What are the Top 10 happiest countries in 2026? Our friends at the World Happiness Report have just published their 2026 rankings, based on self-reported wellbeing. Read on to learn more. Once again, the Nordic countries claim the top spots, with Finland retaining its title as the world’s happiest country. These wealthy, homogenous, high-trust states […]
In December 2025, we launched the Happier Lives Fund (HLF), the easiest way for donors to support the best charities we’ve found so far and the with one donation. How much money was raised? How much impact will it have? After finalising the disbursement of the first batch of donations to the charities, we […]
With research by us at the , Bloom Wellbeing Fund has recently released a new report providing an up to date overview of the problem of mental illness, and the best ways to solve it. Here are our top takeaways from the report, which are an edited version of the summary shown in […]
It was a fine summer’s day when Sam and I waltzed onto the plane in top hats. Yes, actual top hats. On Ryanair. The cabin crew seem somewhat bewildered, but quite honestly I’m sure they’ve seen worse. The most common questions we got from fellow travellers were if we were lost magicians. Somewhat ironically, people […]
[This is the second of two articles on the relationship between happiness and money. The last covered whether money can buy happiness – we said ‘yes, with minor caveats’. This considers how to buy more happiness for your money.] Part of our frustration with the “can money buy happiness?” debate is that it obviously matters […]
People say ‘money can’t buy happiness’. Other people offer the reply that “the people who say ‘money can’t buy happiness’ just don’t know where to shop”. Our response is that money definitely can buy happiness. We think that’s so obvious it’s a boring question to ask. A better question is “how much happiness can money […]