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Blogging conference 08: Happiness: a new political challenge?
No comments on Blogging conference 08: Happiness: a new political challenge?On Monday lunchtime I attended a fascinating fringe looking at the concept of “happiness” and its applicability to the political process. Julia Clark, IPSOS Mori Chaired by David Boyle, the fringe began with Julia Clark from IPSOS Mori outlining the conclusions they had gathered on this topic from their public opinion research. She pointed to how the concept of happiness is moving up the public agenda and that so called “soft measures” are becoming the…
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Happiness, a human right?
I’ve been wanting to blog about this confused and superficial article about ‘wellbeing’ ever since I spotted it at the weekend. I’ll skip over the fact that it treats as new a set of ideas that have been part of public debate for at least a decade, or that it confuses the idea of ‘wellbeing’ with that of ‘happiness’. No, what really annoyed me is the big mistake it makes in its very first sentence.…
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Today is Playday
Today, Wednesday 1st August, is Playday, the annual celebration of children’s right to play. See www.playday.org.uk for more details. Source: This content was originally posted on my old Process Guy blog.
