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.

I admired everything about Dame Jenni Murray, from that wonderful voice to that gimlet stare of hers - and above all the way she approached her craft with an open mind and an honest heart.

The death of two serving police officers, after their patrol car collided with a stolen VW Passat driving the wrong way on the A66, places two very different worlds into stark contrast.

Backin the good old days before Megxit, the Sussexes and the Waleses were dubbed the 'Fab Four'. Fresh, good-looking, in tune with the younger generation.

You've got to hand it to the Sussexes: they know how to make a splash. The bombshell news that Prince Harry and his family are swapping California for rainy Britain quite knocked me off my perch.

After weeks of broiling hot days and sweltering nights, I long for the return of cosy evenings.

Make no mistake, the death of Professor Jason Arday is an absolute tragedy. It doesn't matter how much he embellished his CV or exaggerated his achievements - he didn't deserve to die.

Modern life seems a slow but inevitable process of medicalisation. The latest of these is fat jabs or GLP-1s, which have been hailed as the cure for one of the modern world's biggest ills: obesity.