Richard Reeves
Articles by Richard Reeves
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UK Politics
Brown's moral compass
- 27 November 2006
- 1 comment
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
Politics
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?
Ideas
Resilience - Weathering the storm
- 24 July 2006
Why are some people so much better than others at bouncing back?
Ideas
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
Politics
Religion - And the left - Should the state 'do god'?
- 10 April 2006
The relationship between religion and politics needs a radical rethink
Politics
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)
Politics
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
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
Ideas
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
