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[People] felt good even though they didn't really know much about [Barack Obama] and may have had some doubts.

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

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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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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.

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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.

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

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