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[Investments news from Prudent Minds] Ethical investments growth beats FTSE 100 returns - investments news: The European markets were given a boost by .Announced in Alistair Darling's Budget report in April, the Social Investment Wholesale Bank will allow consumers to put their money into more ethical investments such as the environment and society...

[Guy Fawkes' blog] +++ PSBR New September Record £14.8 Billion +++ - Guy Fawkes' blog: We actually had good conditions for this pre-Darling. However, with the loss of Taper Relief and the introduction of higher income tax rates, together with the loss of tax relief on pension contributions for high earners the risk-reward ratio is no longer favourable.

[politicalbetting.com] politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Is the problem now Brown's ...: So, is the latest apparent falling out over cuts between Darling and Brown merely a change of method. After all, it has already been trailed that Brown would make announcements of cuts therefore why not have Darling lead on this with Brown as a reluctant passenger (who can still mumble into his porridge, and the ears of any backbenchers who will listen, “Well I wouldn’t have done it that way”).

[Guy Fawkes' blog] Iain Martin Leaving Labourgraph - Guy Fawkes' blog: If you have, as I presume Guido does, a daily readership of well over 100,000 you can make a serious dent in the Daily Telegraph online readership, and thus also their advertising revenue just by keeping the pressure on every week or so with another story about DTel bias toward Labour. Pretty soon you’ll also get the paper buyers to start thinking twice about buying what is starting to look like a red rag.

[politicalbetting.com] politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Is this a smart idea for the ...: From a Tory perspective, the fewer wise old heads around to cool tempers and assuage splits after the election, the better. As the Tory source says it makes life more difficult for the Labour ministers involved, and potentially presents them with an ethical and tactical quandary.

[Andrew Neil's blog] BBC - Andrew Neil's blog: Still searching for green shoots: In announcing its withdrawal from the pipeline - which is misleading since the Bank is still invested in the ExxonMobil-led consortium to the tune of $100 million through its private investment arm, the International Finance Corporation, and presumably reaping significant profits - the World Bank appears to have come to terms with the fact that its only remaining move is largely symbolic, since its leverage and credibility have diminished: the $65-odd million that the government was asked to repay ahead of time is a pittance compared to the $1.4 billion in oil revenues expected during this year alone.

[Cricketdiane's Weblog] Raw Data - nuclear terrorism and stuff - unseparated ...: Their advice was rejected and in January 1958 the three Treasury ministers Peter Thorneycroft, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Nigel Birch, Economic Secretary to the Treasury, and Enoch Powell, the Financial Secretary to the Treasury, resigned. Macmillan, away on a tour of the Commonwealth, brushed aside this incident as ‘a little local difficulty’.

[Andrew Neil's blog] BBC - Andrew Neil's blog: Causation or correlation?: This is not quite trade-for-terrorism but it is hard not conclude that British ministers knew their growing rapprochement with Tripoli was likely to hit the buffers unless the al Megrahi matter was addressed. London might always have made it clear it was really a matter for Edinburgh -- but from sometime in the second half of 2007 it also let Tripoli know that London would not stand in the way of his return.

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