Sarah Vine

Have they replaced their creative team with ChatGPT? That is surely the only explanation for the woke, nonsensical and frankly insulting drivel that is this year's John Lewis Christmas advert.

When I think of Ireland, I think of poets, writers, actors, the chiselled features of Cillian Murphy or the dark romance of Yeats, of breathtaking landscapes and a silver-tongued people.

Watching the Budget speech yesterday, I couldn't quite work out who the Chancellor John Healey reminded me of.

Ever since Eyelashes Andy first brought the subject up in his casual sort of way, every midlife woman I know has been dutifully prepping for the Apocalypse.

It ought to have been a clear win for William. But, as ever, the Sussexes drove a horse and cart through it all with the bombshell news about the duchess's father, Thomas Markle Sr.

As I watched the scenes of wanton destruction in Paris and beyond unfold over the past few days, I couldn't help thinking: is the zombie apocalypse finally upon us?

How do you solve a problem like Meghan and Harry, asks SARAH VINE. One imagines this is a common, if not entirely welcome, conversation over the King's morning Burford Browns.

After years of being patronised for suggesting that Kemi Badenoch is a serious political contender, I now find myself being patronised by people telling me Badenoch is a serious political contender.

Getting back on the property ladder at 59 hasn't been easy for Sarah Vine. Yet after years of post-divorce rentals her shoebox-sized new home feels like a palace.

Even before the start of the Coalition government, Laura Trott had made a name for herself at the implementation unit, set up to prepare the Conservatives for power.

Are black Labradors a 'far-Right' breed? Does drinking fermented hops at room temperature make you a bigot? Are pubs - especially cosy countryside ones - inherently boorish?

Is it the point at which we can confidently say what day the bins go out? When our cars are finally free of crisp packets and greasy sandwich wrappers?

My mother always used to say (usually when my brother or I had done something idiotic) that if people thought about having children for more than five minutes, humans would swiftly die out.

What to make of the war of the Charleses? On the one hand, Charles the King. On the other, Charles Spencer, an aristocrat whose ancestry stretches back to James I.

My father died a few months ago, and as a family we are all still adjusting to life without him. For me there is sadness and a sense of regret: we had a complicated relationship.

Was there ever such a pair of quitters as the Duke and Duchess of Sussex?

Almost ten years ago, the #MeToo movement began with a post on Twitter (now X) by the American actress Alyssa Milano , sharing her experiences of sexual assault and asking other women to do the same.

'Surprised?' What do the Duke and Duchess of Sussex mean, exactly, by 'surprised'?

There are some things a healthy human mind simply cannot comprehend, and a mother who kills her children is one.

For all their faults, the last Conservative administration did at least have one core ambition: levelling up.