9 h. ago Why stopping HRT has changed my life in the most radical way possible. I know it runs counter to all medical advice... but if you're taking it, hear me out: SARAH VINE

All my life I cared what people thought of me. As a teenager I cared that my feet were too big to be a ballerina and that I wasn't blonde like all the pretty girls.

Politics

25 h. ago Nicola Sturgeon and Irvine Welsh join Edinburgh Book Festival line

The former first minister is preparing to launch a mammoth promotional tour ahead of the publication of her long-awaited political memoir.

Culture

25 h. ago How Not to Be a Political Wife by Sarah Vine review – a bitter memoir of power and betrayal

She was Michael Gove’s wife and Samantha Cameron’s best friend. But then Brexit happenedPolitics is awful.If you want the digested read of Sarah Vine’s memoir on life as a Westminster WAG, that’s it: politics, she writes, is a hateful business that ruined her marriage to Michael Gove, her health and happiness. (Don’t ask what the Cameron years did to anyone else: this book is absolutely not about anyone else.) But like many a passionate hatred, this one started out as love. Continue reading...

Politics

42 h. ago Tory WAG Sasha Swire's attack on Sarah Vine is vindictive nonsense. Why didn't she write about the mink

War broke out among the WAGs of Westminster when a woman called Sasha Swire - most readers have never heard of her, I know - launched a petty and vindictive attack on Sarah Vine's new book.

Events

5 d. ago David Beckham to finally get knighthood as King Charles forgives explosive leaked emails

The former England captain is finally set to become a Sir after years of waiting for the honour

Events

5 d. ago David Beckham's sweary leaked emails in full as he finally gets knighthood

David Beckham has finally been awarded a prestigious honour from King Charles in his upcoming Birthday Honours list next week, which will see him become a Sir

Politics

6 d. ago A Different Kind of Power by Jacinda Ardern review – not your usual PM

New Zealand’s former prime minister is a refreshingly informal narrator of her remarkable rise and fallJacinda Ardern was the future, once. New Zealand’s prime minister captured the world’s imagination with her empathetic leadership, her desire to prioritise the nation’s happiness rather than just its GDP, and her bold but deeply human approach to the early stages of the pandemic (though her “zero Covid” strategy of sealing borders to keep death rates low came back to bite her). She governed differently, resigned differently – famously saying in 2023 that she just didn’t have “enough in the tank” to fight another election – and has now written a strikingly different kind of political memoir. It opens with her sitting on the toilet clutching a pregnancy test at the height of negotiations over forming a coalition government, wondering how to tell the nation that their probable new prime minister will need maternity leave.Ardern is a disarmingly likable, warm and funny narrator, a...

Politics

7 d. ago My father told me that I was a hopeless disappointment. He's the reason my battle with my weight has been such an endless source of self

How. The. Hell. Did. I. Get. Here? This was how I felt from the minute my husband Michael went into politics to the minute when I reluctantly left him - and politics - behind.

Events

7 d. ago Cardiff Council admits responsibility for data breach that led to parents' email addresses being leaked

The data breach, which was caused by a human error, led to parents' email addresses being leaked

Politics

8 d. ago 'You're a danger to your children': Shocking comment a doctor made to SARAH VINE after the trials of motherhood and marriage left her balding, struggling to shift the baby weight and full of self

I fell for Michael Gove's modesty, the fact that his physical bumbling was in such contrast to his razor-sharp brain and his wit: there is no funnier person in the room.

Society

8 d. ago Leaked emails and fallouts with the Camerons: the biggest revelations from Sarah Vine's new political memoir

Run-ins with Jeremy Clarkson, partying in Ibiza and death threats in the post — Sarah Vine’s new memoir is full of new details about life on the frontline of politics

Politics

1 week ago This is the shocking truth about my very public fallout with Samantha Cameron

Quite simply, I had never seen Samantha Cameron like that. So angry, so embittered, so full of vitriol. Yelling at me.

Events

1 week ago Rampage killings have become commonplace and drugs like cannabis are to blame

Hitchens compared the light policing of cannabis in the West to countries like South Korea, Japan, and China, making the point that Asia sees very few of these rampage-style killings.

Events

2 w. ago Leaked Liverpool FC email shows reason for internal events postponement after parade car crash

The Merseyside club have suspended a number of internal events to mark their Premier League title win after a car drove into supporters during Monday's victory parade

Events

2 w. ago Liverpool postpone further title celebrations in leaked email after parade car crash

Liverpool Football Club have reportedly postponed several internal staff celebrations for the Premier League title after a car crashed into fans during their parade

Events

2 w. ago SARAH VINE: The Kardashians' mum hasn't just turned back the clock

The Kardashian clan, who like it or not have dominated celebrity news for two decades, are no strangers to the surgeon's knife.

Politics

3 w. ago SARAH VINE: Brexit cost me my friends, my sanity and my marriage. Now the unelected elite have delivered a final insult to all of us who voted to Leave

The Eagles' 1976 hit Hotel California encapsulates the current situation of Brexit. You can say your goodbyes, pack your bags, pay your bill - but there's no escaping the tendrils of the EU.

Politics

3 w. ago SARAH VINE: The rules on assisted dying and abortion aren't perfect. But no one has come up with anything better

Death is a live topic in Westminster. We have Kim Leadbeater's ill thought-out and chaotic Assisted Dying Bill and Stella Creasy's newest attempt to reform abortion laws.

Events

4 w. ago SARAH VINE: I have tried all the weight loss jabs from Ozempic to Wegovy to Mounjaro... and THIS is the one that's easily the best

Every age has its great rivalries: Rome vs Carthage, Mozart vs Salieri, Shakespeare vs Marlowe, the Rolling Stones vs The Beatles.

Politics