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Richard Layard, an economist, has written a study into how society can be happier. He has long promoted happiness as a better measure of society’s progress than GDP.
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Anton Du Beke on why he’s so happy it makes him cry
Anton Du Beke is not a man easily given to emotion. The original and most popular of all the Strictly Come Dancing professionals, he has spent the majority of his life gliding across polished floors smiling serenely despite dislocated toes, agonising back injuries and a horribly dysfunctional upbringing. ‘I cry all the time now,’ Anton Du … Read more
From Sue Perkins: An Hour Or So With… to Happy Mum, Happy Baby: This week’s top podcasts
From Sue Perkins: An Hour Or So With… to Giovanna Fletcher’s Happy Mum, Happy Baby and The Shrink Next Door, this week’s top podcasts By Leaf Arbuthnot Published: 22:01 BST, 14 March 2020 | Updated: 01:27 BST, 15 March 2020 Sue Perkins: An Hour Or So With… Comedian Perkins rustles up a celebrity guest and … Read more
Happy as a pig (rescued from) muck: Two huge 8000ml tankers save a pig which is scared of mud
Happy as a pig (rescued from) muck: Water bosses send two huge 8000ml tankers to empty a flooded animal reserve to save a pig which is scared – of MUD Barry the pig had become trapped when his field at Trindledown Farm in Newbury, Berkshire was flooded Barry lives at a rescue farm but can’t … Read more