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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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Articles

Read the BBC response to accusations of bias

Society

Editor Robbie Gibb rejects claim that BBC's handling of minister's resignation lacked impartiality

Little Atoms Christmas reads

Words

Our editor's recommendations for fireside reading

Mother Teresa is a weapon in the Vatican's war on women

Pope Francis is reactivating the biggest gun of all in the birth control battle

THE TRUTH ABOUT TWITTER MOMENTS

Wake up sheeple!

The impotent fury of the “BAN IT!” brigade

Society

Calls to censor everyone from Donald Trump to Germaine Greer stem from a sense of powerlessness

Chanukah With Attitude

This, by artist Hannah Rothstein, is the best thing we have ever seen. It's a Dr Dreidel. That is all.

Why is this Tory MP's tweet different from all other tweets?

Science

Mike Freer is Conservative MP for Golders Green, the heart of Britain's Jewish community. So on Sunday, naturally, he sent a tweet out to mark the start of Channukah.

There can be no peace in Syria while Assad remains

World

The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity

Dieudonné's latest conviction is a betrayal of the values we claim to uphold

World

We can't defend liberalism by locking people up for hate speech

If Hitler was a poetry publisher

Words

Just when you thought these things couldn't get any more obscure...

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