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Psychotherapist and life coach Sarie Taylor explores the “stress hangover”—the invisible physical and emotional toll that working mothers experience once the dust settles and life finally slows down.

Chef Peter Sidwell shares four big-flavour recipes from his latest cookbook: Sausage Traybake with Spiced Mango Chutney, Homemade Chicken Kebabs, Skirt Steak with Chimichurri, and a Chocolate & Orange Swiss Roll.

Celebrate Negroni Week at San Carlo! Discover the rich 1919 Florence origin of Italy’s iconic cocktail and explore three signature variations crafted by San Carlo mixologists.

From a family toiletries business to landing in 268 Sainsbury’s stores nationwide, Manchester sisters Amy Lister and Sally Wordsworth share how resilience, skin-kind ingredients, and the Gruffalo helped Good Bubble reach supermarket shelves.

Dr Carolyne Keenan explores how online manosphere narratives impact young men and explains why positive male role models are essential for shaping a healthy, grounded vision of masculinity

From day-one flexible working requests to dismantling outdated “daddy daycare” tropes, the UK workplace landscape is shifting. Discover what the new legislation means for working fathers, co-parenting equality, and your career.

School Holiday Jigsaw: Surviving the Summer Holidays as a Working Parent

For school children, the six-week break is a magical expanse of unstructured freedom. For working parents, it marks the beginning of a military-grade logistical operation. Between the skyrocketing costs of summer camps, tag-teaming annual leave with partners, and attempting the ultimate high-wire act of working from home with a laptop on your knee, the math of July and August simply doesn’t add up. We dive deep into the reality of trying to fit a 19th-century agricultural school calendar into a 21st-century digital economy—and explore the progressive workplace shifts needed to save our sanity.

The Cognitive Crutch: Are We Outsourcing Our Children’s Brains to AI?

Generative AI has transitioned from a novel tech trend to a permanent classroom fixture. But as tools like ChatGPT effortlessly handle the heavy cognitive lifting of writing essays and solving equations, educators and neuroscientists are raising an urgent alarm. True learning is rooted in the cognitive friction of arriving at an answer. By outsourcing that struggle to machines, are we causing intellectual stamina to atrophy, leaving behind a generation of brilliant curators who have lost the ability to think independently? From primary schools to university campuses, the data reveals a stark shift from active learning to passive “cognitive offloading.”

A powerful new World Cup campaign introduces “xV” (Expected Violence) to expose a chilling reality: research shows domestic abuse incidents spike by 38% when England loses and 26% even when they win. Backed by survivors, sports figures, and celebrities like Mel B, the campaign demands that this hidden statistic receives the same urgent attention as modern football data.

The UK government has announced a landmark social media ban for children under 16. From affected apps to enforcement timelines, here is what the “Australia Plus” model means for busy working parents and family life.