If you're tired of reading negative stories of doom and gloom during your lunch break you may enjoy browsing through the optimist's website instead.

By offering small UK charities free advertising space, featuring a load of optimistic celebrities and inviting companies to brag about their csr policies, the site editors will have to work hard at ensuring that some actual news shines through all the back-slapping bonhomie. 

Yet I would still prefer to read good news than about death, pestilence and war over my desk-bound sandwich any day!