Alistair Darling – An Exercise in the Fundamentals of Orthodoxy

Catching Up

By Peter Ould Posted on June 17, 2009 Posted in Lighter Things, UK Politics No Comments Tagged with Alistair Darling, Amstrad, Baroness, Britons, Digital Revolution, Doctrine Of Transparency, Esther Rantzen, Expense Claims, Fortnight, Gordon Brown, Graeme Archer, Iraq War, Miasma, New Doctrine, Peter Mandelson, Public Enquiry, Shahid Malik, Sir Basil, Tsar, Tsarina

Thankfully for those of who have been out of the country for the past fortnight, Graeme Archer has all the news. 1. Gordon Brown is still Prime Minister. We know this because he wrote anÂ article for The Times yesterday …

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10p U-Turn STILL taxes the poorest

By Peter Ould Posted on May 14, 2008 Posted in Reuben, UK Politics 5 Comments Tagged with 10p, 2393, Abolition, Alistair Darling, Colum, Daily Mail, Frontpage Mail, Genes, Income Tax, Labour Party, Loss Gain, Obvious Conclusion, Read Mail, Returning Home, Reuben, Spreadsheet, Tax Bands, Tax Payers, Threshold, Turnaround, U Turn

Reuben and I couldn’t sleep, so we decided to go for a drive, pick up a Daily Mail and McD’s breakfast and see if that helped. On returning home, we read the frontpage of the Mail and decided to work …

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Why Darling should cut Fuel Duty

By Peter Ould Posted on May 6, 2008 Posted in Environment, UK Politics 7 Comments Tagged with 15p, 25p, 2p, Alistair Darling, Autumn, Chancellor, Colonists, Diesel, Extra Money, Fuel Duty, Fuel Prices, Key Point, Litre, Mathematics, Mr Darling, Public Transport, Rough Guide, Tesco, Vat

Here in the UK (and I guess elsewhere if my friends in the US are anything to go by) the price of petrol ("gas" for you colonists) has shot up in the last few weeks. Only yesterday the price per …

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Catching Up

10p U-Turn STILL taxes the poorest

Why Darling should cut Fuel Duty