An anthropological look at our children

Sir Peter Hall, Regeneration & Renewal, 5 September 2008

A train to Disneyland Paris, or back to London, provides an opportunity for amateur research in social anthropology - especially if you appear to be the only passengers without an accompanying bevy of small children, and if you happen to be reading the August issue of Prospect magazine, with a challenging piece by Richard Reeves on the unfashionable topic of character.

Or rather the formerly unfashionable but now cutting-edge topic of character, animating figures as varied as David Cameron and Blair's policy guru Matthew Taylor. Reeves quotes the long-since-departed J.F. Roxburgh,...

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