Patrick Freyne
Irish Times writer & author of OK, Let's Do Your Stupid Idea & now, out in June, Experts in a Dying Field. You can preorder here: linktr.ee/expertsinadyingfield
- I wrote about Bridgerton and the lot of the worker under sexy feudalism www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-r...
- This is a great book, folks
- Has anyone updated this fascinating piece of social analysis by Dorothy Thompson for the America of today? It feels like a no-brainer but maybe it's too late for that harpers.org/archive/1941...
- (I mean, it's flawed and simplistic and says a lot about her own prejudices but it's still a really interesting mental exercise and piece of social analysis)
- Just found this interview I did aaaages ago with the excellent David Byrne when his book How Music Works came out (it fits with a bunch of stuff I'm thinking & writing about now about art as a product of community & place & the weird notion of "professionalism") www.irishtimes.com/culture/musi...
- I am very ancient and most of my friends were married in weird old pagan ceremonies if they got married at all. well, I have just discovered the concept of having a “Day 2” to a wedding & I’m here to say that thats basically a hostage situation and shouldn’t be allowed
- This is a lovely last parenting column from Séamas (he’s giving up the column not parenting… I think)
- After seven and a half years of weekly parenting columns for the Observer, today's will be my last. I started writing the column a few weeks before becoming a dad, so I've never parented without it. I'll miss it more than I express in words, but I had a go anyway. observer.co.uk/news/columni...
- Working on an article called "156,564 Listicles that Have Been a Waste of my Time"
- Before Trump's election many migration experts said that the people who love the idea of mass deportations in theory wouldn't like it in practice: armed forces on the streets & nurses, doctors, carers, students, colleagues, neighbours, children (not mythical gang members) being targeted.
