A calm and content Chancellor

For a man tackling what he prophetically, if at the time controversially, described last year as the worst economic slump for 60 years, Alistair Darling is in remarkably tranquil mood. Jacketless and sitting back on the sofa in his Treasury office this week, the Chancellor is focused, bullish, sharp – and distinctly unrattled.

says Donald Macintyre as he interview the Chancellor in this week's addition of the New Statesman

It's a worth a read if only because it indeed shows a more confident chancellor whose seems to have recovered from the stumblings that surrounded his Guardian interview back in the summer.Of cause his warnings at that time,although critised as being too gloomy were proved to be spot on

The famously calm Chancellor has emerged as something of an unlikely hero of the whirlwind of economic events of the past year