Patrick is head of press and promotions at the Institute of Ideas. He also works part-time for spiked and as a columnist for the Huffington Post and Free Society. He is a producer of the Battle of Ideas festival, which he helped to establish in 2005. He was previously head of research and development at TSL Education, publishers of the TES and THE.

He regularly comments on politics and current affairs for a range of local, national and international media outlets including BBC Radio 5 Live, Sky News, Russia Today and BBC London. He has a first-class degree in Philosophy from the University of Warwick, an MA in Continental Philosophy from the University of Sussex and an Executive MBA from Henley Business School.