Happiness is a real, objective phenomenon, scientifically verifiable. That means people and whole societies can now be measured over time…
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Is anyone serious about the politics of happiness? David Cameron dipped a toe in the water, using the word lightly,…
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How do you make any sense of history, art or literature without knowing the stories and iconography of your own…
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Inequality makes everyone unhappy, the poor most of all, and that is well within the remit of the state. More…
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Could a government dare to set out with happiness as its goal? Now that there are accepted scientific proofs, it…
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It is now possible to quantify people’s levels of happiness pretty accurately by asking them, by observation, and by measuring…
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Mary Louisa “Polly” Toynbee (/ˈtɔɪnbi/; born 27 December 1946) is a British journalist and writer. She has been a columnist…
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Most people come to fear not death itself, but the many terrible ways of dying. Polly Toynbee
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But how odd that in this heathen nation of empty pews, where churches’ bare, ruined choirs are converted into luxury…
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But instead of standing up for reason, our government is handing education over to the world of faith. Polly Toynbee
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