Ann Widdecombe
Ann Noreen Widdecombe DSG is a British politician, author and television personality. She was Member of Parliament for Maidstone and The Weald, and the former Maidstone constituency, from 1987 to 2010 and Member of the European Parliament for South West England from 2019 to 2020.
Unsung heroes
Those who stand outside abortion clinics offer help as well as prayers, but buffer zones cut off that lifeline
Most Read
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Vote Green to end antisemitism
Critics have been trying to twist their leaders’ words to resemble what they actually said
Ditching ancient traditions is not progress
Uniforms, oaths, titles, offices are the joints that hold together the structures of the state
Two faces of America
Copland: 3rd symphony, Walker 5th (LSO Live)
Killing with kindness
The MoD’s drive for a net zero military is an ideological folly that risks national security
The excesses of intellectual illiberalism
Justified dissatisfaction with liberal modernity has curdled into something alarmist and authoritarian
Symphonies have life
John McCabe: 2 symphonies and cello concerto (Signum Classics)
Paean to a green and pleasant land
The finest living example of that perennial English type, the countryman-writer
Unionists should unite
It’s time to build alliances to ensure that unionists are not let down again
