Like many others, I’m making The Great Return to the office and I’m worried I’m about to lose “the sense of wellbeing I’ve often felt during these months of isolation”, says Jemima Kelly in the Financial Times. But UCL researchers say this is what I need: a range of experiences, even unpleasant ones, that can contribute to “psychological richness”. Since the time of Aristotle, the good life has been defined as a balance of “hedonic wellbeing” (fun, joy, good times) and “eudaemonic wellbeing” (purpose and a sense of contributing to your community). This new third way encourages the development of psychological richness by accumulating challenging experiences – in other words, the stresses and surprises of the office life.

On the face of it, Australia stabbed France in the back by deciding to ditch the 2016 submarine deal. But look closer and “you might find your sympathy for the French starting to melt away”, says Ian Lloyd Neubauer in Nikkei Asia. To stand up to China, Australia needs nuclear-powered subs that are able to stay submerged almost indefinitely, and the French diesel ones didn’t pass muster. On top of that, the French submarine team in Adelaide insisted on taking all of August as paid holiday, and were put out “by the Australians’ insistence on being on time for meetings”.