“When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.” That perennial funeral favourite, 1 Corinthians 13, has a lot to answer for. Generations of so-called grown-ups have, whether through the fear of God or the fear of embarrassment, done all they can to distance themselves from anything that they fear the neighbours or the man upstairs will think is childish.

If you don’t like painting Warhammer figurines or building Lego or collecting Funko models, nobody’s making you

Now, only two thousand years later, the tide seems to be turning. No less grown-up an outlet that the Financial Times reports that a great boom is underway in the so-called “kidult market”. Toy companies are actively chasing the over

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