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Tax and pensions: Facing reality

Legal Week, 3 hours 38 minutes ago / He often makes it hard, but you have to feel at least a little sorry for Alistair Darling.

Crafty banks have got round bonus tax

This Is Money, 10 hours 6 minutes ago / Bankers sabotaged a tax on massive bonuses by using their financial expertise to keep hold of their wealth, Alistair Darling has admitted.

Wall Street Roundup: Buffett gets a regulator. Bonus tax failure.

LA Land, Sep 02, 2010 / The number of people filing for unemployment claims fell slightly from last week , a bit of good news on the jobs front, but investors are waiting for the big monthly numbers Friday.

Darling exhumes Cameron's Big Mistake

The Spectator - UK, Aug 30, 2010 / Amid all the feverish commotion about cuts, it's easy to forget that it took the Tories until November 2008 to ditch Labour's spending plans - and, indeed, that it was barely a year ago when George Osborne first mentioned the c-word in public.

Was Darling's bleak prediction correct?

BBC World News, Aug 30, 2010 / In August 2008 the then chancellor Alistair Darling warned that Britain faced its worse downturn in 60 years.

Golden goodbyes: Labour ministers' £5million pension pots revealed

Daily Mail - London - UK, Aug 29, 2010 / Labour ministers walked away from their election defeat with pension pots topping £5million, it emerged at the weekend.

G-OLD LABOUR: Ministers quit with £5m in their pension pots

News of the World, Aug 28, 2010 / LABOUR ministers quit with £5 MILLION in their pension pots after being booted out of power.

Councillors slammed over points-scoring

The Star - Sheffield - South Yorkshire - UK, Aug 28, 2010 / A COUNCILLOR has hit out at hours of debates at Sheffield Town Hall being "wasted" by rival parties points-scoring on national issues. and criticise national Government policies over which they have no power or influence.

Talk of the Town: Dongaria shows us what's in a name

Edinburgh Evening News - Edinburgh - Midlothian - UK, Aug 25, 2010 / HAVING camped outside RBS offices for three days, few would argue that the Climate Camp protesters weren't stubborn, but one protestor is proving to be a little more stubborn than most of her peers.

What does a Double Dip Recession Actually Mean?

Pickled Politics, Aug 20, 2010 / In his post on Labour List, Sunny argues that Labour centrists undermined the message on the economy, by adopting Tory language.

How Labour lost the debate over the economy

LabourList.org, Aug 18, 2010 / Labour lost the economic messaging war with the Conservatives.

Why Alistair Darling is wrong

Liberal Conspiracy, Aug 18, 2010 / Rather than recognising that the public were rightly concerned about the level of borrowing, we got sidetracked into a debate about investment over cuts.

'World just hours from collapse' says Darling

The Scotsman - Edinburgh - Lothian - UK, Aug 17, 2010 / Shadow chancellor Alistair Darling told an audience at the Edinburgh Book Festival last night that the world economy was just "hours away" from collapse at the height of the financial crisis.

When Alistair Darling thought the Treasury would be an oasis of calm

Westminster Blog - FT.com, Aug 17, 2010 / The always self-depracating Alistair Darling* remembers today how he arrived in the Treasury without any inkling of the global crisis about to hit financial markets.

Darling responds to Osborne's Claims

Labour Party - UK, Aug 17, 2010 / Labour's Shadow Chancellor Alistair Darling responded to George Osborne's claims today that the government's economic policy is 'fair' and 'progre ssive'.

Alistair Darling attacks Gordon Brown's election failures

Scotsman.com, Aug 16, 2010 / ALISTAIR Darling will mount a thinly veiled attack on former Prime Minister Gordon Brown today as he seeks to distance himself from the failures of Labour's disastrous general election campaign.

Tear up inflation targeting

This Is Money, Aug 16, 2010 / True, the banking business has been rather more cautious than we had hoped in its response to our offer last week to set up a small firm that would pretend, for a small fee, to borrow money so that the bank concerned could claim to be hitting the proposed Government lending targets.

Labour’s legacy is fast growth and more jobs

Labour Matters, Aug 11, 2010 / The current Chairman of the Conservative Party, Baroness Warsi, and and Lib Dem Chris Huhne held a joint press conference today to put the ConDem spin on the employment figures and accuse Labour of being "in denial" of the need for spending cuts.

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Somali MPs killed in suicide bomb attack on Mogadishu hotel Telegraph - London - UK
Telegraph - London - UK, Aug 24, 2010/ The attack comes amid two days of fighting that have killed at least 40 civilians and wounded more than 130 in the capital according to Ali Muse, the head of Mogadishu's ambulance service.
Plane crashes in Nepal; foreigners among 14 dead The Seattle Times - Seattle WA
The Seattle Times - Seattle WA, Aug 24, 2010/ A small passenger plane heading to the Mount Everest region crashed in heavy rain Tuesday outside Nepal's capital, killing all 14 people aboard, including four Americans, a Briton and a Japanese national, officials said.
Cairn Energy narrows loss, sees Greenland promise MarketWatch
MarketWatch, Aug 24, 2010/ Scottish-headquartered oil exploration group Cairn Energy reported Tuesday that it sharply reduced net losses for the first half of the year, saying its first well in Greenland is showing signs of promise.
World stock markets fall as economy worries linger The Palm Beach Post - Palm Beach FL
The Palm Beach Post - Palm Beach FL, Aug 24, 2010/ World stock markets retreated Tuesday as the strong yen knocked Japanese shares and investors anticipated more bad news from U.S. economic reports this week.
Two British hostages survive bus siege carnage as eight are shot dead by rogue cop The Daily Mirror - London - UK
The Daily Mirror - London - UK, Aug 24, 2010/ Two Britons were rescued from a horrifying bus siege in which eight hostages died yesterday after a sacked policeman made a crazed attempt to get his job back.

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" You just need to be sensitive. Otherwise I fear that it holds the risk that someone is going to do something which, in the cold light of day, a few years down the line, maybe wasn't such a good idea. "
This Is Money, 10 hours 6 minutes ago
" A massive bias to the left "
The Guardian - London - UK, Sep 02, 2010
" Otherwise I fear that it holds the risk that someone is going to do something which, in the cold light of day, a few years down the line, maybe wasn't such a good idea. "
New Statesman, Sep 02, 2010
" You just need to be sensitive "
New Statesman, Sep 02, 2010
" Just last week George Osborne told us that his budget was 'fair.' But it's decisions, not warm words, that count. "
Interactive Investor, Aug 25, 2010

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Alistair Maclean Darling (born 28 November 1953) is a British Labour Party politician who has been a Member of Parliament (MP) since 1987, currently for Edinburgh South West.

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