Blog posts tagged "Alistair Darling"

January 24, 2012 8:52 pm 4 Comments

It is the Bank of England governor's piercing assault on bankers that sticks in the mind from today's important speech in Brighton. He doesnt quite join Occupy the City, but he does suggest that British capitalism's very legitimacy is up for grabs if bankers go too far on pay.

September 7, 2011 8:41 pm 7 Comments

Faisal Islam pores over Alistair Darling's memoir and finds some extraordinary revelations about the banks which still have relevance today.

October 25, 2010 11:21 am 4 Comments

Quantitative Easing: What on earth has happened to the £200bn?

September 1, 2010 5:20 pm 7 Comments

The Chancellor recently derided the Labour leadership candidates as ‘deficit-deniers’, an opinion with which Tony Blair appears to concur. The final chapter of his new book does place him closer to the Coalition Treasury than the economic policies outlined to date by the candidates. Ahead of our Labour leadership hustings on the economy, it’s worth [...]

June 14, 2010 4:53 pm 7 Comments

Faisal Islam blogs on how Sir Alan Budd's forecast has far from backed up the government'sline on the deficit.

2:06 pm 5 Comments

The OBR experts have just released their first financial forecasts. It is not a mandate for a much sharper axe, writes Faisal Islam.

May 21, 2010 6:02 pm 7 Comments

Faisal Islam imagines what a letter between Alistair Darling and George Osborne could look like.

March 30, 2010 6:56 pm No Comments

About five minutes after Channel 4's Ask the Chancellors debate had ended, Britain's first ever "spin room" was invaded by a phalanx of sharp-suited Conservatives, blogs Faisal Islam.

March 25, 2010 4:48 pm No Comments

The word bulk is now key to the election economics. It is the root of what difference exists between Labour and Conservatives in terms of their spending cuts and tax rises.

March 24, 2010 6:26 pm No Comments

What has happened to the giant pothole in the public finances? The answer is that some of it, more than expected, has been filled in, but not by Mr Darling, writes Faisal Islam.