybe that’s a bad thing There could be violent consequences

02 Apr 2020

Let Brits pick their own fruit! Flying 90,000 migrants to the UK in the middle of a pandemic would be utterly mad

30 Mar 2020

I miss the culture warriors I want to go back to a society where problems are invented

27 Mar 2020

Covid-19 will be a defining moment in our multicultural story This is the first real crisis that our nation has gone through together since the Second World War

24 Mar 2020

Cancelled by coronavirus Calling off my book launch was tough, but this crisis made me appreciate what’s truly important

18 Mar 2020

We are heading towards a socialist future Until the coronavirus is defeated, the state will need to be much more active

16 Mar 2020

Tucker Carlson is America’s Saviour America may have a Bad King, but at least it has a Good Counsellor

12 Mar 2020

Pandemics are the ultimate stress test for nations Some states are better run than others, but it’s only in a real crisis that this fact becomes stark

10 Mar 2020

Woke capital had a field day on International Women’s day Four of the best (or worst) highlights from yesterday

09 Mar 2020

Why conservatism is doomed

09 Mar 2020

How kids’ books became universally woke

06 Mar 2020

Mary Beard is the exception that proves the rule The furore over the classicist's blocked appointment to the British Museum reveals the Left's cultural domination

02 Mar 2020

Will coronavirus change the world?

28 Feb 2020

The danger of free speech zones Toby Young's Free Speech Union has a noble objective, but risks falling into the hands of the wrong people

24 Feb 2020

Criticisms of Priti Patel have sinister undertones The implication of the home secretary's critics is that her loyalty should be to family — and by extension, ethnic group

20 Feb 2020

Schools don’t teach about the British Empire — and that’s a good thing Secondary-level history is too limited to teach complex subject matters

18 Feb 2020

Mr Jones is a lesson in the dangers of groupthink The journalist exposed the horrors of the Stalinist regime — much to the disdain of educated westerners

14 Feb 2020

Here’s to Chaucer Lane and Attlee Avenue! The PM wants to name a train station after Margaret Thatcher — we should commemorate national icons like this more often

13 Feb 2020

Why arranged marriages make sense

11 Feb 2020

Middle-class patriotism goes underground An Evensong service left me with an emotion I realised I hadn’t felt for some time

09 Feb 2020

Take that, Leavers: some British things might be slightly foreign The Brexit-themed Horrible Histories has re-ignited a stupid debate

04 Feb 2020

These days, Peter the Hermit would have a blue tick Medieval-style cults headed by dysfunctional people are rising to power online

31 Jan 2020

Hungary is ahead of the curve on population policy Large parts of the world are facing a demographic crisis

27 Jan 2020

France still sees itself as the Protector of Catholicism The Macron row shows that France takes religion more seriously than Britain

23 Jan 2020

Everything you know about Europe is wrong

22 Jan 2020

Casting ethnic minority actors in period roles is political It wasn't the best example, but Laurence Fox has a point

21 Jan 2020

In praise of hereditary politicians What if meritocracy is a bad idea and we're better off with hereditary politicians?

17 Jan 2020

Elites don’t preach what they practise Marriage has, paradoxically, become a status-signal and a luxury of the wealthy

15 Jan 2020

Did Twitter anti-diplomacy prevent war with Iran? Among his many skills, Trump is the master practitioner of social media

09 Jan 2020

Ricky Gervais is a fool — in all the right ways The comedian's stinging criticism of the Hollywood elite takes a stand against 'anti-comedy'

06 Jan 2020

Conservatives should capture the Green movement It's time to re-discover the long-lost conservative environmentalist tradition

03 Jan 2020

Will China end America’s culture wars? China is one thing that unites American conservatives and liberals

01 Jan 2020

The Two Popes is made in liberal Hollywood’s image The film's two main characters are a simplistic representation of two competing worldviews

23 Dec 2019

Will Boris fight for middle-aged men? Single middle aged men are the group most likely to commit suicide — and most likely to vote Tory

20 Dec 2019

Why we need the BBC more than ever The Beeb's bias wouldn't be suddenly rectified by selling it off

18 Dec 2019

What’s the matter with Bolsover? History shows that when elites don't share the same faith as the ruled, they end up losing

16 Dec 2019

Why Tories are becoming extinct

11 Dec 2019

Stop comparing Boris to Trump The Prime Minister has always had a liberal streak — unlike his American counterpart

09 Dec 2019

The Lib Dems should have got my vote, but they won’t It’s the Alien v Predator v Terminator election – whoever wins, we lose

05 Dec 2019

Communism creeps into America America's illiberal mood bears a worrying resemblance to another era

03 Dec 2019

There’s nothing taboo about the Anglo Saxons The latest controversy over the term 'Anglo-Saxon' ignores their significant history

02 Dec 2019

Why haven’t we banned cars yet? They're designing a new car-free town in Arizona - we should follow their lead

29 Nov 2019

Is Jordan Peterson a gateway to the alt-right? A new study suggests maybe — but it's still better to engage than to demonise

28 Nov 2019

Britain’s divisions go way, way back

27 Nov 2019

Elsa goes all Elizabeth Warren in Frozen 2 Should the snow queen take a 23andMe test?

25 Nov 2019

Young Tories can’t find a place to live 'Partyism' is spreading into every area of life, but there is a cure

22 Nov 2019

Even a royalist like me struggles with the Windsors The royal family are facing a new annus horribilis

18 Nov 2019

Why child labour beats school

15 Nov 2019

Talk of ‘Empire’ is a Remainer fantasy I have never heard a single Leave supporter mention the empire

14 Nov 2019

Woke capital’s new low: murder is now a ‘mistake’ Uber is so keen to do business with Saudi it's ready to forgive anything

11 Nov 2019

The five historical dramas Netflix should make next I find historical inaccuracy deeply annoying — it makes me unbearable to watch TV with

07 Nov 2019

Good news! Employers are struggling to fill low-wage jobs Why do self-styled progressives always ignore the positive side of a tighter labour market?

06 Nov 2019

The Great Realignment: America got there first The richest people in America have been Democrats for some time

05 Nov 2019

What really happened to the New Atheists A political movement doesn’t just disappear. All that kinetic force has to go somewhere, to fight someone, and so the “Blue Tribe”, turned to social justice.

04 Nov 2019

‘Never apologise, never explain’ turns out to be right A new study from Columbia University suggests that public figures who apologise are more likely to seen as needing punishment

28 Oct 2019

Did Oasis cause Manchester’s 21st-century economic boom? One thing I left out of my article on “soft power” the other day was music...

25 Oct 2019

Five demolished buildings we should rebuild How about nominating buildings that were destroyed in the 20th century by cultural vandals of both the German and British variety, and rebuilding them?

24 Oct 2019

Are Americans becoming less Christian? While Britain and France are way ahead on the path of godlessness, the recent drop in Christian religious identification in the US is pretty staggering...

23 Oct 2019

What will singleton society do to politics? More than a third of households now consist of someone living alone...

22 Oct 2019

Harry Potter and the importance of soft power

21 Oct 2019

Important news of the day: the Eleanor Cross is safe Yes, the Eleanor Cross in Northamptonshire is off Historic England’s “endangered list” of buildings...

17 Oct 2019

Where’s the EU outrage at Spain’s brutal sentencing of separatists? Can you imagine policemen from the Home Counties being sent up to Glasgow to crack heads because the SNP had dared to hold a referendum?...

15 Oct 2019

How the Knights Templar explain Portuguese politics Historical regions map onto contemporary politics with remarkable accuracy...

11 Oct 2019

Why #WeHeartGermany Survey after survey shows that British people feel very warmly towards Germans...

09 Oct 2019

When will the Left get over WW2? No sooner had news filtered through that Pizza Express was in trouble when, inevitably, some people suggested nationalising it...

08 Oct 2019

Brexit is going to drive us all mad

02 Oct 2019

Why #MeToo is a Christian movement

01 Oct 2019

Greta may be right, but the spectacle is wrong It makes me uncomfortable to watch a child in distress...

24 Sep 2019

Tucker Carlson: America’s most important pundit

18 Sep 2019

Why’s Verhofstadt bigging up empire?

16 Sep 2019

Four referendums that were never honoured

12 Sep 2019

Extreme? On all issues but one, the Tories have never been softer.

09 Sep 2019

The Tory rebels are the true conservatives

04 Sep 2019

Who is Josh Hawley and what does he believe in?

26 Jul 2019