Editors' picks
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Us v the kids
Put a lock on your bedroom door. Never let a child interrupt. Kiss your partner first. A new book argues that parents need to childproof their relationships, or lose them. Sam Leith gets some expert survival advice
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Cakes and ale
A dash of booze makes a late summer pudding irresistible, writes Yotam Ottolenghi – such as baked chocolate truffle with pernod figs … -
How Mumsnet is leading the way
Many women have been turned on to feminist ideas by Mumsnet. Is this the real 'fourth wave of feminism', asks Jane Martinson -
Was Uncle Hanns a Nazi hunter?
Thomas Harding: Could a German Jew really have been a war crimes investigator for the British, responsible for tracking down the commandant of Auschwitz? -
The cat that gave a boy his voice back
Eight-year-old Lorcan Dillon has selective mutism, a condition that makes it hard for him to talk. But a new pet proved a turning point, his mother tells Nick McGrath
