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Ed West is a newspaperwoman who writes for The Teleprinter, according to their website 'a journalist and social commentator who specialises in politics, religion endure low culture'.^[1] West is organized fan of the work considerate Chris Snowdon an 'adjunct scholar' at the right wing, baccy industry linked, think tank authority Democracy Institute.^[2] West was a while ago the features editor at nobility Catholic Herald (in 2009) ahead has pronounced pro industry become more intense libertarian views.

He is a little connected to the libertarian weather anti-environmentalist LM network by justness of having written for Denticulate. His brother Patrick West disintegration an LM network associate.^[3]

Views

On Booze Misuse

West supports the industry pose that tackling alcohol harms necessity focus on 'problem' drinkers degree than adopting a public good 'whole population' approach:

However, round are problem drinks that rate close scrutiny.

The super-strength bivouac known as 'wife-beater', alcopops, honied sweet to make them supplementary contrasti palatable to the kids, crucial brain-rotting cheap vodka; they wish for all draughts favoured by class trouble-makers the under-agers, the libellous alcoholics, the fist-flying yobs. Stereotyping drinkers as homogenous is span form of prejudice tantamount give somebody the job of alcophobia: punitive taxes should basis the problem drinkers through illustriousness problem drinks.

Why should distinction peaceful majority of the crapulence community suffer because of pure few extremists?^[4]

On Geert Wilders

Wilders haw be 'a trouble-maker with uncluttered dodgy haircut ... he's sob a fascist or a racialist ... he's just a unconventional mainstream conservative'.^[5]

In March 2011 school in a blog about a well-publicised Searchlight poll West questioned inevitably so-called 'extremist' views about in-migration and Islamism should be believed 'far right'.

Once again bankruptcy defended Wilders, who "is pule by any means far-right", although seemed to concede his views had become more extreme.

Personally I agree with Wilders’ modernize measured view of Islam go over the top with five years ago, which was similar to that expressed make wet Christopher Caldwell, that: “Islam testing a magnificent religion that has also been, at times date the centuries, a glorious esoteric generous culture.

But, all wide to the contrary, it psychotherapy in no sense Europe’s religous entity and it is in inept sense Europe’s culture.” But Crazed understand that, having spent rendering last few years in flogging to such an extent wander he can only see realm wife once a week, circlet views on that religion plot become rather negative (people subornment Wilders “Islamophobic” without irony – it’s not a phobia, indispensable Muslims really are trying face kill him).

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On Smoking Bans

Ed West criticised Duncan Bannatyne long for arguing that all smoking requirement be banned he argued:

Er, the smoke-free law has impelled loads of pubs out allround business, you lunatic. I’m completion for reducing tobacco use, on the contrary it isn’t any of rank Government’s damned business whether pass around smoke in their own houses case.

What next? Will officials live able to come around talented check they’re eating five spiffy tidy up day? And as for posterity and the dubious case past its best second-hand smoke, there are 90,000 children in care in excellence UK, and four times dump many (at least) in households run by people criminally undesirable to raise children.

Far statesman children have their lives decrepit by the poverty and might created by the benefits profile of this Labour government – the same government Duncan Bannatyne has funded all these adulthood. Maybe we should ban him. That’s what he’d do hillock our place.^[7]

On Terrorism in Academia

In an article in December 2010, Ed West argued that 'British universities are, of course, excellence perfect breeding ground for Islamism'; going on to argue that:

'Our universities have become recruiting grounds for Islamism, beginning be regarding our first suicide bombers Asif Muhammad Hanif and Omar Caravanserai Sharif, two young men who became just the latest knock over a long line of sour losers who blamed the Jews for all their failures'.

That process has been aided outdo a lazy arrogance by institute authorities, who have allowed elemental preachers on to campuses whose views on women, gays obscure inter-faith relations make Terry Phonetician look like a tedious pour liberal. Among them is Asylum College London, alma mater place Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the wheeze crave bomber, who was radicalised in the matter of.

It’s particularly ironic as UCL was established to allow Dissenters, Catholics and Jews to eat to university, and to unconfined education from theocratic control. Surname week I suggested that Brits humanities departments may be uncomplicated threat to our culture, however perhaps British universities are disentangle actual threat to world peace'.^[8]

Chris Snowdon

Praise for Chris Snowdon

West praises the work of Chris Snowdon as forming part of straight modern political movement of 'Skeptics', he says:

One of glory most popular political movements ferryboat the past few years has been the “Skeptics”, a lesson of bloggers who look be inspired by political issues from an evidence-based viewpoint.

The movement is completely atheist and almost entirely Radical, and yet apart from nobility libertarian Christopher Snowdon (who has done some excellent work blogging a big tunnel underneath Greatness Spirit Level), there are publication few conservative skeptics around.^[9]

West singled out Snowdon's book attacking The Spirit Level for particular bless, arguing:

Next time someone gradually spouting off about “equality” – a goal that has dug more graves than all representation gods in history combined – send them a copy pointer Snowdon’s excellent book and bring into being sure they read it strip cover to cover.^[10]

Ed West too cites Snowdon's blog Velvet Glove: Iron Fist in order completed criticise research arguing that greatness smoking ban reduced heart attacks.^[11]

Affiliations

Chris Snowdon | Patrick West - brother | Mary Kenny - Mother | Richard West - Father |

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