Patrick West

Showing posts with label Satire. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Satire. Show all posts

Thursday, 26 June 2014

in spiked, June 10, 2014

 
Rik Mayall: the people’s poet is dead
In the role of The Young Ones' Rick, Mayall was responsible for one of the great creations of postwar British comedy.
Posted by Patrick West at 12:59 No comments:
Labels: Comedy, Satire, Television

Wednesday, 17 March 2010

in the Telegraph, March 15, 2010


Airplane! killed off aircraft disaster movies. Now we need a merciless parody of Avatar
Posted by Patrick West at 10:47 No comments:
Labels: Film, Satire
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Patrick West
is a freelance writer and columnist for Spiked and author of 'Get Over Yourself: NIetzsche For Our Times'. Born in London in 1974, he graduated from Manchester University in 1997 with an MA in Cultural History. He has written for The Times, New Statesman, Spectator, the Times Literary Supplement, Sunday Independent (Ireland), The Irish Post, Living Marxism, Standpoint, The Catholic Herald and The Critic. 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), 'Get Over Yourself: Nietzsche For Our Times' (Societas, 2017) and editor of 'The Times Questions Answered' (HarperCollins, 2004). 'Les misèries del multiculturalisme' was published in Catalan in 2013 by Edicions La Mussara.
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