It is now possible to quantify people's levels of happiness pretty accurately by asking them, by observation, and by measuring electrical activity in….

How do you make any sense of history, art or literature without knowing the stories and iconography of your own culture and all the world's main reli….

Crime is only the worst example, but it is a paradigm for other Labour policy disasters. No one tells the voters that crime is falling: let them stay….

Could a government dare to set out with happiness as its goal? Now that there are accepted scientific proofs, it would be easy to audit the progress ….

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

Feminism is the most revolutionary idea there has ever been. Equality for women demands a change in the human psyche, more profound than anything Mar….

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 ri….

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

People want the right to die at a time of their own choosing. Too many families have watched helplessly as a relative dies slowly, longing for death..

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

Happiness is a real, objective phenomenon, scientifically verifiable. That means people and whole societies can now be measured over time and compare….

So what really works? Treatments in jail do some good, but it's mostly too late: finding a family and a job or just growing older make most prisoners….

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

Nothing keeps people together like the exalted conviction that they alone are to be spared that eternal anguish of hell fire to which everyone else w….

But how odd that in this heathen nation of empty pews, where churches' bare, ruined choirs are converted into luxury loft living, a Labour government….

My mother begged doctors to end her life. She was beyond the physical ability to swallow enough of the weak morphine pills she had around her. When s….

The pens sharpen – Islamophobia! No such thing. Primitive Middle Eastern religions, and most others, are much the same – Islam, Christianity and Juda….

Openness about death has led to greater care about all aspects of dying..

One in six people suffer depression or a chronic anxiety disorder. These are not the worried well but those in severe mental pain with conditions cri….

The strongest predictor of unhappiness is anyone who has had a mental illness in the last 10 years. It is an even stronger predictor of unhappiness t….

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