Aaron Reeves
@aaronreeves.bsky.social
Professor of Sociology, LSE - http://aaronreeves.org/ - New Book: Born to Rule: https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674257719
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Aaron Reeves
@aaronreeves.bsky.social
· Nov 25
The best books of 2024, as chosen by The Economist
Readers will never think the same way again about games, horses and spies
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'Born to Rule' has been listed as one of the @economist.com's Best Books of 2024. www.economist.com/culture/2024...
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We found that if you talk about scrapping the 2 child limit right (emphasising poverty's role in poor life chances) it's not even unpopular!
And honestly I don't give a fuck if it's popular or not. It's going to make a lot of kids' lives better. That's the point of government. Not an opinion poll.
November 26, 2025 at 2:19 PM
We found that if you talk about scrapping the 2 child limit right (emphasising poverty's role in poor life chances) it's not even unpopular!
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Scrapping the two-child limit will be transformational for children.
This is a much-needed fresh start in our country’s efforts to eradicate child poverty and while there is more to do it gives us strong foundations to build on.
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This is a much-needed fresh start in our country’s efforts to eradicate child poverty and while there is more to do it gives us strong foundations to build on.
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November 26, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Scrapping the two-child limit will be transformational for children.
This is a much-needed fresh start in our country’s efforts to eradicate child poverty and while there is more to do it gives us strong foundations to build on.
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This is a much-needed fresh start in our country’s efforts to eradicate child poverty and while there is more to do it gives us strong foundations to build on.
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Scrapping the two-child limit in full is a monumental decision. Well done to all involved in the Child Poverty Strategy, and everyone who has made the case against the policy.
OBR says scrapping costs £3 billion in 2029-30 and will lift 450,000 out of poverty
OBR says scrapping costs £3 billion in 2029-30 and will lift 450,000 out of poverty
November 26, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Scrapping the two-child limit in full is a monumental decision. Well done to all involved in the Child Poverty Strategy, and everyone who has made the case against the policy.
OBR says scrapping costs £3 billion in 2029-30 and will lift 450,000 out of poverty
OBR says scrapping costs £3 billion in 2029-30 and will lift 450,000 out of poverty
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The fight to end child poverty goes on. But today we must celebrate. It will make a real, lasting difference to families the breadth of the UK and I’m so grateful to everyone in @changingrealities.bsky.social & @cpaguk.bsky.social who have advocated tirelessly for its full abolition
www.changingrealities.org
November 26, 2025 at 2:37 PM
The fight to end child poverty goes on. But today we must celebrate. It will make a real, lasting difference to families the breadth of the UK and I’m so grateful to everyone in @changingrealities.bsky.social & @cpaguk.bsky.social who have advocated tirelessly for its full abolition
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On my knees BEGGING journalists to stop calling it the “two-child benefit cap”. It’s two measures, the two-child limit, and the benefit cap. One is going, the other one isn’t.
November 26, 2025 at 3:02 PM
On my knees BEGGING journalists to stop calling it the “two-child benefit cap”. It’s two measures, the two-child limit, and the benefit cap. One is going, the other one isn’t.
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this week's newsletter is titled "aren't you tired of feeling insane all the time?" and I think it speaks for itself
it is also free to read
youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/arent-you-...
it is also free to read
youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/arent-you-...
November 21, 2025 at 10:18 AM
this week's newsletter is titled "aren't you tired of feeling insane all the time?" and I think it speaks for itself
it is also free to read
youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/arent-you-...
it is also free to read
youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/arent-you-...
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I wrote a little bit about the "missing heritability" question and several recent studies that have brought it to a close. A short 🧵
The missing heritability question is now (mostly) answered
Not with a bang but with a whimper
theinfinitesimal.substack.com
November 21, 2025 at 10:34 PM
I wrote a little bit about the "missing heritability" question and several recent studies that have brought it to a close. A short 🧵
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It’s the exclusive everyone wanted, the story that will win next year’s Pulitzer…
I can reveal London’s giant AI generated Christmas artwork, the subject of much online mockery, is being torn down - and I honestly *genuinely* think you’ll never guess why. www.londoncentric.media/p/ai-artwork...
I can reveal London’s giant AI generated Christmas artwork, the subject of much online mockery, is being torn down - and I honestly *genuinely* think you’ll never guess why. www.londoncentric.media/p/ai-artwork...
London's giant AI artwork to be torn down
The bizarre story of why a much-talked-about creation is being torn down. Plus: Docklands Light Railway extension, giant laser stalks the night sky, and more tales of Android phone theft rejection.
www.londoncentric.media
November 20, 2025 at 7:18 AM
It’s the exclusive everyone wanted, the story that will win next year’s Pulitzer…
I can reveal London’s giant AI generated Christmas artwork, the subject of much online mockery, is being torn down - and I honestly *genuinely* think you’ll never guess why. www.londoncentric.media/p/ai-artwork...
I can reveal London’s giant AI generated Christmas artwork, the subject of much online mockery, is being torn down - and I honestly *genuinely* think you’ll never guess why. www.londoncentric.media/p/ai-artwork...
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NEW: Lasse Folke Henriksen, Jacob Aagard Lunding, Christoph Houman Ellersgaard, Anton Grau Larsen, "The Hardcore Brokers: Core-Periphery Structure and Political Representation in Denmark’s Corporate Elite Network" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...
sociologicalscience.com
November 18, 2025 at 5:30 PM
NEW: Lasse Folke Henriksen, Jacob Aagard Lunding, Christoph Houman Ellersgaard, Anton Grau Larsen, "The Hardcore Brokers: Core-Periphery Structure and Political Representation in Denmark’s Corporate Elite Network" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...
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📝 A new report by Dr Kitty Stewart, Professor Ruth Patrick and Professor @aaronreeves.bsky.social shows why tackling child poverty requires removing the controversial two-child limit and benefit cap.
Read the full report ➡️ buff.ly/bFN4kga
Read the full report ➡️ buff.ly/bFN4kga
November 14, 2025 at 12:01 PM
📝 A new report by Dr Kitty Stewart, Professor Ruth Patrick and Professor @aaronreeves.bsky.social shows why tackling child poverty requires removing the controversial two-child limit and benefit cap.
Read the full report ➡️ buff.ly/bFN4kga
Read the full report ➡️ buff.ly/bFN4kga
New analysis with @ruthpatrick0.bsky.social and @kittyjstewart.bsky.social: If we are serious about trying to reduce child poverty we cannot rely on employment alone. We need serious investment in social security.
largerfamilies.study/publications...
largerfamilies.study/publications...
Benefit changes and larger families
We are a group of university-based researchers investigating how families with more than two children are coping with the benefit cap or the two-child limit.
largerfamilies.study
November 12, 2025 at 1:38 PM
New analysis with @ruthpatrick0.bsky.social and @kittyjstewart.bsky.social: If we are serious about trying to reduce child poverty we cannot rely on employment alone. We need serious investment in social security.
largerfamilies.study/publications...
largerfamilies.study/publications...
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Today, brand new analysis from @kittyjstewart.bsky.social @aaronreeves.bsky.social & me on why it’s just not possible to turn the dial on child poverty w/ employment alone. We need investment in social security & we need to end the two-child limit & the benefit cap sticerd.lse.ac.uk/CASE/_NEW/PU...
Why we won’t turn the tide on child poverty with employment alone
Child poverty in the UK is high and rising, at huge cost both to individual lives and to society. Without action, the number of children living in poverty could rise from 4.5 to 4.7 million by the end...
sticerd.lse.ac.uk
November 12, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Today, brand new analysis from @kittyjstewart.bsky.social @aaronreeves.bsky.social & me on why it’s just not possible to turn the dial on child poverty w/ employment alone. We need investment in social security & we need to end the two-child limit & the benefit cap sticerd.lse.ac.uk/CASE/_NEW/PU...
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My article, “How Eurocrats Negotiate the Path From Crisis to Routine: Tracing the Micro-Foundations of Routinisation After the Greek Crisis,” is now published —open access thanks to the @eui-eu.bsky.social — in the @jcms-eu.bsky.social
Read the paper here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Read the paper here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
How Eurocrats Negotiate the Path From Crisis to Routine: Tracing the Micro‐Foundations of Routinisation After the Greek Crisis
Whilst institutional change following the eurozone crisis is well documented, the mechanisms underlying this change remain less understood. This article examines how EU officials negotiated the routi....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 28, 2025 at 9:46 AM
My article, “How Eurocrats Negotiate the Path From Crisis to Routine: Tracing the Micro-Foundations of Routinisation After the Greek Crisis,” is now published —open access thanks to the @eui-eu.bsky.social — in the @jcms-eu.bsky.social
Read the paper here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Read the paper here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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In Paris to pick up a trophy today! Honoured that the European Academy of Sociology found my article with Carina Mood interesting enough that they gave it their Best Article Prize.
I look forward to a day of presentations and discussions.
And the article is here
doi.org/10.1177/0003...
I look forward to a day of presentations and discussions.
And the article is here
doi.org/10.1177/0003...
November 8, 2025 at 7:24 AM
In Paris to pick up a trophy today! Honoured that the European Academy of Sociology found my article with Carina Mood interesting enough that they gave it their Best Article Prize.
I look forward to a day of presentations and discussions.
And the article is here
doi.org/10.1177/0003...
I look forward to a day of presentations and discussions.
And the article is here
doi.org/10.1177/0003...
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Which one is more English?
November 6, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Which one is more English?
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A huge congratulations to @samfriedman.bsky.social and
@aaronreeves.bsky.social who have won a Silver Lovie Award for their research video "Wealth, influence, and class: the British elite explained" 🏆🎉
winners.lovieawards.com/categories/d...
@aaronreeves.bsky.social who have won a Silver Lovie Award for their research video "Wealth, influence, and class: the British elite explained" 🏆🎉
winners.lovieawards.com/categories/d...
Details
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November 6, 2025 at 1:40 PM
A huge congratulations to @samfriedman.bsky.social and
@aaronreeves.bsky.social who have won a Silver Lovie Award for their research video "Wealth, influence, and class: the British elite explained" 🏆🎉
winners.lovieawards.com/categories/d...
@aaronreeves.bsky.social who have won a Silver Lovie Award for their research video "Wealth, influence, and class: the British elite explained" 🏆🎉
winners.lovieawards.com/categories/d...
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The health inequalities agenda is "tired and risks having run out of road" - not my words, the words of a senior health policymaker in the Scottish Government. But other SG policymakers told me health inequalities were a "huge priority" - so what's going on? A thread... 1/
November 5, 2025 at 2:58 PM
The health inequalities agenda is "tired and risks having run out of road" - not my words, the words of a senior health policymaker in the Scottish Government. But other SG policymakers told me health inequalities were a "huge priority" - so what's going on? A thread... 1/
really great new paper from @katiehiggins.bsky.social
New article out now 🚨
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
@sheffielduni.bsky.social
While researching the wealthy business class in and around Manchester, I stumbled upon CEO peer advisory groups — little-known but powerful sites of elite cohesion. 🧵
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
@sheffielduni.bsky.social
While researching the wealthy business class in and around Manchester, I stumbled upon CEO peer advisory groups — little-known but powerful sites of elite cohesion. 🧵
Therapy Culture for the Business Class: Exploring How CEO Peer Groups Make and Legitimate Elite Cohesion
In the current context of extreme economic inequality and rising concentrations of income and wealth at the top, the social processes through which elites restrict the wider population's access to re...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 4, 2025 at 6:13 PM
really great new paper from @katiehiggins.bsky.social
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I can’t envisage a child poverty strategy which garners any credibility without fully scrapping the two-child limit.
Unconvinced? Check out (even better share) this summary of the peer-reviewed evidence base @kittyjstewart.bsky.social @aaronreeves.bsky.social
largerfamilies.study/publications...
Unconvinced? Check out (even better share) this summary of the peer-reviewed evidence base @kittyjstewart.bsky.social @aaronreeves.bsky.social
largerfamilies.study/publications...
November 1, 2025 at 4:37 PM
I can’t envisage a child poverty strategy which garners any credibility without fully scrapping the two-child limit.
Unconvinced? Check out (even better share) this summary of the peer-reviewed evidence base @kittyjstewart.bsky.social @aaronreeves.bsky.social
largerfamilies.study/publications...
Unconvinced? Check out (even better share) this summary of the peer-reviewed evidence base @kittyjstewart.bsky.social @aaronreeves.bsky.social
largerfamilies.study/publications...
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Excited to finally share my new paper (w/Raphaël Charron-Chénier) out in BJS! Staying Apart for the Kids looks at how older adults consider preserving family wealth in their new relationships. Drawing on my interviews with mid/late-life daters, we show how accumulated wealth shapes dating decisions.
Staying Apart for the Kids? Older American Daters and the Preservation of Family Wealth
Romantic repartnering in later life has received substantial scholarly and public attention in light of population aging and changes in family dynamics. In the United States, the importance of househ...
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October 9, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Excited to finally share my new paper (w/Raphaël Charron-Chénier) out in BJS! Staying Apart for the Kids looks at how older adults consider preserving family wealth in their new relationships. Drawing on my interviews with mid/late-life daters, we show how accumulated wealth shapes dating decisions.
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This was very cathartic to write, and I'm grateful to @samfr.bsky.social for giving me the space to try and set out just why the two-child limit must go, and go in its entirety
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New post out:
"The worst social policy ever"
Today we have a guest post from @ruthpatrick0.bsky.social on the abomination that is the two-child limit and why Labour need to scrap it ASAP.
Lots of data but also powerful testimony.
(Free to read)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...
"The worst social policy ever"
Today we have a guest post from @ruthpatrick0.bsky.social on the abomination that is the two-child limit and why Labour need to scrap it ASAP.
Lots of data but also powerful testimony.
(Free to read)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...
"The worst social policy ever"
We have a couple of bonus guest posts over the next week.
open.substack.com
October 30, 2025 at 2:14 PM
This was very cathartic to write, and I'm grateful to @samfr.bsky.social for giving me the space to try and set out just why the two-child limit must go, and go in its entirety
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New @resfoundation.bsky.social analysis: Any of the rumoured half-measure options for repealing the two-child limit would leave child poverty HIGHER at the end of the Parliament than it was when the Government took power. 🧵https://www.resolutionfoundation.org/publications/no-half-measures/
No half measures • Resolution Foundation
The Government’s long-awaited Child Poverty Strategy is due next month, close to, or contemporaneous with, the Autumn Budget. There have been some welcome announcements already: the over-indexation of...
www.resolutionfoundation.org
October 30, 2025 at 9:09 AM
New @resfoundation.bsky.social analysis: Any of the rumoured half-measure options for repealing the two-child limit would leave child poverty HIGHER at the end of the Parliament than it was when the Government took power. 🧵https://www.resolutionfoundation.org/publications/no-half-measures/
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'In one fell swoop, the government could reduce the number of children growing up in poverty by 330,000 today and save a further 150,000 children from that fate by 2029-30'. Excellent, unambiguous analysis by @resfoundation.bsky.social www.resolutionfoundation.org/publications...
No half measures • Resolution Foundation
The Government’s long-awaited Child Poverty Strategy is due next month, close to, or contemporaneous with, the Autumn Budget. There have been some welcome announcements already: the over-indexation of...
www.resolutionfoundation.org
October 30, 2025 at 8:25 AM
'In one fell swoop, the government could reduce the number of children growing up in poverty by 330,000 today and save a further 150,000 children from that fate by 2029-30'. Excellent, unambiguous analysis by @resfoundation.bsky.social www.resolutionfoundation.org/publications...
Incredibly important read in the build up to the budget!
New post out:
"The worst social policy ever"
Today we have a guest post from @ruthpatrick0.bsky.social on the abomination that is the two-child limit and why Labour need to scrap it ASAP.
Lots of data but also powerful testimony.
(Free to read)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...
"The worst social policy ever"
Today we have a guest post from @ruthpatrick0.bsky.social on the abomination that is the two-child limit and why Labour need to scrap it ASAP.
Lots of data but also powerful testimony.
(Free to read)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...
"The worst social policy ever"
We have a couple of bonus guest posts over the next week.
open.substack.com
October 30, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Incredibly important read in the build up to the budget!
The two child limit and benefit cap are "economically inefficient" because [they] "undermine public health, early years development and educational outcomes.... This in turn increases pressure on local services, including schools, health and housing." www.lbc.co.uk/article/grou...
Group of 40 economists & academics tell Chancellor ending two-child benefit cap will help grow economy | LBC
With less than a month to go before the Budget, the group have written to Rachel Reeves to warn that more than half of larger families could fall into poverty as a direct result of the cap.
www.lbc.co.uk
October 29, 2025 at 12:01 PM
The two child limit and benefit cap are "economically inefficient" because [they] "undermine public health, early years development and educational outcomes.... This in turn increases pressure on local services, including schools, health and housing." www.lbc.co.uk/article/grou...