Saturday, October 01, 2011

Depressing spirits

The Economix blog reports that, in America, people appear to dislike politics and politicians so much that prompting them to think about them has a very large downward effect on their assessment of their own well being.

Which is depressing news for David Cameron. His name is so closely associated with the new well being surveys to be conducted by our own Office for National Statistics that we might expect people to report that they are several degrees less happy than they would otherwise feel.