Blessed are the poor…

The day before yesterday I found out that my children live below the poverty line. And their parents too for that matter, but the news report focused on children. Let me qualify that before anyone gets too worried. They actually meant “relative poverty”, not “extreme poverty”, even though that’s not what was said. Simple “poverty” …

Happy are the poor / middling / filthy rich* (*delete as appropriate)

"Taking all things together, would you say you are very happy, rather happy, not very happy or not happy at all?" That was the question put by the Ipsos research group to 18,687 adults in 24 countries during the first half of November last year as the culmination of a 5 year ongoing survey. The …