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Richard Reeves

Articles by Richard Reeves

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Brown's moral compass

  • 27 November 2006
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The man likely to be the next prime minister is as concerned with the "moralisation" of Britain as its modernisation. This is no empty soundbite. As a glance at his bookshelf would reveal, he is passionately and philosophically committed to a compassionate society

Could he just be Labour's future?

  • 25 September 2006

The most important person at Labour's Manchester conference will be nowhere in sight. Like Thatcher and Blair before him, David Cameron is emerging as the politician most in tune with his time. Can Gordon Brown catch him?

Resilience - Weathering the storm

  • 24 July 2006

Why are some people so much better than others at bouncing back?

A long look

  • 03 July 2006

The state must help people put money aside for the future

In search of the good life

  • 22 May 2006

The Secrets of Happiness
Richard Schoch Profile, 288pp, £15.99
ISBN 1861979096
A Brief History of Happiness
Nicholas White Blackwell Publishing, 208pp, £9.99
ISBN 1405115203
The Challenge of Affluence: self-control and well-being in the United States and Britain since 1950
Avner Offer Oxford University Press, 454pp, £30
ISBN 0198208537

Books about happiness are pouring off the presses, but we still haven't cracked the secret of well-being. Is our culture of instant gratification the problem? Is it the job of the state to make us feel better? Richard Reeves ponders some suggestions

Religion - And the left - Should the state 'do god'?

  • 10 April 2006

The relationship between religion and politics needs a radical rethink

The politics column - Richard Reeves

  • 09 January 2006

Maybe an MP or two might cross the floor to Cameron. Could Shaun Woodward do it twice? (Churchill did, after all)

Vote Brown: get Blair!

  • 26 September 2005

The activists are waiting in vain: there is no left turn ahead. If Gordon Brown's record to date is any guide, his premiership could be more Blairite than Blair himself

Politics - Richard Reeves tells the time unaided

  • 20 June 2005

The arrival of more management consultants at Downing Street bodes ill. Rather than injecting real business experience into government, Blair is recruiting in his own image

NS Essay -'If Beethoven had been subject to the EU working hours limit he wouldn't have got further than the Fourth Symphony'

  • 30 May 2005

Britons see work as more central to their lives than other Europeans - and this is assumed to be a bad thing. On the contrary, argues Richard Reeves, for huge numbers of us our well-being and happiness depend on the work we do

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