Padraig Reidy

Padraig Reidy is the editor of Little Atoms. He is Director of Editorial at 89up and has written and ghostwritten for The Evening Standard, The Guardian, The Observer, The Irish Times, The Daily Telegraph, The New Statesman, The Sun, and The Irish Post.

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Indoors and introspective - 2020’s cultural highlights

Culture
Film & Music

These are personal choices from the culture that I consumed in 2020. If you choose to take them as recommendations, well, don't blame me.

On Fire Saga, Eurovision, and camp

Culture
Film & Music

What critics, and Britain, still get wrong about the greatest show on Earth

Review: George Galloway’s Queensway

Culture

It’s a novel. By George Galloway. What did you expect?

Interview: Marcus Du Sautoy’s musical journey from AI to Bach

Culture
Events

Do androids dream of eclectic beats?

The tragic tale of Turkmenistan’s missing poet

Culture
World

Batyr Berdyev went from diplomat to prisoner in one of the world’s most oppressive states. Now his poems, smuggled out of jail, have been published in English

Love is a bourgeois construct

Culture
Society

On Sally Rooney’s Conversations With Friends

“Beautiful like machines”

Culture

Sinéad Morrissey’s On Balance is a perfectly poised poetry collection

The Australian doctor who brought the sexual revolution to London

Culture
Society

The World League for Sexual Reform Congress was a milestone in sex and gender politics

Society

We shouldn’t shy from the fact that Brexit negotiations will be nasty, brutish and long

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