Paul Mason
Social Europe
United Kingdom
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Behind Britain’s strike wave
The Tory government, Paul Mason writes, is a victim of the skills shortages its ‘free markets’ have engendered. → Read More
Pre-empting the coming world war
Despite Ukraine, Paul Mason writes, Europe is still not awake to the security threat it faces. → Read More
Fresh-start Truss faces a ‘sudden stop’
Paul Mason writes that the UK is staring into an economic abyss for which it is wholly unprepared. → Read More
Boris Johnson: blustering on
The grandiose promises Johnson makes to survive, Paul Mason writes, rely on a state like those ... in the European Union. → Read More
Ukraine, NATO and a Zeitenwende
Russia has upended the old rules-based order, Paul Mason writes. Europe needs to shape a new one. → Read More
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. → Read More
Putin, pugilism and pusillanimity
Paul Mason finds the democratic world in the very disarray the authoritarian in the Kremlin has sought. → Read More
Britain heads further down the Brexit rabbit-hole
Despite petrol shortages and empty shelves, Labour is adrift—and Johnson may press the Northern Ireland protocol nuclear button. → Read More
The soft underbelly of British politics
A by-election in northern England highlights the corrosive atrophying of the UK body politic, Paul Mason writes. → Read More
Democracy, activism and the rule of law—key weapons against fascism – Paul Mason
Fascism is not just sepia images of yesteryear but a contemporary threat. A liberal-left alliance is needed to counter it. → Read More
How the Covid shock has radicalised generation Z
Analysis: young people’s testimonies show they are ready to draw systemic conclusions from the handling of the pandemic by political elites → Read More
Hard Labour – Paul Mason
Labour’s electoral debacle, Paul Mason writes, epitomises European social democracy’s coalition-building challenge. It just doesn’t see it that way. → Read More
Lost an empire, not found a role – Paul Mason
Paul Mason finds in the UK’s foreign and defence review a wilful refusal of its natural European engagement. → Read More
Unsplendid isolation: Britain after ‘Brexit’ – Paul Mason
Paul Mason writes that a Biden US presidency allied to an EU pursuing ‘strategic autonomy’ leaves a ‘sovereign’ UK with a bit-part role. → Read More
Barrelling towards the ‘Brexit’ cliff edge – Paul Mason
The most frightening thing is not the UK government’s end-game strategy, Paul Mason writes. It’s that there isn’t one. → Read More
Golden Dawn verdict—no sunset for the far right – Paul Mason
Paul Mason argues that with authoritarian conservatives in the White House and the Kremlin it’s no surprise the far right is thriving in Europe. → Read More
The International Brigades by Giles Tremlett review
First-person stories reveal the truth behind a dirty and chaotic conflict → Read More
Johnson’s folie de grandeur – Paul Mason
London is not only misrecognising the EU in its ‘no deal’ brinkmanship on Brexit. It is misrecognising the UK. → Read More
Technological sovereignty—and a sepia-image Britain – Paul Mason
Paul Mason bemoans how ‘Brexit’ has left the UK a beached whale in a world in need of technological regulation driven by European values. → Read More
Brexit: deaths, more deaths
In a nightmare-scenario 'Brexit' denouement, the UK government provokes no-deal chaos from which it hopes to profit after its Covid-19 shambles. → Read More