Patrick West

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Patrick West is a freelance writer based in the UK and Ireland, the son of British journalist Richard West and Irish journalist Mary Kenny. Born in London in 1974, he graduated from Manchester University in 1997 with an MA in Cultural History. He has written for The Times, the New Statesman, The Spectator, the Times Literary Supplement, The Irish Times, The Daily Telegraph, the Sunday Independent (Ireland), The Irish Post, Living Marxism and The Catholic Herald. He is author of the books Conspicuous Compassion (Civitas, 2004), The Poverty of Multiculturalism (Civitas, 2005), Beating Them At Their Own Game, How The Irish Conquered English Soccer (Liberties Press, 2006), and editor of The Times Questions Answered (HarperColliins, 2004). He writes weekly about television for Spiked. He doesn't like eggs.Patrick has spent many years in Rwanda studying mountain gorillas but has recently returned to his native Iceland to marry his childhood sweetheart, Oovla.

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