Neal Freiman

I'm Neil Freiman.

And I'm Toby Howell.

Today, why are English-speaking countries so unhappy?

Good morning, happy Friday, and welcome to the first day of spring.

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Well, unless you're on an aircraft carrier trying to stay out of sight.

Yesterday, Le Monde reported that a French naval officer exposed the location of the Charles de Gaulle when he logged a 36-minute workout on Strava, alerting the public of the ship's whereabouts in the Mediterranean.

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The World's Happiness Report, released yesterday for 2026, delivered an unhappy verdict around social media.

Too much scrolling time appears to be taking a sledgehammer to young people's well-being in English-speaking countries and in Western Europe.

The happiness report, conducted each year by Oxford's Wellbeing Centre, Gallup, and the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network, said that among under-25s in English-speaking and Western European countries, life evaluation scores have dropped by almost one point over the last decade on a scale of 1 to 10.

They also found that teenage girls are most at risk from social media fueled unhappiness.

15-year-old girls who use social media for five hours or more a day reported a drop in life satisfaction compared to those who use it less.