Foreign and security policy | 17.03.2021Lost 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 | 25.01.2021Unsplendid 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 | 24.11.2020Barrelling 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 | 14.10.2020Golden 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 | 08.09.2020Johnson’s folie de grandeur London is not only misrecognising the EU in its ‘no deal’ brinkmanship on Brexit. It is misrecognising the UK
Europe | 01.07.2020What 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 | 18.05.2020Brexit: 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 | 07.04.2020How 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 | 27.02.2020After 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 | 13.01.2020Leaving 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 | 07.11.2019The Manchester revolution Paul Mason reimagines the Manchester of his birth in a postcapitalist age — and raises the challenge of getting there
Europe | 11.09.2019The 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 | 02.07.2019Time for postcapitalism Neither falling poverty nor rising wellbeing, but time itself will be the ultimate measure of the transition beyond capitalism
Europe | 08.04.2019The 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 | 25.02.2019The 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
Not even the pandemic could stop a new arms race The pandemic could have been a chance to reverse high military spending globally. Instead, we could be heading towards a new Cold War-style arms race
We need to talk about overfishing By jointly ending harmful fisheries subsidies, China and Europe can help tackle climate change and protect local communities’ livelihoods
Why inclusion and equality pay off for all of us Fostering inclusion and combating inequality should concern everyone — the resulting long-term problems affect society as a whole