Education, the media, and the quality of life

There was a time when I had fairly clear ideas on what constitutes the quality of life. But three years at the BBC, responsible not just to an academic community but to the whole of society, brings home to me how diverse are people's interpretations of that elusive concept. So much so that I felt tempted to make an Orwellian amendment to the title of this article, and write not about the quality of life but the quantity of it. For that is something that, as a biologist, I really know about.