A looming trade war and security threats leave European leaders scrambling to decipher the American president’s true intentions.
Britain’s Choice: Europe or a Collapsing America
As the USA withdraws from European security, Keir Starmer faces a defining moment: realign with Europe or cling to a fading alliance.
Britain at a Crossroads: financial turmoil meets political threats
Keir Starmer’s government finds itself on the frontline of a global power struggle.
Draghi, Putin and economic warfare in Europe
It has yet to dawn on Europe’s leaders, Paul Mason writes, that the whole continent is implicated in Russia’s war on Ukraine.
After Russia, Europe must wake up to China too
Europe’s real problem with China is not electric vehicles. It is the elemental vehemence of the Chinese Communist Party.
Europe’s defence industrial strategy: beyond the rhetoric
Whoever wins the US presidential election, Paul Mason writes, the EU has no option but to underpin its collective defence.
Europe’s nightmare: an isolationist America
A spectre is haunting Europe, Paul Mason writes. It is the spectre of Trumpism, mark two.
A new world order: from warring states to citizens
It will take decades of intellectual effort, Paul Mason writes, before a new world order emerges from the cumulative chaos.
The answer to an anti-green backlash is to be redder
Labour must not follow the Tories downwards, Paul Mason writes, as they grasp at electoral straws.
On the wrong side of Britain’s history
‘National Conservatism’, Paul Mason writes, fails to chime with British national-popular culture.
Suave Sunak cold comfort for impoverished Britons
Real incomes have been ravaged in the UK, Paul Mason writes. That’s why the strikes are popular.
Behind Britain’s strike wave
The Tory government, Paul Mason writes, is a victim of the skills shortages its ‘free markets’ have engendered.
Pre-empting the coming world war
Despite Ukraine, Paul Mason writes, Europe is still not awake to the security threat it faces.
Fresh-start Truss faces a ‘sudden stop’
The UK is staring into an economic abyss for which it is wholly unprepared.
Boris Johnson: blustering on
The grandiose promises Johnson makes to survive, Paul Mason writes, rely on a state like those … in the European Union.
Ukraine, NATO and a Zeitenwende
Russia has upended the old rules-based order, Paul Mason writes. Europe needs to shape a new one.
Boris Johnson: a political career in freefall
The Conservative Party used to be famed for its pragmatic retention of power, Paul Mason writes. It’s lost that muscle memory.
Putin, pugilism and pusillanimity
Paul Mason finds the democratic world in the very disarray the authoritarian in the Kremlin has sought.
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.
The soft underbelly of British politics
A by-election in northern England highlights the corrosive atrophying of the UK body politic, Paul Mason writes.
Democracy, activism and the rule of law—key weapons against fascism
Fascism is not just sepia images of yesteryear but a contemporary threat. A liberal-left alliance is needed to counter it.