Ed West is a British author, journalist and blogger, who is the deputy editor of ''

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''. He was previously deputy editor of ''

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'' and a columnist for ''

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'' and ''

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''. He began his career with the lads mag '' Nuts Magazine'', and has also written for the ''

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'', ''

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'', '' The i'', ''

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'', and '' Spiked''. He is the son of British journalist Richard West and

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Mary Kenny Mary Kenny (born 4 April 1944) is an Irish journalist, broadcaster and playwright. A founding member of the Irish Women's Liberation Movement, she was one of the country's first and foremost feminists, often contributes columns to the ''Irish In ...

and the brother of the journalist

Patrick West Patrick West (born 1974, London) is a British freelance writer and political commentator. Early life He is the son of British journalist Richard West and Irish journalist Mary Kenny, the brother of the journalist Ed West, and cousin of actors ...

. While working at men's magazines, West wrote a number of short humour books, including one called ''How to Pull Women'' (2006), which he later described on his blog for ''

'' as "embarrassing." West's book, ''The Diversity Illusion'', which examines the adverse effects of mass immigration on British society, was published in April 2013. Reviewing the book,

Peter Oborne Peter Alan Oborne (; born 11 July 1957) is a British journalist and broadcaster. He is the former chief political commentator of ''The Daily Telegraph'', from which he resigned in early 2015. He is author of ''The Rise of Political Lying'', ''Th ...

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." ''

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'' described the book as a "brazen and breezily written polemic" whose "arguments are repeatedly undermined by reality." ''

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'' included the book in their list of "Political Books of the Year". The book's 2015 reissue was chosen as one of ''The Sunday Timess Political Books of the Year. West's 2020 book ''Small Men on the Wrong Side of History'' focuses on the failures of post-war conservativism.

Books

*'' The Little Book of Asbos'' (Crombie Jardine, 2005) *'' Don't Mention the World Cup'' (Summersdale, 2006) *'' Male Grooming'' (Summdersale, 2006) *''How to Pull Women: The Science of Seduction'' (Summersdale, 2006) *''The Diversity Illusion'' (Gibson Square Books Ltd, 2013) *''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) *''Saxons vs. Vikings: Alfred the Great and England in the Dark Ages'' (Skyhorse Publishing, 2017) *''1066 and Before All That: The Battle of Hastings, Anglo-Saxon and Norman England'' (Skyhorse Publishing, 2017) *''England in the Age of Chivalry . . . And Awful Diseases: The Hundred Years' War and Black Death'' (Skyhorse Publishing, 2018) *''My Kingdom for a Horse: The War of the Roses (A Very, Very Short History of England)'' (Skyhorse Publishing, 2018) *''The Path of the Martyrs: Charles Martel, The Battle of Tours and the Birth of Europe'' (Sharpe Books, 2019) *''Iron, Fire, and Ice: The Real History that Inspired Game of Thrones'' (Skyhorse Publishing, 2019) *''Tory Boy: Memoirs of the Last Conservative'' (Little, Brown and Company, 2020) Originally published as ''Small Men on the Wrong Side of History''

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