Ann Widdecombe
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A plan to make divorce more streamlined will not encourage couples to split – it merely reflects the reality of our changing family patterns
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The last-ever episode of Mad Men brought Don back to himself, while two promising new dramas helped fill the void
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The appearance of Ann Widdecombe working in Victorian conditions makes for frustrating and pointless watching, and is not redeemed by the ex-politico famemonger’s ironic push for workers’ rights in this week’s episode
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King or queen for a day If I were queen for a day I’d enforce an hour’s silence on everyone
Ann WiddecombeAnn Widdecombe: In Widdecombe’s kingdom the ubiquity of caterwauling noise would be brought to a halt. Only birds would sing -
Fewer than one in four MPs is a woman. Chloe Smith, Margaret Hodge, Rushanara Ali and Caroline Lucas explain what it means to be a woman in the House of Commons
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British Politician
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In an extract from Ann Widdecombe's first detective novel, a professional dancer finds herself partnered with an arrogant politician determined to win at any cost
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The former MP's first detective novel spins off from a Strictly Come Dancing-esque TV show called Lively Toes
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Ann Widdecombe: Millions of animals undergo secret scientific experiments, and a promised new era of openness and transparency is under threat
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Terry Eagleton raises an eyebrow at reflections on Lent from 'one of the country's moralists-in-chief'
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Critics have traditionally been lowest on the literary food chain – until they created the Hatchet Job award, writes Nick Lezard
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With Christmas approaching, it's time for John Harris to sort out the winners and losers in the battle for the year's best celeb autobiography
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The Edinburgh international book festival welcomes writers from all over the world. We've been asking writers such as Alasdair Gray, Neil Gaiman and Ruby Wax to come up with their favourite words and filming the results. Here you can watch the words they have chosen from 'a-whoring' to 'Zulu'
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We're compiling an Edinburgh book festival dictionary of authors' favourite words. Tell us yours, and we'll add it to the list
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David Marsh: It helps if you've been on Strictly Come Dancing, but anyone who has been in the public eye for more than about two minutes is eligible
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Life and work of Iain Banks to be honoured at 30th festival, with Salman Rushdie, Margaret Atwood and Neil Gaiman also featuring in two-week event partnered by the Guardian
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Box office records are tumbling. Top dames are booked years ahead, and Aladdin starring Lily Savage just opened at the vast O2. Booooooo to austerity, say the stars of pantomime
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Suspended MP's foray into TV reality show follows spate of earlier storms over abortion, blogs and Tory leader snubs
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Media Monkey: Conservative MP risks becoming a figure of fun if she appears on I'm a Celebrity … says former Tory party stalwart
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As Ann Widdecombe and Lord Carey address a conference fringe rally against same-sex marriage, Michael White hears the views of Tory delegates
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Ann Widdecombe learned little from a night out on the town, while AL Kennedy plumbed the depths of despair indoors, writes Miranda Sawyer
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Ann Widdecombe was the wrong person for a drunken night with young women – but Sally Avens' Twelfth Night got the drinking and everything else brilliantly right
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Davis wonderfully sustains the oppressive atmosphere, so that when the powers of darkness are defeated, we feel we are in a better world, writes Tim Ashley
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Ann Widdecombe's skills as a stage performer are nonexistent; she doesn't fall into the orchestra pit – but it's an embarrassment at any level, writes George Hall
Topics
- Conservatives
- Television
- Autobiography and memoir
- BBC
- Biography
- Hatchet Job of the Year award
- John le Carré
- Conservative conference 2012
- Marriage
- Reality TV
- Morrissey
- Conservative conference
- Ian Rankin
- Fiction
- Edinburgh international book festival
- Eleanor Catton
- Paul Theroux
- Opera
- Classical music
- I'm a Celebrity ...
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