The Old Etonians who STILL run Britain
Our Political Editor tots up the number of members of the current Government who went to Eton.
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Kate Middleton’s origins – unlike those of the blue-blooded Princess Diana – are unspectacular, not to say humble. We look back over the life and times of the woman who could become the next Queen.
As they prepare to enter into the Royal elite, the Middleton family have been granted the “must have” for any family of the aristocracy, a thoroughly personal Coat of Arms.
Our Political Editor tots up the number of members of the current Government who went to Eton.
Prince William and Kate Middleton are to marry at Westminster Abbey on Friday 29 April 2011. Downing Street has announced the day will be a public holiday. FactCheck investigates.
The wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton could empty the Queen’s reserve funds ahead of her Diamond Jubilee in 2012, Channel 4 News discovers.
Prince William is to marry girlfriend Kate Middleton next year after proposing last month, using his mother’s iconic engagement ring but hoping to “learn lessons from the past”, as Gary Gibbon hears.
British officials have told Channel 4 that they have seen “nothing to back up the claim” that one of the two parcel bombs defused in the East Midlands and Dubai was just 17 minutes from exploding.
Gordon Brown may taunt the Tories for inventing policy on the “playing fields of Eton”, but his Schools Secretary Ed Balls also spend time at the public school.
The Speaker election on Monday could be a very drawn out process. It all depends how many potential candidates get enough nominations to become full candidates by Monday at 10.30am.
The shredding of Sir Fred Goodwin’s glassware has an awful inevitability about it. His own behaviour may have led to his demonisation. It’s hard to see how his position can improve until either the authorities act (if there’s a provable case against him) or he tries to make some kind of amends.
At least 8% of the adult population in Wales now has diabetes, the highest estimated prevalence rate of the four UK nations. The rate of new diabetes registrations, mostly Type 2, continues to astound.
We were joined by the American author and political commentator Eddie Glaude, who’s a professor at Princeton University.
We are joined by former subpostmaster Lee Castleton who tried to defend himself against false accusations by the Post Office that he had stolen money, and was subsequently bankrupted.
We were joined by two of the wrongly accused sub-postmasters, Janet Skinner and Lee Castleton.
US Presidential candidate, Dr Cornel West tells Krishnan Guru-Murthy why he thinks US foreign policy on Israel is enabling destruction in Gaza, how both Biden and Trump are problematic for oppressed groups, and why it’s difficult to have hope to change the world without also being in despair at the suffering we see, in this episode of Ways to Change the World.