Bruton is lauded as the food capital of the West Country — but do its hotel restaurants live up to the hype? Our columnist sets out on a gastronomic marathon to find out

September makes serious demands of your Best life columnist, what with book launches, birthdays and the birth of Mona Leda, daughter of my darling niece Lara (which means Boris beats me to grandparenthood and bumps our father, Stanley – who is off-grid in Tibet researching his 30th book – up to great-grandfather). Significant launches included

The Telegraph’s agony aunt unpacks whether couples must endure watching endless atrocities unfold together – or change the channel

My life of non-stop glamour and sizzle continues. Over breakfast in our Notting Hill ‘country kitchen’ I noticed the large cardboard box lying out by the bins. This is not unusual. Since Covid/WFH, deliveries are more frequent than drone strikes in the Donbas. ‘Bound to be for you,’ said Ivo. ‘Actually, could be your birthday

The Telegraph’s agony aunt examines why a reader repeatedly loses interest in his partners – and what could be behind the pattern

Experience timeless aristocratic elegance at the five-star Grand Hotel Villa Serbelloni on the shores of Lake Como.

‘We had a terrible row just before you all arrived,’ I was saying in a stage whisper over breakfast on Sunday morning, fortified by an iron skillet of bacon and eggs sizzled on the Aga. We’d reached the toast and second round of coffee stage, and the reason I was whispering was my husband Ivo

Camilla Tominey and Rachel Johnson are joined by Hannah Furness and Sherelle Jacobs

Camilla and Rachel discuss the PM’s statecraft and whether he is focused on the right issues

Camilla Tominey and Rachel Johnson are joined by Prince Harry’s biographer Angela Levin

This is not happening, I thought, as I jabbed at my phone to magic up a hybrid to convey me noiselessly to a central London studio. But my Uber app had vanished and wouldn’t reinstall, and was then ‘locked’. Meanwhile, no black cabs were plying their licensed trade on Upper Tooting Road, where I was

Gloucester Services, on the M5, proves the perfect gourmet gateway to a luxurious Cotswolds hotel with a somewhat hit-and-miss restaurant

Lake Como It doesn’t take long for me to fall in love. A young Adonis with a six-pack bounced on a trampoline, his dark curls flapping like spaniels’ ears. Waiters flitted about with drinks. Ridiculously attractive couples, all with perfect bodies, lounged on the beach in front of us, rosé on ice to hand. We’d

The Telegraph’s agony aunt reassures a worried mother whose daughter insists on having a child with an Elon Musk-esque character

A fear of organised groups, heights, horses and camping didn’t stop our writer saying ‘yes’ when invited to ride across the Celestial Mountains led by Alexandra Tolstoy

My youngest son, Oliver, has asked me to make a speech at his wedding. I am very flattered even to be invited as, given the Beckham family meltdown over the Brooklyn nuptials, you can’t take anything for granted these days. I’ve undertaken not to wear a slip dress of my own design, or dance ‘on’

This week’s Difficult Woman, Anne Jenkin, sits in the Lords as Baroness Jenkin of Kennington. Anne has packed several lifetimes into politics, particularly the cause of women’s representation, having, co-founded the Women2Win group, with former Prime…

Charleston in South Carolina has buzzy, destination restaurants, fascinating museums and a genteel air

This week Rachel is joined by Tulip Siddiq, and what a whirlwind of a conversation it is. Tulip has been the Labour MP for Hampstead and Highgate, previously Hampstead and Kilburn, since 2015. Not unacquainted with scandal, she is the niece of former…

Ann Widdecombe, who has died at the age of 78, was the nation’s maiden aunt, almost its Joan of Arc figure