Inequality makes everyone unhappy, the poor most of all, and that is well within the remit of the state. More money gives less extra happiness the richer we get, yet we are addicted to earning and spending more every year.

Quote by Polly Toynbee

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How do you make any sense of history, art or literature without knowing the stories...

How do you make any sense of history, art or literature without knowing the stories...

Thresholds of pain, indignity and incapacity are entirely personal.

Thresholds of pain, indignity and incapacity are entirely personal.

Working lives are for the state to influence. Unemployment makes people unhappy. So does instability.

Working lives are for the state to influence. Unemployment makes people unhappy. So does instability.

One in six people suffer depression or a chronic anxiety disorder. These are not the...

One in six people suffer depression or a chronic anxiety disorder. These are not the...

The best care on earth cannot prevent us all dying in the end.

The best care on earth cannot prevent us all dying in the end.

Could a government dare to set out with happiness as its goal? Now that there...

Could a government dare to set out with happiness as its goal? Now that there...

Happiness is a real, objective phenomenon, scientifically verifiable. That means people and whole societies can...

Happiness is a real, objective phenomenon, scientifically verifiable. That means people and whole societies can...

Is anyone serious about the politics of happiness? David Cameron dipped a toe in the...

Is anyone serious about the politics of happiness? David Cameron dipped a toe in the...

The strongest predictor of unhappiness is anyone who has had a mental illness in the...

The strongest predictor of unhappiness is anyone who has had a mental illness in the...

But instead of standing up for reason, our government is handing education over to the...

But instead of standing up for reason, our government is handing education over to the...

Crime is only the worst example, but it is a paradigm for other Labour policy...

Crime is only the worst example, but it is a paradigm for other Labour policy...

This is indeed a clash of civilisations, not between Islam and Christendom but between reason...

This is indeed a clash of civilisations, not between Islam and Christendom but between reason...

In the polls, over 80% support the right to die and have done for the...

In the polls, over 80% support the right to die and have done for the...

My Lords temporal, today is the day to rise up against the regiment of Lords...

My Lords temporal, today is the day to rise up against the regiment of Lords...

Most people come to fear not death itself, but the many terrible ways of dying.

Most people come to fear not death itself, but the many terrible ways of dying.

So what really works? Treatments in jail do some good, but it's mostly too late:...

So what really works? Treatments in jail do some good, but it's mostly too late:...

There is all the difference in the world between teaching children about religion and handing...

There is all the difference in the world between teaching children about religion and handing...

But the single overwhelming reason why jails are bursting is longer sentences given for more...

But the single overwhelming reason why jails are bursting is longer sentences given for more...

My mother begged doctors to end her life. She was beyond the physical ability to...

My mother begged doctors to end her life. She was beyond the physical ability to...

It is now possible to quantify people's levels of happiness pretty accurately by asking them,...

It is now possible to quantify people's levels of happiness pretty accurately by asking them,...