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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).

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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

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

Johnson’s folie de grandeur

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

What does technological sovereignty mean for Europe?

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

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

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 [...]

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

Leaving Europe

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

The Manchester revolution

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

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

Time for postcapitalism

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

The new spirit of postcapitalism

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

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

‘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