You have taken cheery romantic young men and then ground them down with your high standards and domestic efficiency to create grumpy middle-aged monsters. Come on, hands up all those women who ...

We are grumpy, irritable and emotionally repressed, apparently. The latest pseudo-diagnosis being offered for this is “ miserable man syndrome ”, typified by the male propensity to pessimism.

Oasis songwriter Noel Gallagher has said he is “thrilled and honoured” as a “grumpy middle-aged man, who hates having his picture taken” to have his image added to the National Portrait ...