Ed West (journalist)

Ed West is an author, journalist and blogger, who is the deputy editor of UnHerd. He was previously 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]

Ed West
OccupationAuthor, journalist
NationalityBritish
SubjectReligion, social commentary
Notable worksThe Diversity Illusion
Website
edwestonline.com

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

His first book, published in 2006, was How To Pull Women, which he later described on his Daily Telegraph blog as embarrassing.[7] That was followed, in 2008, by How to Get Hot Women Into Bed.

West's book, The Diversity Illusion, which examines the supposed adverse effects of mass immigration on British society, was published in February 2013. 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."[8] The Observer described the book as a "brazen and breezily written polemic" whose "arguments are repeatedly undermined by reality."[9]

West's 2020 book, Small Men on the Wrong Side of History, focuses on the failures of post-war conservativism.[10]

Books
  • How to Pull Women: The Science of Seduction (Summersdale, 2006) ISBN 184024545X
  • How to Get Hot Women Into Bed: Ultimate Seduction Techniques for Real Guys (Ulysses Press, 2008) ISBN 1569756686
  • The Diversity Illusion (Gibson Square Books Ltd, 2013) ISBN 1908096055
  • The Silence of Our Friends (2014)
  • The Realm: The True history behind Game of Thrones
  • 1215 and All That: Magna Carta and King John (Skyhorse Publishing, 2017) ISBN 9781510719873
  • Saxons vs. Vikings: Alfred the Great and England in the Dark Ages (Skyhorse Publishing, 2017) ISBN 9781510719859
  • 1066 and Before All That: The Battle of Hastings, Anglo-Saxon and Norman England (Skyhorse Publishing, 2017) ISBN 9781510719866
  • England in the Age of Chivalry . . . And Awful Diseases: The Hundred Years’ War and Black Death (Skyhorse Publishing, 2018) ISBN 9781510719880
  • My Kingdom for a Horse: The War of the Roses (A Very, Very Short History of England) (Skyhorse Publishing, 2018) ISBN 9781510719897
  • The Path of the Martyrs: Charles Martel, The Battle of Tours and the Birth of Europe (Independently published, 2019) ISBN 9781795052146
  • Iron, Fire, and Ice: The Real History that Inspired Game of Thrones (Skyhorse Publishing, 2019) ISBN 9781510735644
  • Small Men on the Wrong Side of History (Little, Brown and Company, 2020) ISBN 9781472130808
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References
  1. "Ed West: Farewell, then, Nuts magazine". The Spectator. 2014-04-02. Retrieved 2020-06-11.
  2. Ed West (2018-11-30). "Ed West | London Evening Standard". Standard.co.uk. Retrieved 2019-09-09.
  3. "Ed West". The Guardian. 2016-01-22. Retrieved 2019-09-09.
  4. "Ed West, Author at". Inews.co.uk. Retrieved 2019-09-09.
  5. "Ed West". Theweek.com. Retrieved 2019-09-09.
  6. "Ed West, Author at spiked". www.spiked-online.com.
  7. "Ed West: Telegraph Blogs". Archived from the original on 2009-06-27. Retrieved 2020-06-11.
  8. Oborne, Peter (15 April 2013). "The British Dream by David Goodhart and The Diversity Illusion by Ed West: review". Telegraph. Retrieved 2013-05-05.
  9. Ian Birrell (28 April 2013). "The British Dream by David Goodhart; The Diversity Illusion by Ed West – review". Guardian. Retrieved 2013-05-05.
  10. "Small Men on the Wrong Side of History". February 5, 2019 – via www.littlebrown.co.uk.


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