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Financial Times: Why life in the UK feels better than ever
9 May 2019
Since the referendum, self-reported British subjective wellbeing has stagnated, finds a study led by Georgios Kavetsos of Queen Mary University of London. Pro-Europeans are predictably upset, but even anti-Europeans saw an early rise in wellbeing melt away, perhaps because Brexit hasn't been delivered. Even so, British contentment remains about the highest ever measured. As usual, nostalgia is misplaced.