The Thing We’ve Been Dying to Hear: Our Quality Of Life Counts
I’m shortly getting the Tube (London Underground) into town, but there are delays on my line. A person under the tube at Tottenham Court Road. My reaction, I’ll get a train via Paddington instead. Sadly even I’ve become immune to a tragic loss of life which has become all too common an occurrence. It’s reported that … Read more
Let’s Get High – Government Issues Happy Pills!
A ridiculous statement obviously – there’s no happy pill ….yet But given some of the reaction toward the government’s commitment to societal Wellbeing and Happiness you’d think the state had lost the plot. David Cameron’s announcement last week shouldn’t have come as a surprise; it’s not recent thinking. He was upfront about his views on … Read more
Nanny Wants to Know – Are You A Well Happy Being?
The UK Government is now taking Wellbeing seriously and looking our prosperity as a nation from a new survey capturing happiness index so that we look at quality of life not just quantitative measures of our success as a nation. I’m not surprised with the sarcasm and cynicism of some quarters saying that this is a ‘waste of time’ and … Read more
Gotta love Jon Stewart: The Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear is spot on!
‘Lighten- up’; humour, playfulness and plain silliness is seriously powerful stuff! It’s arguably the quickest way to turn people towards an idea, principle or joint purpose by allowing us to share our feelings, thoughts and attitudes in a non-threatening creative way. In my piece on ‘Stay Something Stupid’; I talked about how critical humour was … Read more
Fairness: Is ‘Emotional Means Testing’ what we’re really after?
Listening to the piece on fairness on Radio 4′s Today programme got me thinking. It was the last in a series of short pieces on societal fairness in light of the impending government cuts and the impact on social needs within our society. This time the voices were from a focus group discussing the concept of fairness. … Read more
