# Patrick Kidd > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Patrick_Kidd > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Patrick_Kidd.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Kidd > Source revision: 1312240645 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) **Patrick Kidd** is an English [journalist](/source/Journalist), author and [blogger](/source/Blog) specialising in [sport](/source/Sport) generally, and [cricket](/source/Cricket) and [rowing](/source/Rowing_(sport)) in particular. ## Education and career Kidd attended [Colchester Royal Grammar School](/source/Colchester_Royal_Grammar_School) and [Trinity College, Cambridge](/source/Trinity_College,_Cambridge), where he read classics.[1][2] While at Cambridge, he was a member of the [P. G. Wodehouse](/source/P._G._Wodehouse) Society and the Horatian Society.[3] He is currently the diary editor, and was previously a sports writer, for *[The Times](/source/The_Times)*, where he has been working since 2001.[4][5] He has also written for *[The Spectator](/source/The_Spectator)*,[6] *[Wisden Cricketers' Almanack](/source/Wisden_Cricketers'_Almanack)* and *[The Wisden Cricketer](/source/The_Wisden_Cricketer)*. He is also a regular [radio](/source/Radio) and [television](/source/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."[7] The blog takes its name from the opening of *[Scoop](/source/Scoop_(novel))*, [Evelyn Waugh](/source/Evelyn_Waugh)'s satire on journalism. Kidd's first book, *Best of Enemies: Whingeing Poms Versus Arrogant Aussies*, was released in early [2009](/source/2009_in_literature). 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.[4] A collection of his parliamentary sketch-writing, *The Weak Are A Long Time In Politics*, was published in 2019.[4] ## Personal life He is one of three children - with siblings, Tom and Rosie. As a child, his family lived on [Mersea Island](/source/Mersea_Island), off the coast of Essex in a semi-detached villa.[8] Kidd now lives in [Eltham](/source/Eltham), London with his wife and two children, and serves as a church warden at [All Saints, Blackheath](/source/All_Saints'_Blackheath), a [Church of England](/source/Church_of_England_parish_church) parish church in Blackheath in London.[9][3] ## Published books - *The Best of Enemies: Whingeing Poms Versus Arrogant Aussies*, Know the Score Books, 2009 (ISBN 1848187033) - *The Worst of Rugby: Violence and Foul Play in a Hooligans' Game Played by Gentlemen*, Pitch Publishing Ltd., 2009 (ISBN 1905411421) - *The Times Diary at 50: The Antidote to the News*, Times Books, 2016 (ISBN 978-0008205522) - *The Weak Are A Long Time In Politics*, Biteback Publishing, 2019 (ISBN 9781785905339) ## References 1. Colchester Royal Grammar School Archives *www.crgs.co.uk* 1. Kidd, Patrick (19 February 2023). ["Reflections for My Student-Aged Self"](http://trinitycollegechapel.com/media/filestore/sermons/2023-2-19-PatrickKidd.pdf). *trinitycollegechapel.com*. Retrieved 21 July 2024. 1. ["Patrick Kidd | Biteback Publishing"](https://www.bitebackpublishing.com/authors/patrick-kidd). *www.bitebackpublishing.com*. Retrieved 2024-05-17. 1. ["Patrick Kidd: Diary editor and senior writer"](https://www.thetimes.com/profile/patrick-kidd?page=1). *The Times*. Retrieved 17 May 2024. 1. ["Best of Enemies: Whinging Poms Versus Arrogant Aussies | the Corridor (A cricket blog)"](https://web.archive.org/web/20090202073746/http://www.cricket.mailliw.com/archives/2009/01/12/best-of-enemies-whinging-poms-versus-arrogant-aussies/). Archived from [the original](http://www.cricket.mailliw.com/archives/2009/01/12/best-of-enemies-whinging-poms-versus-arrogant-aussies/) on 2 February 2009. Retrieved 2009-01-12. 1. ["Patrick Kidd, Author at The Spectator"](https://www.spectator.co.uk/writer/patrick-kidd/). *The Spectator*. 2024-05-16. Retrieved 2024-05-17. 1. Questing Vole [About](https://questingvole.blogspot.com/). 1. Kidd, Patrick (2017-10-12). ["Story of the hurricane"](https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/story-of-the-hurricane/). *The Spectator*. Retrieved 2024-05-17. 1. Kidd, Patrick (2024-05-15). ["The Church of England's volunteering crisis"](https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-church-of-englands-volunteering-crisis/). *The Spectator*. Retrieved 2024-05-17. ## External links - *[Line and Length](https://web.archive.org/web/20090125002012/http://timesonline.typepad.com/line_and_length/)*. - *[The Questing Vole](https://questingvole.blogspot.com/)*. - [Kidd's Twitter](https://twitter.com/patrick_kidd?r=) --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Patrick Kidd](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Kidd) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Kidd?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.