Matthew Taylor

Matthew Taylor

Matthew Taylor became Chief Executive of the RSA in November 2006. Prior to this appointment, he was Chief Adviser on Political Strategy to the Prime Minister.

Articles by Matthew Taylor

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Trouble in Manchester

  • 22 September 2008

The RSA's Matthew Taylor on the whispering cabinet minister, an antagonisic local and the train that doubled as a fridge

Blair is dead, long live Blair

  • 31 January 2008
  • 9 comments

Having defined himself against his predecessor, is Gordon Brown now embracing Blair's vision for public services? Matthew Taylor, one-time head of strategy at No 10, detects a conversion in all but name

Why life is good

  • 03 January 2008
  • 37 comments

A dangerous gap exists between our personal experience, which is mainly happy, and our view of a society in decline

Europe split by potty rules

  • 28 July 2003

Observations on the single currency

No wiser and no better informed

  • 30 June 2003

No wiser and no better informed

A turning point for the welfare state

  • 05 May 2003

What about a proper inheritance tax? And state-provided assets for everybody to use when they wish? Matthew Taylor argues that Gordon Brown has started something big

The thinker Blair didn't understand

  • 09 December 2002

Observations on John Rawls

Give your baby a chance

  • 15 July 2002

What became of the idea that every child would get a state bounty?

It's joy for a son of Dunfermline

  • 25 September 2000

Matthew Taylor reveals (almost) the people's choice of new Labour Oscars and turkeys

Men in suits won't sell the euro

  • 28 February 2000

The pro-Europe lobby needs help from taxi drivers and footballers, argues Matthew Taylor

Fidel Castro

The last revolutionary

The last revolutionary

Steve Richards

On Tory policy

Our future in their hands

Science

Religion and Darwin

Since the dawn  of time

James Macintyre

Miliband's dilemma

Brussels is back with a vengeance

Will Self

On Oscar Wilde

Where the Wilde things are

Film review

Bright Star

Bright Star (PG)

Books

Paul Auster

Invisible

Interview

Alain de Botton

The Books Interview: Alain de Botton

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