Tory MP Louise Mensch discusses women in politics, Twitter, the Occupy movement and her role on the Commons select committee on culture, media and sport
Dot Rotten is known for a wide selection of musical influences and this year he's tipped to break into the mainstream. Tom Happold caught up with him to discuss his plans for 2012
Our latest tip is the Staves, a band of three sisters who have been singing together all their lives. Guardian and Observer critics are predicting great things for the group in 2012, and here Michael Hann talks to them about growing up, their parents' influence and working with producers Glyn and Ethan Johns
Our critics have met the acts they're tipping for success next year, and here Kitty Empire gets to hang out with Fred MacPherson and Danny Blandy from Spector. They talk about the association with Phil Spector, writing love songs and their new album
This week Andrew Collins has been admiring the honesty of Strictly Come Dancing; the sincerity of Michael Buble Home For Christmas and the warm, fuzzy, nostalgic, unencumbered sarcasm of Little Crackers
Emmy the Great returns to the Guardian's studios, together with Tim Wheeler. They explain how appalling weather and a series of travel mishaps inspired the making of their new Christmas album and play an acoustic version of the single Home for the Holidays
James Richardson is back to make sense of the continental reaction to another momentous week in the Champions League as both Manchester clubs are dumped out and Napoli surge on