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Foreign and security policy
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If it wants to achieve anything close to ‘military strategic autonomy’ in the future, Europe must rearm itself on a continental scale
Foreign and security policy
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While Trump is busy campaigning, European leaders are faced with an unnerving question: what will happen if he becomes president again?
Democracy and society
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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
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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
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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
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The protests, devastating figures on salaries and price rises cannot capture the sheer scale of panic and despair among young workers
Work and digitalisation
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The Conservative Party used to be famed for its pragmatic retention of power. It’s lost that muscle memory
Foreign and security policy
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Russia is trying to sow division between the EU and NATO to achieve its main aims. And is largely succeeding
European integration
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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
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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
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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
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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
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A Biden presidency — allied to an EU pursuing ‘strategic autonomy’ — leaves a ‘sovereign’ UK with a bit-part role
European integration
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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
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With authoritarian conservatives in the White House and the Kremlin it’s no surprise the far right is thriving in Europe
Europe
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London is not only misrecognising the EU in its ‘no deal’ brinkmanship on Brexit. It is misrecognising the UK
Europe
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Europe needs a coherent understanding of technological sovereignty based on the values, rights and freedoms of its people
Europe
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In a nightmare-scenario ‘Brexit’, the UK government provokes no-deal chaos hoping to profit after its Covid-19 shambles
Europe
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Paul Mason explains how Boris Johnson’s initial response to the coronavirus came from his particularistic empire nostalgia
Europe
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Even though the UK has technically left the EU, ‘Brexit’ has escalated into a culture war over immigration
Europe
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With his EU citizenship ending, it’s not the passport Paul Mason worries about. It’s the values it was supposed to represent
Europe
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Paul Mason reimagines the Manchester of his birth in a postcapitalist age — and raises the challenge of getting there
Europe
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The surest way for Labour to redistribute power and wealth is by creating a wide safety net of universal basic services
Europe
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Neither falling poverty nor rising wellbeing, but time itself will be the ultimate measure of the transition beyond capitalism
Europe
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Capitalism emerged in the interstices of feudalism. Now, we see the seeds of postcapitalism growing in today's European city
Global
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Are solutions to climate breakdown compatible with capitalism? Not really, says Paul Mason. We need a new economic model
Videos
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Journalist and writer Paul Mason on how Jeremy Corbyn is reinvigorating Britain’s Left