Paxman became a presenter of Newsnight in 1989.

The track, which was co-written by Tzuke with Mike Paxman, became a Top 20 hit in the UK in the summer of 1979 and a # 1 hit in Australia and was featured on Tzuke's 1979 debut album, Welcome to the Cruise, which was also a Top 20 hit.

With the more liberal society of the 1960s, the coeducational liberal arts ethos of the school became extremely fashionable, attracting many literary and artistic parents, including Lawrence Durrell, Simon Raven, Robert Graves, Cecil Day-Lewis, Peggy Guggenheim, Ted Hughes, Edna O ' Brien, John and Penelope Mortimer, Frederick Raphael, Joseph Losey, Peter Hall, Peter Brook, Laurence Olivier, Joan Plowright, Susan Hampshire, Jill Balcon, Mick Jagger, Jude Law, Pete Townshend, Sandie Shaw, Trevor Nunn, Jeremy Paxman, A.

The Ruston Paxman diesels division became known as Ruston Diesels, and moved the former English Electric diesel works.

Speaking of prime minister Tony Blair's criticism of the mass media at the time he left office, Paxman asserted that often press and broadcasting may be " oppositional " in relation to the government of the day this could only benefit democracy.

Memorably, he was interviewed by Jeremy Paxman on the election night prior to the calling of his own seat and was stumped by the question of " Are we seeing the end of the Conservative Party as a credible force in British politics?

Eventually, Polydor agreed to allow Tzuke to re-record the entire album with her own team of husband Paul Muggleton and Mike Paxman.

Her colleague Jeremy Paxman described the walkout as a " stunt ", arguing that people should have the right to criticise Zionism.

The second section is an analysis of a BBC2 Newsnight programme on 19 October 1999 hosted by Jeremy Paxman with Charles Thomson attacking that year's Turner Prize and artist Brad Lochore defending it.

The programme generated much publicity prior to its transmission by displaying the usually pitiless Paxman teary-eyed on camera when informed that his impoverished great-grandmother Mary Mackay's poor relief had been revoked because she'd had a child out of wedlock.

While this is not illegal in the UK if employees live in, Paxman, known for grilling interviewees on workers ' rights issues, was criticised when his employees went public, claiming to have been paid " the bare minimum ".

Paxman has been widely condemned as disrespectful when commented in an absurd way the possible exit of Greece from the Eurozone (' like bad kebab vomiting ") on 31 May 2012 edition of Newsnight.

A further controversy came when the television interviewer, Jeremy Paxman, relentlessly asked him the same question 12 times in all, ( 14 if including two earlier inquiries that were worded somewhat differently ) during an edition of the Newsnight programme.

Asking whether Howard had intervened when Derek Lewis sacked a prison governor, Paxman asked: " Did you threaten to overrule him?

Paxman appeared as himself in an episode of BBC comedy The Thick of It which aired in January 2007.

Paxman took the opportunity to dismiss as " inaccurate " the attribution to himself, which was, in fact, Louis Heren, of the oft-quoted " Why is this lying bastard lying to me?

" Paxman himself is quarter-Scottish through his maternal grandmother, a fact which he stated has led to many of his comments being misunderstood as he regards the Scots " with affection ".

The song also featured in an ITV documentary series about recording techniques, where Tzuke and her producers Mike Paxman and Paul Muggleton showed how the song had been constructed using sound bytes of her voice which were transposed into a synthesizer range.

When interviewed on election night television by Jeremy Paxman, Hughes suggested that the fall in his vote might reflect the unpopularity of Southwark Council, which has been controlled by the Liberal Democrats since 2002.

The design shared some similarities with Class 15, both being of the road-switcher layout which was uncommon in the U. K., and both being powered by an Paxman 16YHXL prime mover.

Although the works still produced diesel engines under name Ruston Paxman Diesels Limited, which had been moved from Lincoln, locomotive manufacture finished in 1970.

Paxman has also calculated that only 8 % of new entrants in 2008 made any reference to marital breakdown, which is far below the national average.

Technically, Ruston & Hornsby Ltd existed at the Vulcan Foundry in Newton-le-Willows in Merseyside until 2002, which was known as Ruston Diesels ( former Ruston Paxman Diesels ).

The engine used in the prototype power cars was the Paxman ' Valenta ' 12RP200L, which developed.

D830 Majestic was equipped with two Paxman YJXL Ventura engines rated at each as a potential showcase of an alternative British engine which might prove superior to the German Maybach.

The documentary concluded him to be descended from one Roger Packsman, a 14th century politician from Suffolk who had changed his name to Paxman ( man of peace, " Pax " translates from Latin as peace ) to impress " the electorate.

Later, during a 20th anniversary edition of Newsnight, Paxman told Howard that he had simply been trying to prolong the interview since the next item in the running order wasn't ready.

Referring to Oona King, whom Galloway had just defeated, Paxman asked more than once whether he was proud of having got rid of " one of the very few black women in Parliament.

Paxman later made a taped guest appearance on the Celebrity Big Brother reality TV show challenging Galloway to a follow-up session " with or without your leotard " ( Galloway, a Big Brother contestant at the time, had in an earlier much-publicised stunt during the show dressed up in a leotard ).

In his introduction, Paxman acknowledged that the Irish writer Neil Hegarty had played a significant role in editing the book and bringing it to completion.

Later, during a twentieth anniversary edition of Newsnight, Paxman told Howard that he'd simply been trying desperately to string out the interview because the next item in the running order had failed to materialize.

As Jeremy Paxman wrote, " the Labour MP Paul Marsden took the unprecedented step of recording the dressing-down ", where he said that he had been confronted with accusations that " those aren't with us are against us ," " war is not a matter of conscience " and " it was people like you who appeased Hitler in 1938 ", infuriating Marsden to going public.

In a BBC interview with Jeremy Paxman, she admitted that she had not raised the matter with staff counsellors as she " honestly didn't think that would have had any practical effect.

Oborne was ' chided ' by Jeremy Paxman, chief Newsnight anchor, for ' gratuituous rudeness ' after he himself, given Oborne's ' pace-setting ,' and before Tardio's walk-out, had asked for a response from, ' Mr. Idiot in Brussels.

To power the HST at up to, each power car had a new diesel engine, the 12-cylinder Paxman Valenta, running at 1, 500 rpm and developing.

In July 2007 in interview with Jeremy Paxman on BBC Two's " Newsnight " programme, it was reported that Hunter had pledged to donate a further £ 1 billion to charity.

Most were powered by two Paxman 6ZHXL engines of each, an engine originally used in diesel railcars but the last two of the Clayton-built batch, D8586-D8587, each had a pair of Rolls Royce Type D engines.

Paxman is the eldest of four children and has two brothers, one of whom, Giles, is the British Ambassador to Spain ( having previously been ambassador to Mexico ), and a sister, Jenny, a producer at BBC Radio.

Paxman has been publicly criticised over his and his partner's home help arrangements.

Paxman has been criticised by John Pilger for his involvement with the British-American Project.

Jeremy Paxman has been its main presenter for over two decades.

His 1994 volume of memoirs, A Bag of Boiled Sweets, was described by Jeremy Paxman as " the most entertaining set of political memoirs to have been published in years ".