Occupation Author, journalist Role Author Name Ed West | Nationality British | |
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Subject Religion, social commentary Books The Diversity Delusion, Don't Mention the World, How to Get Hot Women I, Coarse Cockney Rhyming, The Little Book of Dating R | ||
Notable works The Diversity Illusion | ||
Ed West is an author, journalist and blogger, who is the deputy editor of the The Catholic Herald. Previously he wrote a column for The Daily Telegraph. In June 2013, he began blogging and writing for The Spectator.
He is the son of British journalist Richard West and Irish journalist Mary Kenny and the brother of the journalist Patrick West.
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." Peter Hitchens in The Mail on Sunday wrote that West's book was "powerful" and that it contained an "excellent analysis" into "official propaganda about economic benefits" of immigration. However, leftist weekly The Observer described the book as a "brazen and breezily written polemic" whose "arguments are repeatedly undermined by reality."