Dr Lisa Cunningham said that verbal assaults were now so commonplace that they were “water off a duck’s back”

Bill Clinton; Marty Whelan; and Great British Bake Off host, Sue Perkins, have all spoken eloquently bout the pain that the death of a family dog causes. Caroline Allen talks to an Irish dog owner who took two weeks off work when her dog was near death and another who cancelled Christmas when her two dogs died.

SOCIETY is in awe of mothers who work. Ever since the Welsh journalist and author Alison Pearson penned her novel How Does She Do It, we’ve watched, entranced, as an increasing band of Mumpreneurs reach for the glass ceiling. And the more children she has, the more we admire her.