Despite the loss of one recent political scrap in Humberside, Lord Prescott's pugnacious nature is sure to reappear on both the ancient platform of the UK's upper chamber of Parliament, and the slightly less ancient platform of Twitter.

BBC: The John Prescott story

WTO's pugnacious new boss, has started the long fight to win over sceptics on globalisation.

ECONOMIST: Storm over globalisation

SRA's pugnacious chairman, has a long record in financing business projects such as Eurotunnel.

ECONOMIST: Railways