My dad was far from perfect – but I live by the advice he gave me on his deathbed (opens in new tab)

It’s been 14 years since he passed, but I can feel his blood coursing through my veins whenever I realise the small ways I am just like him This sounds like an old-fashioned, “take my mother-in-law” type joke, but is the antithesis of funny: one in five British people would swap their dad for a better model. This is according to ahead of – you guessed it – Father’s Day in the UK, which also revealed that one in three pretend they have a better relationship with their dad than they really do. ...