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Patrick Kidd is an English journalist, author and blogger specialising in sport generally, and cricket and rowing in particular.
Kidd attended Colchester Royal Grammar School [1] and Cambridge University.
He is currently the diary editor, and was previously a sports writer, for The Times, where he has been working since 2001. [2] [3] He has also written for The Spectator, [4] 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." [5] 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. [2] A collection of his parliamentary sketch-writing, The Weak Are A Long Time In Politics, was published in 2019. [2]
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. [6]
At Cambridge University, he read classics and is a member of the P. G. Wodehouse Society and the Horatian Society. [7]
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. [8] [7]
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Patrick Kidd is an English journalist, author and blogger specialising in sport generally, and cricket and rowing in particular.
Kidd attended Colchester Royal Grammar School [1] and Cambridge University.
He is currently the diary editor, and was previously a sports writer, for The Times, where he has been working since 2001. [2] [3] He has also written for The Spectator, [4] 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." [5] 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. [2] A collection of his parliamentary sketch-writing, The Weak Are A Long Time In Politics, was published in 2019. [2]
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. [6]
At Cambridge University, he read classics and is a member of the P. G. Wodehouse Society and the Horatian Society. [7]
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. [8] [7]