So female politicians don’t want to host HIGNFY? There’s a very good reason

The implication that women are too cowardly to host the quiz show is ridiculous – they’re busy in a ceaseless battle against trivialisation

Women – and female politicians in particular – won’t host Have I Got News for You because they are too modest; they are reticent, the show’s producers ask them again and again and the answer comes back no. At least that’s what Ian Hislop told the Radio Times. The undertone to all that talk is that women lack bravery. No need to dig into the gender essentials, just crunch the numbers: man after man, happy to give it a shot with the droll pauses and the deceptively hard-to-deliver scripted jokes, set against one solitary political female, Ann Widdecombe, a figure who will play the giddy goat with the same stoical, puzzled obedience of a boarding school pupil of yore, having ejected their lunch, ploughing through their own vomit.

Related: Women too modest to host Have I Got News For You, Hislop claims

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