Paul Mason from London – Authors profile, articles and posts

Democracy and society | 13.11.2023

A new world order: from warring states to citizens

A new multilateralism must embody the values of Asia, Africa and Latin America, alongside the West. But above all, it has to restate universalism

Future of social democracy | 31.07.2023

The answer to an anti-green backlash is to be redder

The transition beyond carbon is a class struggle. That, paradoxically, is the lesson of Uxbridge — and the sooner Labour learns it, the better

Democracy and society | 22.05.2023

On the wrong side of Britain’s history

Last week has shown that the Tories' liberal wing was destroyed by Brexit and that fascism — disguised as neoliberal nationalism — is on the rise

Democracy and society | 30.03.2023

Suave Sunak's cold comfort for impoverished Britons

The protests, devastating figures on salaries and price rises cannot capture the sheer scale of panic and despair among young workers

Work and digitalisation | 30.01.2023

Behind Britain’s strike wave

There is no way out of a skills crisis this big other than through institutional changes. But the Tories don't have the time or appetite for that

Foreign and security policy | 14.12.2022

Pre-empting the coming world war

German social democracy has learned: it’s possible to detest militarism but commit to deterrence – a lesson Europe’s progressives still have to learn

Economy and ecology | 21.09.2022

Fresh-start Truss faces a ‘sudden stop’

Truss aims for economic growth, but after Brexit and the pandemic, the country is staring down the barrel of a collapsing economy

Democracy and society | 13.06.2022

Boris Johnson: blustering on

The prime minister has made many promises but kept few. To reverse the brewing crisis, he needs institutions like those he chose to leave with Brexit

Foreign and security policy | 18.04.2022

Ukraine, NATO, and a Zeitenwende

Many NATO members are watching the war in Ukraine unfold without grasping the reality of the situation. They must rethink NATO’s strategic future

Democracy and society | 07.02.2022

Boris Johnson: a political career in freefall

The Conservative Party used to be famed for its pragmatic retention of power. It’s lost that muscle memory

Foreign and security policy | 02.12.2021

The fragility of western democracy

Russia is trying to sow division between the EU and NATO to achieve its main aims. And is largely succeeding

European integration | 04.10.2021

Britain heads further down the Brexit rabbit-hole

Despite petrol shortages and empty shelves, the Labour Party is adrift — and Johnson may press the Northern Ireland protocol nuclear button

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

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