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 [...]
Do you and your beloved call yourselves by pet names? When was the last time you called your partner or spouse by their real name? According to two Americans, Maggie Arana and Julienne Davis, using pet names all the time means you lose your sense of individuality and signals the end of your relationship – at [...]
Despite what England fans might feel right now football competitions can make you happy as I said in an earlier post – but only in the short-term – and only if you are the host country. But even that doesn’t make you as happy as a good marriage. Married people are happier than single people (it could be [...]
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 [...]
