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Polly Toynbee
Polly Toynbee
English Journalist
Born: Dec 27, 1946
Government Happiness Pain People Time World
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One in six people suffer depression or a chronic anxiety disorder. These are not the worried well but those in severe mental pain with conditions crippling enough to prevent them living normal lives. Polly Toynbee
Depression People Anxiety Pain Living Enough Chronic Worried Severe Those Crippling Mental Prevent Well Normal Conditions Six Them Disorder Suffer Lives
It is now possible to quantify people's levels of happiness pretty accurately by asking them, by observation, and by measuring electrical activity in the brain, in degrees from terrible pain to sublime joy. Polly Toynbee
Happiness People Joy Pain Possible Degrees Pretty Observation Terrible Quantify Brain Sublime Accurately Them Asking Electrical Measuring Activity Now Levels
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. Polly Toynbee
Happiness Time People Objective Over Another Verifiable Real Scientifically Causes Cures Accurately Unhappiness Means Measured Whole Compared Now Societies Phenomenon
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. Polly Toynbee
Happiness Government Money Progress National Dare Out Would Would-Be Easy Could Accepted Scientific Audit Goal Just Now Monitor Set
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. Polly Toynbee
Today Day Spiritual Compassion Values Sense Temporal Rise Lords Up Common Common Sense Against Regiment Proclaim Enlightenment
Most people come to fear not death itself, but the many terrible ways of dying. Polly Toynbee
Death People Fear Ways Come Most Terrible Itself Dying Many
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. Polly Toynbee
Death Time People Longing Own Too Relative Slowly Families Die Dies Want Choosing Many Right Watched
The best care on earth cannot prevent us all dying in the end. Polly Toynbee
Best Care Earth Prevent End Dying In The End Cannot Us
Thresholds of pain, indignity and incapacity are entirely personal. Polly Toynbee
Pain Entirely Indignity Personal Incapacity
Openness about death has led to greater care about all aspects of dying. Polly Toynbee
Death Care About Openness Greater Led Dying Aspects
My mother begged doctors to end her life. She was beyond the physical ability to swallow enough of the weak morphine pills she had around her. When she knew she was dying I promised to make sure she could go at a time of her choosing, but it was impossible. I couldn't help. Polly Toynbee
Life Time Mother Impossible Doctors Enough Weak Promised Ability Physical Physical Ability Could Had Morphine Knew Beyond She Make Sure Around Pills Go End Dying Swallow Choosing Help Her
This is indeed a clash of civilisations, not between Islam and Christendom but between reason and superstition. Polly Toynbee
Islam Indeed Clash Superstition Between Reason Christendom
But instead of standing up for reason, our government is handing education over to the world of faith. Polly Toynbee
Education Faith Government World Our Instead Over Up Handing Reason Standing Standing Up
How do you make any sense of history, art or literature without knowing the stories and iconography of your own culture and all the world's main religions? Polly Toynbee
Art History You Culture World Own Sense Religions Main Knowing Make Without How Any Stories Literature Iconography Your
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. Polly Toynbee
Crime Example Other Worst Paradigm Tells Stay Scared Only No-One Voters Disasters Policy Falling Labour Senseless Them
But the single overwhelming reason why jails are bursting is longer sentences given for more crimes. Polly Toynbee
Single Overwhelming Crimes Given More Longer Jails Bursting Sentences Reason Why
So what really works? Treatments in jail do some good, but it's mostly too late: finding a family and a job or just growing older make most prisoners eventually give up crime. Polly Toynbee
Good Family Too Late Crime Job Older Too Late Finding Some Give Most Make Mostly Prisoners Up Jail Just Really Works Growing Eventually Treatments

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