Florence has moved on since Sarah Sands last visited - this time it was a hotel created out of two palaces that proved the highlight
Read full article...A shadow minister was describing to me over coffee recently the nature of the "depressing" atmosphere at the House of Commons
Interview: The Conservative firefighter, the Shadow Culture Minister, Ed Vaizey talks to Sarah Sands
In a spine-stiffening newspaper column, Boris Johnson reminds us why we are in Afghanistan. Have we forgotten 9/11, or our duty to our American allies?
A newspaper columnist and mentor of mine always gave short thrift to critics who asked how he would like to be on the receiving end of ill-informed opinion and knockabout abuse
Rather like women's football, the "female Davos" women's economic forum in Deauville has gone widely unnoticed
A group of boys is lined up on the pavement in the rain opposite my house looking at my parked scooter
A photograph in the Daily Mail of George Osborne appears next to one of Piers Morgan, inviting readers to spot the likeness
Coinciding with the Labour Party conference is the publication of Robert Harris’s Roman thriller Lustrum, which is dedicated to his friend Peter Mandelson. The blurb on the book jacket says: “Blinded by Ambition. Seduced by Power”. Or as Mandelson prefers to describe himself these days, “a rounded and relaxed person”
The conventional wisdom on London fashion is that it is creative and energetic, ie mad and unwearable
It is always said that women have to worry about what they wear and men do not. Yet women are making decisions based on aesthetics whereas for men they touch a fundamental sense of identity
The wisdom of the late Keith Waterhouse was bountiful but his phrase that most inspired me was "always look up"
Why was nothing was learned from the Enron morality tale?
Louise Patten has held down high-powered City jobs, a successful marriage and now a hobby writing thrillers. All thanks to self-belief and careful time management
A harder-headed strategy is required in Afghanistan, according to shadow defence secretary Liam Fox, along with more help from European countries such as Germany, Spain and Italy
The man who briefs Obama's team has a new mission: to clean up British politics. Will Parliament prove even more dangerous for Rory Stewart than Kabul or Iraq?
Judging the Samuel Johnson Prize began as an over-enthusiastic book club - each of us had 40 books to read in three months - and ended in personal transformation
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