DIGITAL DADDY

Even in his single days, Mike wouldn’t buy so much as a clock radio without consulting his subscription to Which? Online and cross-referencing it with reviews, technical specifications and specialist hi-fi magazines. His approach to child-rearing has been completely in keeping: a child is a technical problem to which an optimal solution exists. You simply have to invest in the appropriate gadgets and bone up on the manual. When his record-producer wife Kirsty went into labour, Mike was right there — timing her contractions with the dedicated iPhone app. He had been faintly disappointed when they experienced no difficulty in conceiving, thus forcing him to delete his online ovulation calculator. There’s a photograph of him leaving the hospital with the newborn held