John Prescott

Hughes relieved to avoid defeat

Drawing with Hull City on a chilly afternoon on Humberside probably does not figure anywhere on the Abu Dhabi United Group's blueprint for world domination but then after three straight defeats in the league, this actually...

The CIA's coded humour is all in the name

Say what you like about the CIA, it gives good codename. The official Secret Service designation for Barack Obama is Renegade, a title that both captures the unique nature of his political achievement as the first...

Hull scrappers to beat the relegation odds? Don't roulette out

Works outings to a Scarborough casino which end in fisticuffs are not universally recognised as blueprints for team bonding. But Hull's brief taste of playing Premier League soft touches may have ended when Marlon King and Dean...

PETER MCKAY: A vampire feeding on our misery

Deceit and hypocrisy are common in politics, but for Labour to suggest Shadow Chancellor George Osborne might undermine the pound by criticising Gordon Brown suggests new depths of political depravity.

Alan Rusbridger reflects on the legacies of Hugo Young following the publication of the legendary...

On July 21 1997, Tony Blair, Hugo Young and I met for tea in the garden of Number 10. The prime minister was reasonably assiduous in talking things over with columnists and editors and on this day we chatted in the summer sun...

Obituary: David Parkes

Residential architect who was in at the start of Britain's sheltered housing programme David Parkes, who has died aged 77, was an architect whose unusual strengths were far from those of today's "starchitects". As a founder...

Teenager sets out to sail solo round the world

Published Date: 15 November 2008 A 16-YEAR-OLD is attempting to become the youngest person to sail solo around the world. Michael Perham, from Potters Bar, Hertfordshire, has one record already, after becoming the youngest...

We can be heroes ...

In different ways, three authors show the transition of journalism from a period of heroism to the age of the internet – an entrepreneurial time when everyone is a journalist, writes John Lloyd SuperMedia Can You Trust the...

Number teen Downing Street

SIMON COWELL – the most important man in the country. Who else can get a teenage dancer from Warrington an appointment with the second most important man in the country (GORDON BROWN) in a week when the PM has far more...

Mandy's fight with the wimmin

Kevin Maguire brings you all the gossip from the Westminster village Gearing up for June's Euro elections is Harriet Harman. Labour's deputy leader is, I hear, fond of convening 30-strong campaign sessions in the party's HQ. I...

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