Alistair Darling

Good day Darling?

bbc.co.uk     21 hrs ago   1 related          

Alistair Darling is likely to get a rapturous standing ovation from his Trade Union comrades when he addresses the TUC conference on Tuesday. But only if he does the following: Hands clasping the podium he lambasts the...                    

Top stories from the UK

timesonline.co.uk     14 hrs ago          

Blaze clues Crime So what did happen at “massacre mansion”, as the tabloids have dubbed the manor house in Shropshire where three people died? Two of the three bodies discovered amid the rubble of Osbaston house, near...                    

A sterling pounding but not a bloodbath

timesonline.co.uk     12 hrs ago          

David Smith: Economic Outlook Friendless, lonely, unloved. If so, Gordon Brown’s government will be belatedly following the pattern established by all its Labour predecessors. This time, the pound has lost more than 10%...                    

Britain: Alistair Darling and the implosion of the Labour government

indybay.org     16 hrs ago          

Saturday, September 6, 2008 :The August 30 Guardian interview with Britains Chancellor Alistair Darling was extraordinary in many respects. In the first place there can be few occasions that so dramatically reveal the...                    

Polly : Get Rid of Brown or the Labour Party Will Die

5thnovember.blogspot.com     15 hrs ago          

Once he was Polly's "towering intellect" and the greatest politician of our time. A year later and now "Unseating Gordon Brown may be Labour's last chance".Polly says Guido is no good at writing about politics because...                    

Polly Toynbee: Unseating Gordon Brown may be Labour's last chance

guardian.co.uk     yesterday   61 related          

Getting rid of the prime minister is a very high risk strategy, but a dying party should be ready to take dangerous medicine The smell of death around this government is so overpowering it seems to have anaesthetised them...                    

The Reporter: Rupert Jones takes a sideways look at the news

guardian.co.uk     yesterday          

Rupert Jones takes a sideways look at the news Vote for me ... please We may well be two years from a general election, but already the bribes have started to appear. Ministers have temporarily raised the threshold at...                    

Stock market suffers worst week since 2002

telegraph.co.uk     yesterday          

By Harry Wallop and Edmund Conway Families face a significant drop in the value of their pensions, savings and investments after the stock market suffered its worst week in six years. The FTSE 100 index of leading shares...                    

Aussie and Kiwi take a battering

ft.com     yesterday          

The dollar and the yen surged higher this week as investors sought sanctuary from sliding assets markets. The Aussie dollar was also undermined as the Reserve Bank of Australia cut interest rates for the first time in...                    

Brown's Cabinet Has the Courage of Their Leader

iaindale.blogspot.com     yesterday          

Charles Clarke's rantings this week were the sign of a man who needed his latest fix of media attention. As I write in today's Eastern Daily Press...It’s one of Charles Clarke’s more endearing qualities that he can never...