Polly Toynbee

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

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

It is now possible to quantify people’s levels of happiness pretty accurately by asking them…

But how odd that in this heathen nation of empty pews, where churches’ bare, ruined…

People want the right to die at a time of their own choosing. Too many…

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

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

Inequality makes everyone unhappy, the poor most of all, and that is well within the…

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

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

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