‘I had been the perfect wife and mother – so why did my husband walk out?’
Like many people before internet dating, I met my husband in the office. We fell in love when I was 21, and by the time I was…
The best mince pies for Christmas 2021, tried and tested
More than any other Christmas category, mince pies have become a blank canvas for creative producers. Salted caramel, apples, frangipane and gin – no flavour twist is…
Help! I’m Team Boris, married to Team Jenny
“WHAT do you mean you’ve invited a few people round? Who are these people?” my spouse demands. “Friends. Our friends,” I reply. “How many?” he challenges. “Five,”…
Why do Left-wing parties keep plumping for hopeless candidates?
Recent polling of Republican voters in the US, according to the Five Thirty-Eight Politics podcast, suggests that between 60 and 80 per cent want former president Donald…
Throwing money at GPs won’t make them any more productive
Labour’s Nye Bevan came up with a brutally effective method to deal with doctors who opposed the setting up of the NHS in 1948, famously declaring: “I stuffed…
The EU’s plot to ban ‘ladies and gentlemen’ was pure wickedness
As the Swinging Sixties began, Lonnie Donegan enjoyed four weeks at number one in the hit parade with My Old Man’s a Dustman. Today it would have…
Christmas may be at risk, but things could be worse – just look at the EU
I’m not one of those awful people who loves to go around saying: “I told you so”. Admittedly, the main reason for this is that I can’t,…
Donald Trump now senses his opportunity to win back the White House
I’m back at Mar-a-Lago in West Palm Beach, Florida. This is home to many of America’s richest and most famous citizens, but the best known of all…
Nothing tugs on the heart like the lost tastes of childhood
It’s a curious fact that, however long you live, no meal will be as delectable as the food your parents prepared for you in childhood. For that…
Greater transparency can aide our intelligence services
Until relatively recently, the very existence of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) was not officially acknowledged. In recent years, as with its sister agency, MI5, greater transparency…
Keir Starmer gives his best rendition of a Commons greatest hit – ‘Last Christmas’
The BBC’s Christmas Day TV lineup was out – and it was…. identical to Christmas 2020. EastEnders, Call the Midwife and (horror of horrors) Mrs Brown’s Boys…
‘Boris is failing to tame the Blob’: Sherelle Jacobs responds to readers on omicron restrictions
In my column on Monday, I argued that the incompetence of the Whitehall Blob is threatening to push Britain back into lockdown. The Telegraph’s readers wasted no…
Being in Stephen Sondheim’s company left me a babbling mess
Twenty years ago, I was invited to the scariest party imaginable. It was in New York at the legendary Bemelmans Bar, an exquisite Fabergé egg of a…
Guilty or not guilty – will Ghislaine Maxwell end up paying a higher price for a man’s crime?
Ghislaine Maxwell, whose trial on sex trafficking charges began in Manhattan’s Federal Court House on Monday, exerts a poisonous and powerful fascination. We are appalled, although not…
Forget omicron. We should call it the Xi variant
The naming of Covid variants, like the naming of cats, is a difficult matter. If you’re the World Health Organisation, anyway. Apparently keen to avoid giving offence,…
45 of the best online fashion websites that offer home delivery for autumn winter 2021 shopping
Shop this effortlessly cool Scandi brand online and find affordable fashion across womenswear, kidswear, lingerie and cosmetics. With great picks across dresses, jumpsuits and knitwear in particular,…
Royal favourite The Vampire’s Wife launches homewares – plus the other new collections to know about
Fashionable home accessories have been going from strength to strength at Matches Fashion since it launched its homeware category three years ago, and the latest brand to…
Louis Vuitton showcases Virgil Abloh’s final collection in emotional tribute show
The clothes, when they came out, were themed around ‘coming of age’ and in the spectrum of saturated colours and exuberant ideas (floor-sweeping skirts, neoprene armour) that…
How to fake a good night’s sleep with skincare
It is a well known fact that getting a good night’s sleep is one of the best defences for overall health, but as it turns out the…
Why your favourite TV shows are now influencing your beauty buys
In her Trends Report for 2021, Alexia Inge, founder of Cult Beauty, writes about ‘beautytainment’, which rings true with the importance of the small screen – whether…
Meet Gabriela Hearst and the women transforming the fashion industry for the better
It helps that the clothes are terrific. Hearst’s elegant, grown-up designs have been worn by the Duchess of Cambridge, Duchess of Susssex, Jill Biden and Ivanka Trump….
Diane Von Furstenberg: ‘I always wanted to be the woman in charge’
It’s quite an achievement to have designed such an iconic, democratic item, but her proudest achievement is her family. “They’re interesting and happy and no one is…
Dressing up is back! 7 lessons from British fashion’s biggest night out
It was the night when pretty much all of fashion finally came out to play, and if the chill factor was fierce, so were the outfits. While…
Wednesday evening UK news briefing: EU must consider mandatory Covid vaccination, says Ursula von der Leyen
On the flip side, Israel has said that early research suggests two to three doses of a Covid vaccine are effective against the new omicron variant. Nitzan…
Michelin star chefs track down long-lost seeds to give their mother a taste of her childhood
Despite having pioneered pig trotter carpaccio and ice-cream flavoured with cigar smoke, when the Michelin-starred Roca brother chefs were asked by their ageing mother to recreate the…