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
Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover is a colossally bad idea Elon Musk mistakes Twitter for some sort of ‘digital town square’. In reality, it’s a global publisher that — like any other — needs to be regulated
The false promise of democratic peace The belief that democracies don’t start wars, but only dictatorships do, has been central to the Anglo-American worldview. But it is more complicated
The far-right vs. women’s rights The US Supreme Court’s imminent attack on woman’s right to an abortion is underwritten by a reactionary, sexist, and racist far-right movement