Shamik Das Articles

For ‘Education, education, education’, read ‘Employment, employment, employment’. Employment for all will be the primary means of bringing about social justice, bringing down the deficit and growing the economy under an Ed Miliband One Nation Labour government. The...

Against the background of the Peter Kellner’s analysis presented to Progress conference on Saturday, all thoughts were geared towards how Labour can win a majority in 2015 – and what might happen were such a result to prove out of reach, with Labour MPs John Denham...

Today’s GDP figures offer a glimmer of light for the economy, up 0.3 per cent following the previous quarter’s contraction, thus avoiding a triple dip and raising hopes of good times ahead. Though still small, the better than expected rise has allowed George Osborne...

The left may have fallen short in Italy, but we can learn from its campaign nonetheless, reports Shamik Das It may seem perverse to talk about the lessons we can learn from Italy’s recent deadlocked election – the one in which the crook, the comedian and the...