Who needs a partner when you can have a cat? Having a pet is a particular kind of joy, and there is lots of debate as to which kind of pet is best. Personally, I am team cat all the way. There is nothing else quite like the kind of joy that seeing your little […]

4 months ago

Hard to argue with! Merseyside has been crowned the funniest region in the whole of the UK. Boasting the likes of John Bishop, Ken Dodd, Ricky Tomlinson and Peter Serafinowicz as its finest comic exports, this land of the Scouse officially produces the highest amount of comedians per capita according to digital marketing agency Dark […]

7 months ago

What’s everyone else so bloody happy about? Misery is what the British population specialises in, apparently. In its latest Mental Health Quotient survey, Sapien Labs analysed 419,000 participants across 71 countries and found that only the Central Asian republic of Uzbekistan ranks as more fed-up than the UK. This research, which should be taken with […]

7 months ago

Well, would you look at that… Women sleep better next to a dog than with a man, claims a new study. Swap the snoring for paw-sitive vibes as Professor Dr Christy L Hoffman in the Animal Behavior, Ecology, and Conservation department at Canisius College in Buffalo, New York, and a team of researchers explored the […]

8 months ago

The revolution will be televised A study has revealed the top 40 jobs which are most at risk of being taken over by AI, and it certainly looks bleak! For many, AI represents the next leap forward in human civilisation, adjacent with the likes of the dawn of flight, the internet and other technological revolutions. […]

8 months ago

A study has found that second-born children tend to be more rebellious than the oldest child. I don’t know if this is true for all families but it’s definitely true with my crew. As a mother of two, I can verify that my second-born is much more of a handful than my eldest. I’m already […]

1 year ago