Patrick West
Articles by Patrick West
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World Affairs
We didn't invent fish and chips
- 23 January 2006
Gourmets say "traditional" dishes are being bastardised, but they are missing the point
World Affairs
We're all orientalists now
- 12 December 2005
- 1 comment
Why are we so eager to believe that Sudoku hails from Japan when it doesn't? Patrick West explains
Society
Where Brits are the new imperialists
- 13 September 2004
It's not just US multinationals that trample on other people's cultures. In Dublin's fair city, Tesco, Boots, the Sun and Walkers crisps are taking over. What ever would Eamon de Valera make of it?
Society
Feel the parsnips' pain
- 02 August 2004
Patrick West, a vegetarian, argues that if we concede rights to animals, we must also allow them for vegetables
World Affairs
They all want the luck of the Irish
- 19 July 2004
Does your mother come from Ireland? Patrick West's does and he's fed up with everyone claiming his heritage
Ideas
The philosopher as dangerous liar
- 28 June 2004
- 7 comments
Michel Foucault taught that might is right, truth is relative, and history just an interesting narrative. Why do we still lionise the French philosopher?
World Affairs
When Irish eyes are spying
- 05 January 2004
Ireland has not only banned smoking in restaurants and bars, ministers have also asked citizens to grass on the lawbreakers
