[9][non-primary source needed] He was previously a visiting research fellow at Queen's University, Belfast,[10] where he worked on the writings of Forrest Reid.

[11] Doyle originally worked as a teacher, including alongside Simon Warr at Royal Hospital School.

[12] In April 2018 Doyle created the fictional character of Titania McGrath, initially via a parody twitter account.

Doyle also pointed out that if reading the fourth letter of every sentence in the text, it spells out "Titania McGrath wrote this you gullible hacks".

It was positively received by a large number of celebrities including Ricky Gervais, as well as numerous right-leaning commentators.

It was negatively reviewed by Alex Clark in The Guardian, writing that Doyle was making a cheap shot by poking fun at identity politics.

[16][22][23][24] He is the author of Free Speech and Why It Matters (2021)[25] and The New Puritans: How the Religion of Social Justice Captured the Western World (2022).