Richard Brooks

Richard Brooks has degrees in philosophy and economics, and has worked for several years in a London investment bank. He is currently a member of the Social Policy team at the Institute for Public Policy Research.

The politics of freedom

Throughout Tony Blairs first term as Prime Minister, opponents of his administration attacked it as illiberal, authoritarian and centralist. The response was pretty much, Look, weve got a

By Richard Brooks

/ 7 Aug 2001

Wanted: clear minds on divided lives

British politics is in need of another debate about equality. Three days before the election, Jeremy Paxman posed the Prime Minister one of his famously straight questions: Is it acceptable

By Richard Brooks

/ 13 Jun 2001

Worcester - the city surveyed

Worcestershire is a county in the middle of England on a north-south axis, and the City of Worcester itself lies roughly in the middle of Worcestershire. The city is about

By Richard Brooks

/ 16 May 2001