There are often stories in the media of celebrities – and indeed, ordinary people like you and me – being abused on social media by so-called ‘trolls’. An Internet troll is someone who comes into a discussion and posts comments designed to upset or disrupt the conversation.

For many weeks now, the plight of refugees has been headline news. Radio phone-ins have talked about immigration and the newspapers and topical daytime shows have been full of images of stricken individuals and families, whilst ‘experts’ and politicians talk about what should – and can’t - be done. It’s a tragic situation that the vast majority of people feel needs addressing by the powers that be, sooner rather than later. But yesterday, when images of 3 year old Syrian refugee, Aylan Kurdi, washed up on a beach in Turkey, appeared in the news and all across social media, something changed.

Once you’ve been out in the real world of work for a while, you’re sure to have worked in a few teams of varying functionality. Some will be super-high performing, well-oiled teams, and others will be more like a dysfunctional family with members not seeing eye-to-eye and generally causing chaos wherever they’re involved in a project. Obviously it’s far nicer, and much more fulfilling, to work in the high-performing team but why are some teams better gelled and harmonious than others?

Sitting reading an article in June’s Stylist Magazine with the title “The Happiness Myth; is our endless quest for contentment actually making us feel worse?” is an ironically depressing experience. A title like this demonstrates the problem with happiness in our (especially British) society right now. It’s not cool to try and be happy, and you’ll never get there anyway – so what’s the point?