An under-discussed aspect of the housing shortage is that it forces many young Londoners to move away from their parents, making it harder to raise children of their own, says Phoebe Arslanagic-Little

My husband and I knew that our baby would be much loved by our parents, but we have both been surprised by the extent to which our daughter, their first grandchild, is the sun in their solar system.

Nietzsche wrote that there is always some madness in love and I now know that to be true. Here is a list of claims that my father has repeatedly made about our five-month-old baby. She is highly observant and “misses nothing”; is “tough” and stoic about physical pain; “doesn’t suffer fools gladly”; has unusually good hearing; and, “never” cries without a good reason.

My father is not the only one whose love for his grandchild approaches delusion. My friend has an alabaster-complexioned, red-headed baby girl (ideal to play the infant Queen Elizabeth I in a historical drama), and his mother recently........

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