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My Lords temporal, today is the day to rise up against the regiment of Lords spiritual and proclaim the values of enlightenment, compassion and common sense.

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Could a government dare to set out with happiness as its goal? Now that there are accepted scientific proofs, it would be easy to audit the progress of national happiness annually, just as we monitor money and GDP.

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Inequality makes everyone unhappy, the poor most of all, and that is well within the remit of the state. More money gives less extra happiness the richer we get, yet we are addicted to earning and spending more every year.

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Thresholds of pain, indignity and incapacity are entirely personal.

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Crime is only the worst example, but it is a paradigm for other Labour policy disasters. No one tells the voters that crime is falling: let them stay scared senseless.

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Happiness is a real, objective phenomenon, scientifically verifiable. That means people and whole societies can now be measured over time and compared accurately with one another. Causes and cures for unhappiness can be quantified.

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In the polls, over 80% support the right to die and have done for the last 25 years. Even 80% of practising Catholics and Protestants support it, plus 76% of Church Times readers.

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People want the right to die at a time of their own choosing. Too many families have watched helplessly as a relative dies slowly, longing for death.

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This is indeed a clash of civilisations, not between Islam and Christendom but between reason and superstition.

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But the single overwhelming reason why jails are bursting is longer sentences given for more crimes.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Journalist

Born: December 27th, 1946

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