Paul Mason, author at Social Europe • Page 2 of 3

Fresh-start Truss faces a ‘sudden stop’

The UK is staring into an economic abyss for which it is wholly unprepared.

The grandiose promises Johnson makes to survive, Paul Mason writes, rely on a state like those ... in the European Union.

Russia has upended the old rules-based order, Paul Mason writes. Europe needs to shape a new one.

The Conservative Party used to be famed for its pragmatic retention of power, Paul Mason writes. It’s lost that muscle memory.

Paul Mason finds the democratic world in the very disarray the authoritarian in the Kremlin has sought.

Despite petrol shortages and empty shelves, Labour is adrift—and Johnson may press the Northern Ireland protocol nuclear button.

A by-election in northern England highlights the corrosive atrophying of the UK body politic, Paul Mason writes.

Fascism is not just sepia images of yesteryear but a contemporary threat. A liberal-left alliance is needed to counter it.

Labour’s electoral debacle, Paul Mason writes, epitomises European social democracy’s coalition-building challenge. It just doesn’t see it that way.

Paul Mason finds in the UK’s foreign and defence review a wilful refusal of its natural European engagement.

Paul Mason writes that a Biden US presidency allied to an EU pursuing ‘strategic autonomy’ leaves a ‘sovereign’ UK with a bit-part role.

The most frightening thing is not the UK government’s end-game strategy, Paul Mason writes. It’s that there isn’t one.

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.

Paul Mason bemoans how ‘Brexit’ has left the UK a beached whale in a world in need of technological regulation driven by European values.

In a nightmare-scenario 'Brexit' denouement, the UK government provokes no-deal chaos from which it hopes to profit after its Covid-19 shambles.