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The politics of wellbeing

  • Not wellbeing, but wellbecoming

    Pat Kane

    Pat Kane: The role of the state should be to help us live interesting, surprising, memorable lives.

  • The road to wellbeing

    Derek Draper

    Derek Draper: British political discourse is undergoing a sea-change, as last night's debate showed.

  • Libby Brooks

    Donations to clarity

    Libby Brooks

    Libby Brooks: Last night's debate on the politics of wellbeing attracted many disparate voices, but to keep the conversation going we need much more focus.

  • That's what friends are for

    Mark Vernon

    The ancient Greek philosophers put a high value on friendship and we should learn from this in the wellbeing debate.

  • Money or your life

    James Purnell

    James Purnell: Gross national product doesn't measure happiness.

  • Libby Brooks

    Joy divisions

    Libby Brooks

    Libby Brooks: Happiness is a privilege, but the current debate on wellbeing risks turning it into a commodity.

  • Money is not the root of all evil

    Tim Loughton

    Tim Loughton: Oliver James misdiagnoses the causes of growing mental health as the result of financial inequality.

  • It's a mad world

    Oliver James

    Oliver James: We need to eradicate the virus of 'affluenza' and improve our mental health - and there are two fundamental policies that can help.

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