Shamik Das
Another blow for Gillard as High Court rules refugee “swap” deal illegal
Australia's Labor prime minister Julia Gillard suffered a further blow today with the High Court ruling the controversial Malysia asylum seeker "swap" deal illegal.
FT takes apart Osborne’s Swiss tax deal
Today's Financial Times has drilled an alarming number of holes in George Osborne's much-spun anti-tax evasion deal with the Swiss authorities last week.
Starkey’s race theories “would disgrace a first-year undergraduate” say academics
Leading academics have savaged right-wing historian David Starkey's post-riot comments about race in which he said the problem was "whites have become black".
Look Left – Just when you thought hackgate couldn’t get any worse…
The News of the World phone hacking scandal plumbed new depths last night, with the news Sara Payne’s phone had been targeted, reports Shamik Das.
Tories used PIs “to spy on their own supporters”
There are reports this morning that the Conservative party used private investigators, like Glen Mulcaire, to delve into the personal lives of their own supporters.
Has the coalition lost the plot on growth?
Following the depressing growth figures, coalition big wigs have been keen to offer their hapoth's worth to George Osborne with a series of bizarre ideas.