Welcome though the news is of the ceasefire in Lebanon, it does nothing to settle the deep-rooted hostilities between Israel and its neighbours.

My Mum and Dad once attended a school parents’ evening in which a teacher decided that brevity was the better part of ...

SADLY, the world is full of starving people – and stuffed to the brim with ungrateful ones. The furore over the 40th ...

THE problem with the idea of “increased tourism” being a benefit to local Galloway communities can be addressed by the equally pressing ...

Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle led tributes to Lord Prescott, who died last week, calling him a ‘towering figure in the Labour ...

Speaking at the Confederation of British Industry ’s ( CBI) annual conference, the chancellor insisted she had “drawn a line ...

Rachel Reeves has damaged investment and, by extension, growth through the tax rises announced in the budget, the head of the ...

The last time I met John Prescott he said something very rude, and as it turned out, very accurate, about a senior civil ...

He couldn't have been more different to Tony Blair, yet John Prescott ended up being our longest serving deputy ...

John Prescott was a nice man and an underestimated wit. I once worked as a researcher on my late colleague Colin Brown’s ...

Previous British governments have insisted the matter was for the British Museum, where the marbles have pride of place and ...

Britain's former Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott, who was known among other things for his work on the Kyoto Protocol climate change agreement in 1997, has died in a care home, aged 86, his family ...