John Prescott

                   

The world stops to watch as drama unfolds in America

independent.co.uk
04-Nov-2008
        

As the polls began closing across America, the world waited. Champagne was put on ice, pots of coffee were brewed, alarm clocks set. Tea-supping tribesmen in the Kashmiri foothills joined shisha-smoking Iraqis, east African...

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Janet Street-Porter: Two dinosaurs, two outdated world-views

independent.co.uk
05-Nov-2008 93 related
        

Like quite a few people, I can't stomach Jeremy Clarkson. He makes my flesh creep. But there's an easy way not to let him ruin my day – I don't buy the newspaper he writes for and when his name graces a television programme, I...

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TV ratings - October 3: Spooks stay a step ahead of Taggart

guardian.co.uk
04-Nov-2008 1 related
        

TV ratings: Spooks stay a step ahead of Taggart Spooks: the BBC spy drama pipped ITV's Taggart with 22% of the audience to the detective's 20%. Photograph: BBC BBC1 spy drama Spooks narrowly had the better of ITV1's Taggart...

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TV Review: Prescott: The Class System And Me, BBC Two, Monday, 3 November, 9pm

tvscoop.tv
04-Nov-2008
        

Jodie Marsh is irritating isn't she? She featured heavily on Prescott: The Class System And Me (BBC Two, Monday, 3 November, 9pm) and confirmed everything I ever thought of her: She has a brain but we seldom see it. Sadly for...

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Patrick Barkham: How John Prescott helped one young teenager to turn her life around

guardian.co.uk
04-Nov-2008 2 related
        

John Prescott saved my life has a funny ring to it. And he didn't exactly rescue Josie Hall, but when a television company found the 17-year-old on Facebook and drove the former deputy prime minister to her home in south-east...

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Pandora: The real reason Jenkins confessed

independent.co.uk
04-Nov-2008
        

Katherine Jenkins's decision to pick up the phone to Piers Morgan and spew forth about her wild past has sent the Fleet Street rumour mill into overdrive. The dainty English rose graces the cover of December's Vanity Fair,...

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Table talk: Sam Bompas and Harry Parr, architectural foodsmiths and jellymongers

guardian.co.uk
04-Nov-2008
        

Bompas and Parr: 'Everyone should eat more and just enjoy themselves'. Illustrations: Emma Rios Name your three desert island must-have ingredients Harry Parr: Leaf gelatine, so that we could turn anything on the island into...

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Last Night's Television - My Family at War, BBC1; Prescott: the Class System and Me, BBC2; The...

independent.co.uk
04-Nov-2008
        

Let's start by giving the BBC some good press. My Family at War is a corker of a series in which various well-known people, not including Jonathan Ross or Russell Brand, find out what happened to their relatives during the...

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The Big Question: Has the divide between Britain's social classes really narrowed?

independent.co.uk
04-Nov-2008
        

Why are we asking this now? The Government published a document yesterday which made the startling claim that, after a long period of social stagnation, British society has become socially mobile again. For 30 years, according...

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The lesson John Prescott failed to learn

timesonline.co.uk
03-Nov-2008 3 related
        

An invitation to take part in the BBC series Prescott: The Class System and Me seemed too good an opportunity to miss. I thought it was about time that Mr Prescott, the old class warrior who regularly attacks independent...

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