SARAH VINE: We can’t let selfish idiots who don’t want free Covid vaccines hold us hostage 

When it comes to the coronavirus vaccine, it’s funny how many otherwise intelligent people I know have become borderline deranged about it. Endless paranoid WhatsApps and links to bonkers Facebook posts. ‘You won’t catch me putting that poison in my arm,’ they say. ‘I’m not stupid. I don’t want to be part of the evil … Read more

SARAH VINE: We can’t let selfish idiots who don’t want free Covid vaccines hold us hostage 

When it comes to the coronavirus vaccine, it’s funny how many otherwise intelligent people I know have become borderline deranged about it. Endless paranoid WhatsApps and links to bonkers Facebook posts. ‘You won’t catch me putting that poison in my arm,’ they say. ‘I’m not stupid. I don’t want to be part of the evil … Read more

Daily Mail’s haunting montage of just a fraction of Britain’s Covid victims, writes SARAH VINE 

However tricky the past few months have been, however much I’ve longed to see my family or spend time with friends, whatever difficulties my children may have encountered through missed schooling or isolation, one thing I shall be eternally grateful for is that no one I love appears in this picture. Not my parents, who … Read more

Daily Mail’s haunting montage of just a fraction of Britain’s Covid victims, writes SARAH VINE 

However tricky the past few months have been, however much I’ve longed to see my family or spend time with friends, whatever difficulties my children may have encountered through missed schooling or isolation, one thing I shall be eternally grateful for is that no one I love appears in this picture. Not my parents, who … Read more

SARAH VINE: Take it from me, having a difficult dad can be a gift

Adele’s estranged father, Mark Evans, has died at the age of 57 from bowel cancer. A one-time alcoholic, he spent the last few years of his life living modestly in Bridgend, Wales — a far cry from his daughter’s stellar existence. Theirs was a fractious relationship. He never made any bones about his failings, admitting … Read more

SARAH VINE: If you want to meet a real bigot, try talking to a liberal

We all know a bigot when we meet one, or at least we think we do. The reactionary old gent, set in his ways. The stubborn old woman, distrustful of everything and everyone ‘different’. But in recent years the face of bigotry has started to get a lot younger and, oddly, a lot more socially … Read more

SARAH VINE: If you want to meet a real bigot, try talking to a liberal

We all know a bigot when we meet one, or at least we think we do. The reactionary old gent, set in his ways. The stubborn old woman, distrustful of everything and everyone ‘different’. But in recent years the face of bigotry has started to get a lot younger and, oddly, a lot more socially … Read more