Within hours of the US Air Force strike against Iran 's nuclear plants, a message popped on to our family WhatsApp thread from the most rational, sane member of the clan.
Back in November, I wrote a column in this newspaper questioning the attitude and behaviour of Dr Dewi Evans, the chief expert witness in the trial of Lucy Letby.
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.
June 7 - this coming Saturday - is a poignant date in the life of the Dorries family. It's the day that everything changed. Nothing has been the same since, nor will it ever be again.
While many ordinary viewers struggled to afford the licence fee, Gary Lineker was gobbling up a £1.35million salary. While Stacey Solomon gets her 'special' treatment.
If Shakespeare's ghost resides in a garret somewhere above the new Globe theatre, I imagine his head will be down, his quill furiously scratching across parchment.
NADINE DORRIES: But in the past few months we've certainly seen more of them than ever before in the carefully curated snaps released by Meghan. And the cynic in me is wondering: why now?
NADINE DORRIES: Google Dr Ravi Jayaram and he pops up as a 'TV personality'. It's a moniker well earned having appeared on This Morning and The Weakest Link.
Have you heard of Gorpcore? No, neither had I until visitors from the North West told me about the latest 'fashion' trend in my old haunts of Prestbury and Alderley Edge in Cheshire.