When people mention Prague in the Czech Republic or Riga in Latvia you probably think of booze-fuelled stag parties and liberal attitudes towards sex and drugs. The latest report from the National Opinion Research Centre (NORC) at the University of Chicago shows that since 1994 sexual relations between adults of the same sex has been increasingly [...]
When you first sit down to write a blog you hope people are going to want to read it – unless you plan it as a private journal where you can unburden yourself or have a rant at the world (OK so occasionally I have a rant too). So it’s great for me that so [...]
David Cameron says a government’s actions could make people “feel better as well as worse” and it was “high time” to recognise that GDP was an “incomplete way” of measuring the country’s progress. He confirmed that the government was asking the Office for National Statistics (ONS) to devise ways of measuring wellbeing in addition to tracking [...]
Living together apart (the topic of my first post on this blog) has increased by 40% over the last ten years. According to Halifax Home Insurance and there are now a million such relationships – or 1 in 20 couples with almost 1 in 5 of these “live-apart-ners” 35 or older. The main reason they say they [...]
Football can make people happier. Two economists tried but failed to prove that football was good for a country’s economy. But when they looked at national pride and happiness they got better results. They looked for changes in life satisfaction in 12 European countries over 30 years up to 2004, and especially looked at [...]
“Living together apart” seems to be a popular choice these days, whether to maximise benefits payments or so you can have breathing space to do your own thing. But I wonder how far apart you can actually get with text messaging, skyping, not to mention tweeting and face-book! So what are the reasons people can’t [...]
