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Paul Mason

Paul Mason

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Paul Mason is a British author and radio personality. In 2015 he published his book PostCapitalism: A Guide to our Future (Allen Lane).

Articles

Future of social democracy | 06.07.2021

The soft underbelly of British politics

A by-election in northern England has just provided proof of concept for one of the most effective campaigns to degrade and destabilise UK democracy

Future of social democracy | 10.05.2021

Hard Labour

Labour’s electoral debacle shows European social democracy’s coalition-building challenge. It needs both the small-town and big-city worker

Foreign and security policy | 17.03.2021

Lost an empire, not found a role

The real strategic threat to UK security is that the rules-based global order disintegrates. That's why Britain’s defence focus should be [...]

Foreign and security policy | 25.01.2021

Unsplendid isolation: Britain after ‘Brexit’

A Biden presidency — allied to an EU pursuing ‘strategic autonomy’ — leaves a ‘sovereign’ UK with a bit-part role

European integration | 24.11.2020

Barrelling towards the ‘Brexit’ cliff edge

The most frightening thing is not the UK government’s end-game strategy, Paul Mason writes. It’s that there isn’t one

Democracy and society | 14.10.2020

Golden Dawn verdict—no sunset for the far right

With authoritarian conservatives in the White House and the Kremlin it’s no surprise the far right is thriving in Europe

Europe | 08.09.2020

Johnson’s folie de grandeur

London is not only misrecognising the EU in its ‘no deal’ brinkmanship on Brexit. It is misrecognising the UK

Europe | 01.07.2020

What does technological sovereignty mean for Europe?

Europe needs a coherent understanding of technological sovereignty based on the values, rights and freedoms of its people

Europe | 18.05.2020

Brexit: deaths, more deaths … and no-deal calculations

In a nightmare-scenario ‘Brexit’, the UK government provokes no-deal chaos hoping to profit after its Covid-19 shambles

Europe | 07.04.2020

How his ‘Brexit’ project explains Johnson’s dithering on Covid-19

Paul Mason explains how Boris Johnson’s initial response to the coronavirus came from his particularistic empire nostalgia

Europe | 27.02.2020

After Brexit, it’s open season for xenophobia

Even though the UK has technically left the EU, ‘Brexit’ has escalated into a culture war over immigration

Europe | 13.01.2020

Leaving Europe

With his EU citizenship ending, it’s not the passport Paul Mason worries about. It’s the values it was supposed to represent

Europe | 07.11.2019

The Manchester revolution

Paul Mason reimagines the Manchester of his birth in a postcapitalist age — and raises the challenge of getting there

Europe | 11.09.2019

The challenge for Corbynomics

The surest way for Labour to redistribute power and wealth is by creating a wide safety net of universal basic services

Europe | 02.07.2019

Time for postcapitalism

Neither falling poverty nor rising wellbeing, but time itself will be the ultimate measure of the transition beyond capitalism

Europe | 08.04.2019

The new spirit of postcapitalism

Capitalism emerged in the interstices of feudalism. Now, we see the seeds of postcapitalism growing in today's European city

Global | 25.02.2019

The unbearable unrealism of the present

Are solutions to climate breakdown compatible with capitalism? Not really, says Paul Mason. We need a new economic model

Videos | 30.11.2017

‘We can’t play to the prejudices of people who used to vote for us’

Journalist and writer Paul Mason on how Jeremy Corbyn is reinvigorating Britain’s Left