# Ed West
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ed west is a British 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, and has also written for the Evening Standard, The Guardian, The i, The Week, and Spiked.He is the son of British journalist Richard West and Irish journalist Mary Kenny and the brother of the journalist Patrick West.
Monkey Business | Interview: Jonathan Leaf
For years, Jonah Goldberg’s enemies, acquaintances, and wife have accused him of being little more than a slightly advanced proboscis monkey. Today’s guest, author Jonathan Leaf, is here to prove them definitively wrong. Jonah and Jonathan explore how similar humans and apes actually are, while a...
#29 Being a low status conservative on the wrong side of history with Ed West
Professor Bryan Caplan coined the Ideological Turing Test which measures whether a person truly understands an opposing political or ideological viewpoint. To help us pass the test when it comes to conservatism as a school of political thought, Ed West takes us from St Augustine to today whilst m...
The loss of Ann Widdecombe
In this bonus episode, Ed West and I discussed the apparent murder of Ann Widdecombe, the role that she played in British public life, and the responses to this atrocity.
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What would it take to stop the boats?
In this bonus episode for paid subscribers, I spoke with Ed West about the nativist protests in Dover and Portsmouth, and how the British government might respond. Will there be moves to ban face coverings and crack down on protest movements? Or will the government give way to the Right, and put ...
Americano: what have Britons got against America?
British favourability dropped sharply sometime around 2016 and then further declined in 2024. Trump is clearly the main driver of negative feelings, although not the only one. There was much antipathy in 2020, which may have been related to the election but seems more likely due to the chaotic sc...
Americano: why is the US obsessed with British 'decline'?
Why are Americans so interested in Britain's decline? While visiting London, Tucker Carlson has said that the country has ‘shrunken’ and its culture ‘destroyed’, particularly because of mass immigration. Freddy Gray is joined by Tim Stanley and Ed West to discuss whether Britain has become ‘groun...
Americano: is Elon Musk a great man of history?
Freddy Gray sits down with journalist and Spectator author Ed West who writes the Substack Wrong Side of History and Richard Hanania who writes the Richard Hanania Newsletter to discuss Elon Musk's interview with Donald Trump on Twitter (X), how much influence Twitter has both in the UK and Ameri...
Spectator Out Loud: Peter Hitchens, Lionel Shriver, Mary Wellesley and more
On this week's episode, Peter Hitchens remembers a Christmas in Bucharest, Lionel Shriver says people don't care about Ukraine anymore, Ed West wonders if you can ‘meme’ yourself into believing in God, Mary Wellesley reads her ‘Notes On’ St Nicholas, and Melissa Kite says she had to move to Irela...
Reflections on the (upcoming) revolution in France
In this bonus episode for paid subscribers, I spoke with Ed West about the recent unrest in France.
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