Patrick Kidd

Education and career

Kidd attended Colchester Royal Grammar School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he read classics. While at Cambridge, he was a member of the P. G. Wodehouse Society and the Horatian Society.

He is currently the diary editor, and was previously a sports writer, for The Times, where he has been working since 2001. He has also written for The Spectator, Wisden Cricketers' Almanack and The Wisden Cricketer. He is also a regular radio and television pundit.

The Times hosted his blog Line and Length, "A very English cricket blog". He also wrote a light-hearted personal blog, The Questing Vole, about politics, history, culture and sport, in which he described himself as "a 1920s eccentric trapped in the body of a 21st-century journalist. Not a very fetching body, either." The blog takes its name from the opening of Scoop, Evelyn Waugh's satire on journalism.

Kidd's first book, Best of Enemies: Whingeing Poms Versus Arrogant Aussies, was released in early 2009. A second book, The Worst of Rugby, was published later that year. He edited an anthology of the first 50 years of the Times Diary. A collection of his parliamentary sketch-writing, The Weak Are A Long Time In Politics, was published in 2019.

Personal life

He is one of three children - with siblings, Tom and Rosie. As a child, his family lived on Mersea Island, off the coast of Essex in a semi-detached villa.

Kidd now lives in Eltham, London with his wife and two children, and serves as a church warden at All Saints, Blackheath, a Church of England parish church in Blackheath in London.

Published books

• The Best of Enemies: Whingeing Poms Versus Arrogant Aussies, Know the Score Books, 2009 ()
• The Worst of Rugby: Violence and Foul Play in a Hooligans' Game Played by Gentlemen, Pitch Publishing Ltd., 2009 ()
• The Times Diary at 50: The Antidote to the News, Times Books, 2016 ()
• The Weak Are A Long Time In Politics, Biteback Publishing, 2019 ()

References

References

1. Colchester Royal Grammar School Archives ''www.crgs.co.uk''
2. Kidd, Patrick (19 February 2023). [http://trinitycollegechapel.com/media/filestore/sermons/2023-2-19-PatrickKidd.pdf "Reflections for My Student-Aged Self"]. ''trinitycollegechapel.com''. Retrieved 21 July 2024.
3. "Patrick Kidd {{!}} Biteback Publishing".
4. "Patrick Kidd: Diary editor and senior writer".
5. "Best of Enemies: Whinging Poms Versus Arrogant Aussies | the Corridor (A cricket blog)".
6. (2024-05-16). "Patrick Kidd, Author at The Spectator".
7. Questing Vole [https://questingvole.blogspot.com/ About].
8. Kidd, Patrick. (2017-10-12). "Story of the hurricane".
9. Kidd, Patrick. (2024-05-15). "The Church of England's volunteering crisis".