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Ed West

Ed West is the features editor of the Catholic Herald and a blogger for the Daily Telegraph. He writes about politics, religion and culture.

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• Papal visit will be a great Commonwealth event, says Lord Patten

  Thursday, September 2nd, 2010

  Visit organiser points out that Benedict XVI was more popular in Australia than the Olympics

• Abbot and Sister take on ‘bear pit’ of atheists in debate over papal visit

  Thursday, September 2nd, 2010

  London audience backed the motion ‘The papal visit should not be a state visit’

• David Cameron’s favourite philosopher addresses Rimini conference

  Friday, August 27th, 2010

  ‘Red Tory’ Phillip Blond speaks at Catholic conference in Italy

• Travellers set up camp close to Newman beatification site

  Friday, August 27th, 2010

  The travellers, from Ireland, say they hope to be blessed by the Pope but do not have tickets for the Mass

• Europe’s leaders are too weak to stand up for western values and rights

  Thursday, August 26th, 2010

  The psychological trauma of the two world wars is driving Europe to cultural suicide, according to a new book

• The day that Peter Hitchens glimpsed hell

  Thursday, August 5th, 2010

  Hitchens’s brother was an atheist, until he came face to face with a horrifying work of art

• Roger Scruton is right to be suspicious of utopian thinking

  Thursday, July 29th, 2010

  Utopian ideas are doomed to fail because they hail from ‘unscrupulous optimism’

• Bishop to defend celibacy in debate two days before Pope’s visit

  Thursday, July 22nd, 2010

  Bishop Malcolm McMahon will be joined by media spokesman Jack Valero and Fr Stephen Wang, dean of studies at Allen Hall

• ‘Bloody’ Mary is the most unfairly treated woman in British history

  Friday, July 16th, 2010

  Visitors from the 1550s would be baffled by the way Henry VIII’s eldest child is portrayed today