Lost in your 30s

Suffering from app fatigue or could just do with a few dating new-to-knows? Olivia Petter presents our thoroughly modern guide to finding the one

Novelist Amanda Smyth and her partner were aligned on never wanting children, until, at 40, she felt a deep and non-negotiable desire to reverse that decision. She explains how she navigated the path that took her in a new direction

It’s a funny old world

Are you sitting comfortably? Good. Now, cast your mind back to the last time you had fun. No, not the stylised, curated-for-cachet, posted-to-socials-before-it’s-over kind, but the spontaneous, all-en

As I push my pram, my baby sleeping, it takes me a moment to realise that someone is talking to me. Another mum, on the way to the same baby class, is asking how I am, and I stammer as I push my phone

The UK’s birth rate is at its lowest ever – and that’s not just bad news for those who long to be grandparents. It could spell trouble for the nation’s future too