Some Airbnb hosts are spying on guests with hidden cameras, a doctor  prescribes Fortnite ban, cats do recognise their names, but they prefer to ignore you, Europe want to ban vegan companies from using words such as ‘burger’ and ‘milk’, and a sociologist at Yale has analysed how long a friendship will generally last, and while some friendships last a lifetime, the average length is ten years.

Alexandra Tselios, publisher and author of The Big Smoke, tells you all about it.