Richard Reeves
Articles by Richard Reeves
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Society
Nepotism: is it back?
- 29 September 2003
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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
Politics
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
Politics
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
Politics
Great thinkers of our time - Martha Nussbaum
- 14 July 2003
Richard Reeves on Martha Nussbaum
Ideas
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
Ideas
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
Politics
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
Ideas
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
