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Sam Parker

@samparker.bsky.social
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Author of Good Anger: How Rethinking Rage Can Change Our Lives, out with Bloomsbury now. Digital Director of British GQ.

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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 19/06/2025
Anger is rarely thought of as positive – but the emotion itself exists to protect us, says author of Good Anger, Sam Parker.
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Is it true that I ‘don’t get angry’? Or am I actually dangerously suppressing it?
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Bloomsbury Books UK @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
🟡 Good Anger - Sam Parker Journalist Sam Parker investigates how one of our most complex emotions became a taboo and the cost that suppressing it has on our lives. Read more - www.bloomsbury.com/uk/good-ange...
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Sam Parker @samparker.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Really enjoyed going on The Gist to talk about anger suppression, the history of the deadly sins and the problems with wellness culture youtu.be/ZF9qOt-fASs?...
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Samuel Parker: Why Anger Isn’t the Enemy—It’s the Key to Action
YouTube video by The Gist
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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 28/07/2025
“Anger is a firm but loving voice telling us to stand up and fight on our own behalf.” So writes @samparker.bsky.social in his new book, which Emily Bootle reviews here. Do we need to completely rethink our relationship with the “black sheep of the emotional family”? www.prospectmagazine...
prospectmagazine.co.uk
Anger management: why we need to rethink this stigmatised emotion
Pent-up rage is defining our century. To stop it overwhelming everything, we first need to admit that it’s fine to get mad
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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 21/07/2025
“Anger is a firm but loving voice telling us to stand up and fight on our own behalf.” So writes @samparker.bsky.social in his new book, which Emily Bootle reviews here. Do we need to completely rethink our relationship with the “black sheep of the emotional family”? www.prospectmagazine...
prospectmagazine.co.uk
Anger management: why we need to rethink this stigmatised emotion
Pent-up rage is defining our century. To stop it overwhelming everything, we first need to admit that it’s fine to get mad
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Sam Parker @samparker.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Wonderful to see a review of my book, Good Anger, on the cover here. It’s a very thorough, fair and thoughtful piece.
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Sam Parker @samparker.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Rethinking a stigmatised emotion. My book reviewed in Prospect magazine. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/7047...
prospectmagazine.co.uk
Anger management: why we need to rethink this stigmatised emotion
Pent-up rage is defining our century. To stop it overwhelming everything, we first need to admit that it’s fine to get mad
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Aaron Balick 🍉 @aaronbalick.com · 08/07/2025
When I say “midlife crisis” you think of Mr. Boomer’s new red sports car. But that image comes from a concept that’s 60 years old! These days the crisis of meaning does not wait until midlife. www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/midl...
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What a ‘midlife crisis’ means for Millennials
Contemplating ‘what it’s all for’ used to hit around your 40s. Today, we’re asking ourselves that question sooner and sooner. So what can we do about it?
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Aaron Balick 🍉 @aaronbalick.com · 07/07/2025
It’s not your father’s midlife crisis. Millennials can expect it sooner, and differently. Here’s how to meet a crisis of meaning before it becomes a crisis. My latest for GQ: www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/midl...
gq-magazine.co.uk
What a ‘midlife crisis’ means for Millennials
Contemplating ‘what it’s all for’ used to hit around your 40s. Today, we’re asking ourselves that question sooner and sooner. So what can we do about it?
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Aaron Balick 🍉 @aaronbalick.com · 07/06/2025
Big congrats to @samparker.bsky.social whose brand new book “Good Anger” is out now - and boy do we need it now more than ever! One good doctor describes it as “enlightening and compulsory reading” - I wholeheartedly agree! Out now in all good bookstores.
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Sam Parker @samparker.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Wrote a thing about whether babies ruin your life or not, from my lofty position as a first-time Dad to a 5 month old goodanger.substack.com/p/on-whether...
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On whether having a baby ruins your life or not
A list of pros and cons for anyone considering procreating
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Aaron Balick 🍉 @aaronbalick.com · 18/03/2025
Freud’s famous statement about the potential for psychoanalysis to “transform neurotic misery into ordinary unhappiness” is less pessimistic and more profound than it appears at first glance. 🧵 1/7
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Sam Parker @samparker.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
A few weeks before Good Anger comes out, a show about rage has topped Netflix. The time for new convo about the most misunderstood emotion is now! open.substack.com/pub/goodange...
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Adolescence and the real ‘anger problem’ we face
Toxic influencers and undereducated parents only scratch the surface when it comes to the deep cultural challenges we have with the last taboo emotion
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Sam Parker @samparker.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
One thing I didn't expect is how boring Trump 2 and the TikTokification of news would be. A fresh, 3-second long outrage every single day? It's enough to make you want to bury your head in a 300-page local planning document just for some thrills.
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Sam Parker @samparker.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Seeing that line up of tech CEOs at Trump's Big Day, it's hard to escape the feeling quitting Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok and Amazon is now a moral imperative.
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Sam Parker @samparker.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
First thing I've managed to write during paternity leave and it's about how our baby has spiritually broken our cat goodanger.substack.com/p/our-newbor...
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Our newborn has sent our cat into a deep depression
We are witnessing a feline ego death
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Sam Parker @samparker.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Not saying the early days of parenting are an emotional rollercoaster but this message from my local butcher almost sent me
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Sam Parker @samparker.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Love this time of year when you can think shit like ‘maybe I’ll get really into pickling’ and give it the contemplation it deserves
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Sam Parker @samparker.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Thanks @the-independent.com for naming Good Anger a book to look out for in 2025! 📚https://independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/books-2025-fiction-non-fiction-b2662678.html
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Sam Parker @samparker.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
My cat is well into her teenage years. Only speaks to me when she wants food, looks at me with disdain when I do anything, and only comes for a cuddle once every six months.
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Amy Jones @jimsyjampots.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
This is a really fucking great profile.
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Sam Parker @samparker.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
The brilliant Danny Dyer on therapy, drugs and 'becoming wank material for middle-class women' since Rivals. Ending 2024 with one of my favourite GQ interviews of the year thanks to @hayleycampbell.bsky.social www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/dann...
gq-magazine.co.uk
Everyone's thirsty for Danny Dyer
For years, he was a shorthand for the excesses of lad culture; these days, he’s a champion for healthy masculinity. Now, thanks to Disney’s bonkbuster hit Rivals, Danny Dyer is entering his third and ...
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Longreads @longreads.com · 13/12/2024
5. "Jude Law’s Beautiful Disappearing Act" (Sam Parker) "The second the seatbelt sign switches off, my phone buzzes with a text from Jude Law. Have I had a good flight, he asks?" www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/jude...
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Jude Law’s beautiful disappearing act
For decades, he’s captivated audiences as a certain kind of character: charming. Handsome. Beautiful, even. So much so that people saw him that way, too. Now 51, and with a run of prestige talked-abou...
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Sam Parker @samparker.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
We're going to need a second enlightenment at this rate. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Steven Bartlett sharing harmful health misinformation on Diary of CEO podcast
Disproven health claims are accepted with little challenge by host on number one podcast, BBC investigation finds.
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Sam Parker @samparker.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
How Alice Munro's fiction walks 'a tightrope between blindness and insight' when it came to her abusive partner. Fascinating piece about how art can be used to explore (& exercise control over) things writers are afraid or unwilling to confront in real life #BookSky www.nytimes.com/2024/12/08/m...
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What Alice Munro Knew
The Nobel-winning author’s husband was a pedophile who targeted her daughter and other children. Why did she stay silent?
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Longreads @longreads.com · 07/12/2024
"When he started acting, that was his goal: to be an enigma, a shape-shifter, a performer who vanished into roles. The problem was that from the moment he became famous, audiences wanted something different." —Sam Parker for @gqmagazine.bsky.social #longreads www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/jude...
gq-magazine.co.uk
Jude Law’s beautiful disappearing act
For decades, he’s captivated audiences as a certain kind of character: charming. Handsome. Beautiful, even. So much so that people saw him that way, too. Now 51, and with a run of prestige talked-abou...
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Sam Parker @samparker.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Parents! What’s the single biggest tip you’d give to a new parent? (Ideally something practical or uplifting rather ‘pRepaRe to fOrgeT what sleEp MeAnS!! 🤪’)
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Sam Parker @samparker.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Ah but come on now this is brilliant youtu.be/DqJDNXcqcbs?...
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USYK vs FURY 2 | OFFICIAL PROMO
YouTube video by USYK17
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Sam Parker @samparker.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Long shot, but my sister has recently gotten into weight lifting, and want to find her a book about it for her 50th birthday. Not a fitness guide, something more like a story / memoir on how it can be lifechanging etc. Anyone have any recommendations? #booksky
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Gerry McBride @gerrymcbride.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Good man yourself Oedipus, how’re ye keeping these days, tell me now, do y’still have the
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Sam Parker @samparker.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Rather than a coordinated conspiracy of information suppression and elitist ideology, the ‘mainstream media’ is mostly disparate bunches of hungover people trying to keep their jobs and making it up as they go along.
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Sam Parker @samparker.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Ever since Trump 2 I’ve gone from a daily news and politics junkie to tuning it all out and only listening to history podcasts and music. Feel vaguely guilty but also liberated and calmer. Has anyone else done something like this?
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Sam Parker @samparker.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
So this is how literature ends. Not with a bang, but a man bun.
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Sam Parker @samparker.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
It is a rare privilege these days to sit with a profile subject for 5+ hours, but I have tried to do that access justice speaking to an older, wiser, but still offensively handsome Jude Law about aging, fame and letting go of people pleasing www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/jude...
gq-magazine.co.uk
Jude Law’s beautiful disappearing act
For decades, he’s captivated audiences as a certain kind of character: charming. Handsome. Beautiful, even. So much so that people saw him that way, too. Now 51, and with a run of prestige talked-abou...
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Sam Parker @samparker.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Just found the most pristine, untouched bench in Britain
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Sam Parker @samparker.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
media.tenor.com
a man in a suit and tie says " you 're always with the drama , you "
ALT: a man in a suit and tie says " you 're always with the drama , you "
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Sam Parker @samparker.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Gladiator 2 lost me the moment a handful of men with swords weren’t ripped limb from limb by 20 rabid monkeys within 10 seconds, sadly.
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Sam Parker @samparker.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
“It’s nice not to wear sneakers. It’s nice to stand up straight. It’s nice to feel your shoes are just a little too narrow, and you have to sit differently. The hair is perfect. The moustache is well cut. It’s kind of a respect to everyone around.” www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/haid...
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Haider Ackermann takes the Tom Ford Throne
The role of a fashion designer is one usually forged in chaos and fired down by “creative differences”. But on the eve of a new Tom Ford directorship, Haider Ackermann has never felt more free
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Sam Parker @samparker.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Just wanted to show everyone my cat Joni Mitchell.
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Sam Parker @samparker.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Full marks to whoever convinced Southeastern to launch a podcast rather than waste money on reliable trains, affordable tickets or useable WiFi for its customers.
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Sam Parker @samparker.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
So what’s the deal with ‘trending topics’? is there an equivalent way to find out what everyone is flapping gums about?
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Sam Parker @samparker.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
All we need now is a Facebook replacement called CircleBack
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Sam Parker @samparker.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Every time I glance at the news it's TRUMP MAKES RENOWNED PAEDOPHILE MINISTER FOR CHILDREN and I just can't
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Sam Parker @samparker.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
A piece I enjoyed yesterday. Is it time to talk about the '20th Century novel'? www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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Is the Twentieth-Century Novel a Genre?
An ambitious new book sees hidden currents linking writers as disparate as Colette, Thomas Mann, D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, Ralph Ellison, and Chinua Achebe.
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Sam Parker @samparker.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
My first book, Good Anger, is out June next year. Here's a bit about it goodanger.substack.com/p/why-anger
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Why anger?
On writing a book about the least understood emotion
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Sam Parker @samparker.bsky.social · 24/10/2024
Oscar Wilde, obviously.
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Sam Parker @samparker.bsky.social · 24/10/2024
Moving here after Twitter feels like getting divorced and trying to remember how to date again.
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Sam Parker @samparker.bsky.social · 22/10/2024
before I get stuck in, does anyone know if this place is going to bought by a fascist-enabling James Bond baddie in about ten year's time?
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