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While cash might not be as popular as it once was, the opportunity to fashion the next series of banknotes has got brains whirring and tails wagging.

The psychological lift a wagging tail gives to a dressing room is also huge.

Tails were wagging and most of the dogs had that expression that looks like a smile, mouth half-open, tongue dangling.

You may have seen it: Last Sunday, French President Emmanuel Macron’s wife, Brigitte, got tongues wagging when she did something that seemed entirely out of character for the painfully elegant first lady.

You come to hate their enviable ease, the pink zinc cream slashed across their noses, their wagging tongues and middle fingers.