Sam Parker

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

“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...

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

“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...

Wonderful to see a review of my book, Good Anger, on the cover here. It’s a very thorough, fair and thoughtful piece.

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

Rethinking a stigmatised emotion. My book reviewed in Prospect magazine.

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/7047...

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?

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...

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?

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...

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.

On whether having a baby ruins your life or not A list of pros and cons for anyone considering procreating

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...

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.

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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

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...

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.

What are you doing with all the spare time?!

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.

Our newborn has sent our cat into a deep depression We are witnessing a feline ego death

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...

Thank you! Knackered, clueless but very happy ☺️

Not saying the early days of parenting are an emotional rollercoaster but this message from my local butcher almost sent me

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

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

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.

This is a really fucking great profile.

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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.

We're going to need a second enlightenment at this rate. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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?

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...

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...

"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...

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!! 🤪’)

YouTube video by USYK17 USYK vs FURY 2 | OFFICIAL PROMO

Ah but come on now this is brilliant youtu.be/DqJDNXcqcbs?...

Thanks JS - the Bechdel looks great!

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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