One In Four Of Us Will Have

The Day Of The Daredevil Reporter Who Refuses To See Obstacles To Getting The Truth, And Seeing It With His Or Her Own Eyes, Seems To Have Died.

Friends Have Suggested That I Am The Least Qualified Person To Talk About Happiness, Because I Am Often Down, And Sometimes Profoundly Depressed. But I Think That's Where My Qualification Comes From. Because To Know Happiness, It Helps To Know Unhappiness.

For All That The Papers Would Say I Was A Liar, I Took The Words I Was Saying At Briefings As Seriously As Tony Blair Took What He Would Say At The Despatch Box. I Find It Very Difficult Not To Tell The Truth. I Felt I Was Accountable For What I Said.

By Asking The Question 'am I Happy?,' And Via The Answer Setting Out What I Mean By Happiness, There Is A Political Route That Can Be Taken, By Asking Another Question - 'can Politics Deliver Happiness, And Should It Try?'

The Thing About Politicians In Britain Is That They Are Out There, You Can Lobby Them, Get Close To Them, There Are Loads Of Ways You Can Protest Against Them, And Booing Is A Pretty Weak Way Of Doing It.