Ed West

The green activists might be posh, says Ed West, but even the leaders of the Peasants’ Revolt were “middle-class” by today’s standards
 
History records that in the year 2009, the peasants of England rose up in protest, marching on Blackheath to demand change in the kingdom. They came from up and down the land – from [...]

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Reflections on the Revolution in Europe BY CHRISTOPHER CALDWELL PENGUIN, £14.99 
You might not hear about this book much in the next month, nor even in the next year, but it will affect your life in some way, and that of our country and continent. 
Christopher Caldwell is a mildmannered Financial Times journalist who over the past decade [...]

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Catholic Herald Notebook, August 21
This week sees two important anniversaries relating to that glorious year, 1989: the election of Poland’s first non-Communist prime minister since the Second World War, and Hungary opening its border to Austria, signalling the first physical dismantling of the Iron Curtain. 
It was an awesome autumn, the first great counter-revolution in European [...]

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Ed West travels to Brighton to meet the people at the sharp end of Britain’s homelessness crisis 
‘I know homeless people who’ve taken a beating. Sometimes it’s from other homeless people and sometimes it’s from people just on their way home. It’s scandalous that poverty is seen as something only in developing nations; it’s true, Africa does [...]

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Ed West discusses faith, feminism and Dawkins with the author of this summer’s most talked-about religious novel 
7 August 2009
The Catholic Herald 
For the first time in about seven years the most talked-about religious novel of the summer is not one of the Da Vinci Code’s step-children about conspiracies and lost arks, but a story set in the [...]

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