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Patrick Kidd

Diary Editor and Senior Writer at The Times

Writes The Times's Diary column. Author of The Weak Are A Long Time In Politics: https://t.co/zg1eoouBh6. Also churchwarden at @asblackheath

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Articles

  • The last moments of Pompeii

    1 day ago | thetimes.com | Patrick Kidd

  • And that will be England gone

    1 day ago | thecritic.co.uk | Patrick Kidd

    This article is taken from the May 2025 issue of The Critic. To get the full magazine why not subscribe? Right now we’re offering five issues for just £10. Father Christmas didn’t come to Tranquil Vale last year. For more than a decade, the children’s shoe shop in Blackheath had a life-size model of Santa sitting in the window.

  • Time to take back control of our borders? That’s a mug’s game, Keir

    2 days ago | aol.co.uk | Patrick Kidd

    The mugs are back. Back in spirit, anyway. At the 2015 election, Ed Miliband’s Labour offered voters a borders policy with a £5 mug that had “controls on immigration” written on the side. This was, perhaps, a more developed policy than Tony Blair saying “education” three times, but not by much. It was ridiculed. And hated by many in his party. Ten years on, the mug was made flesh and standing behind a lectern.

  • Time to take back control of our borders? That's a mug's game, Keir

    2 days ago | telegraph.co.uk | Patrick Kidd

  • The Ringo Starr of golf majors, but we still love you, yeah, yeah, yeah

    4 days ago | observer.co.uk | Patrick Kidd

    Patrick Kidd casts an eye over the sporting attractions of the week ahead – starting with the poor old PGA. They used to call the PGA Championship “glory’s last shot” when it was played in August, until the soulless beancounters who run American golf decided this might detract from the more lucrative end-of-season FedEx Cup events.

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Patrick Kidd @patrick_kidd
10 May 25

RT @bryansgunn: One of those great European knights https://t.co/IUYqzmZfpC

Patrick Kidd
Patrick Kidd @patrick_kidd
10 May 25

RT @KeithNHumphreys: Excellent interview of comedy legend Jonathan Lynn by @patrick_kidd https://t.co/oO61NnAUmL

Patrick Kidd
Patrick Kidd @patrick_kidd
10 May 25

My gosh. This week’s @ChurchTimes notebook starts with a perfectly nice comparison between Anglicanism and snooker and then suddenly turns into something heartbreaking yet beautiful on adoption and addiction. Thank you @robertstan for quite a rollercoaster https://t.co/UTIXqAVeQa