Richard Reeves

Articles by Richard Reeves

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Nepotism: is it back?

  • 29 September 2003

The right family name, network of friends or marriage partner can still smooth your passage through life. Richard Reeves asks if it could ever be otherwise

NS Essay - 'Brown's stealth socialism has backfired: public opinion is now more Tory than ever'

  • 15 September 2003

Popular political wisdom tells us that the well-paid won't vote for higher taxes. But only by persuading the rich to be less greedy can we have a decent society

How fat became a political issue

  • 18 August 2003

Obesity will soon be the biggest problem facing the National Health Service, costing us all billions of pounds a year. Shouldn't the government take action, asks Richard Reeves

Great thinkers of our time - Martha Nussbaum

  • 14 July 2003

Richard Reeves on Martha Nussbaum

NS Essay - There is a character missing from the cast of political life: the public intellectual

  • 07 July 2003

Academics write in peculiar language for specialist peers; think-tanks are slaves to corporate funding. So will politics now remain an ideas-free zone? By Richard Reeves

NS Essay - 'Envy was the midwife of social justice; now, it reduces the happiness of those who have little to complain about'

  • 31 March 2003

Richard Reeves argues that, if we really want people to be more contented, we should think of how we can stop those who are already comfortably off from aspiring to become richer and richer

We bowl alone, but work together

  • 02 April 2001

Richard Reeves argues that Blair's latest US guru is wrong: community is alive and well; it has simply moved from the neighbourhood to the office

The New Statesman Essay - We should all become time lords

  • 31 July 2000

Richard Reeves argues that we should not campaign for a shorter working week, but for the right to collect our dry-cleaning when we want

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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