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Tuesday 8 January 2013 Happiness
Ashley Frawley
Happiness is... learning to live with TINA
The politics of happiness encourages us to accept our lot, breathing life back into the patronising idea that you can be ‘poor but happy’.

Monday 16 January 2012
Helene Guldberg
Ignore these pedlars of panic – the kids are all right
Report after report tells us that children are sad, lost and in need of expert intervention. Real-world evidence suggests otherwise.

Wednesday 13 April 2011
Tim Black
Dumbing down the idea of happiness
Under the guise of promoting ‘wellbeing’, the government and advocacy groups are indulging in lifestyle modification.

Thursday 30 April 2009
Tim Black
At least the recession will ‘slow down London’
Why the well-heeled, slow-witted campaigners of the Slow Movement are welcoming the economic downturn.

Wednesday 27 February 2008
Tim Black
You cannot teach people to be happy
Forget force-feeding kids ‘positive psychology’: teachers have more chance of producing happy pupils if they inspire them with knowledge.

Monday 7 August 2006
Daniel Ben-Ami
Who’s happiest: Denmark or Vanuatu?
When two different countries can top two different happiness surveys in the same month, you know there’s something dodgy about happy stats.

Wednesday 31 May 2006
Lee Rowland
Measuring happiness: a fool’s errand
Why psychologists on the hunt for a 'happiness index' have returned empty-handed.

Tuesday 23 May 2006
Frank Furedi
Why the ‘politics of happiness’ makes me mad
If you’re unhappy with state-sponsored happiness programmes, clap your hands.

Thursday 4 May 2006
Daniel Ben-Ami
Happiness and its discontents
spiked-TV: The BBC's The Happiness Formula fails to interrogate whether happiness is an appropriate social goal.

Thursday 11 August 2005
James Murphy
The assault on pleasure
Is a new Puritanism on the march?

Friday 5 August 2005
Rob Lyons
Enjoying the fruits (and veg) of an affluent life
The UK government's annual survey of our eating and drinking habits wasn’t all bad news.

Thursday 7 October 2004
Stephen Bremner
Trying to change the world on the cheap
One thing that the much-feted 'We Are What We Do' campaign won't do is transform society.

 

Time for a serious debate about the welfare state

Has welfarism gone too far? Is it time to trim this massive machine? And more importantly, shouldn’t it be trimmed for the *right* reasons - that is, not in order to save the state money but as a way of protecting communities from the negative impact of constant welfarist intervention?

We’ll be debating these issues at the next session of our spiked drinks events at Portcullis House in London on Monday 3 June at 6.30pm. Find out more here.



15 May 2013
St Angelina, save
us from ourselves!
14 May 2013
Remember, Fergie is for football, not for life

17 May 2013:
The Star Trek hype? It’s illogical, captain.

17 May 2013:
Don Draper: it’s time to buck your ideas up

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