FORMER Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott is among the political heavyweights headlining at this summer's Festival of Politics at the Scottish Parliament.

One of the unalloyed pleasures of Tony Blair's departure from politics was that out with him went John Prescott. John Prescott is back - along with his trademark gauche behaviour  No longer in British public life would we have to suffer the embarrassment of a deputy prime minister, no less,  who brawled in the gutter, claimed droite de seigneur with a diary secretary and procee...

There are three Ps in this particular odd pod: John Prescott, Sarah Palin and Parody. If you want to add a fourth P, then that's Politics, of course - and politicians' own, stumbling notion of why stereotypical voters jump to attention. Turn on Prescott: the Class System and Me tonight and see for yourself. John P would be a dream candidate over the pond: a Rocky from the wrong side of t...

Tim Montgomerie did a piece on the Politics Show critiquing Labour's online strategy this lunchtime. Sitting in the studio listening was the old bruiser himself, John Prescott. While using some pretty garbled internet language, it's true to say that John Prescott knows more about campaigning than Derek Draper will ever do. If he can transmitt than knowledge into an online environment I s...

Two Jags has gone all 2.0. That's right, the latest twist in a long line of alarming transformations (see image), has arrived for John Prescott. Namely, his very own blog. The Prescott Express rolled into town over the weekend and...

The image of John Prescott's face contorted into a highly amusing gurn - very much Gordon Brown meets Les Dawson - has attracted a great deal of attention. Prescott was trying to imitate Gordon Brown's dreadful YouTube grin. John Prescott imitates Gordon Brown Photo: Ross Parry

HE IS renowned for his somewhat colourful approach to politics, so when John Prescott encountered a group of SNP activists at a Glasgow train station he didn't disappoin

John Prescott has brought his own brand of say it like it is politics to the blogosphere. His blog seems to be very much the unvarnished Prescott, and is part of Alaistair Campbell's new website, campaigning for a Labour 4th. term. Prescott made minor ructions with a recent post describing former Downing Sreet policy chief Matthew Taylor as a "typical pointy head" and likening him to a "Mekon" (th...

The gloves have come off. And John Prescott's new blog just keeps getting better and better. After Iain Dale cheekily suggested that Prescott might not write everything himself, 2.0 Jags responded with this: Harmony has now been restored in blog...

Earlier this week, Iain Dale doubted whether or not John Prescott really pens his blog. John Prescott has taken to YouTube to make his case: Iain seems to have taken it all in good heart.