Paul Mason
22 July 2025
How to beat Putin
Europe could save Ukraine and defeat a dictator by shutting down Russia’s shadow fleet and scaling up its own defence production. But will wary voters accept rising tension as the price of peace?
Read the full article12 July 2025
Corbyn, Sultana and the politics of inevitable failure
If they ever manage to set up their new hard left party, there will only be one winner – Nigel Farage
Read the full article09 July 2025
Palestine Action is bad for Palestinians
The activist group has fallen foul of UK anti-terror laws – good. Because the radical, violent action it carries out harms the very causes its claims to support
Read the full article02 July 2025
The silent threat of China
Beijing will have watched the US and Israeli strikes on Iran, and will have learned a dangerous lesson
Read the full article02 July 2025
Can we replace capitalism?
American journalist John Cassidy explains why those who despise this unstable system seem doomed to failure
Read the full article19 June 2025
Iran, Trump and the slide into global anarchy
The US and Israel have broken away from the international order and are pushing the world towards anarchy. The rest of the west must do all it can to resist
Read the full article17 June 2025
The lessons of Greece’s summer of tears
Ten years on, the country’s treatment in the midst of financial crisis remains a stain on European democracy
Read the full article11 June 2025
My year of London by Lime bike
E-bikes are changing life in the city – but not in the way right wing protesters imagine
Read the full article05 June 2025
Nigel Farage is deep in the crypto-crapto
It is the preferred currency of organised criminals, terrorists – and now the Reform Party is getting in on the act
Read the full article03 June 2025
Britain enters a new nuclear age
The government has decided that the country will rearm – this strategic review is just the beginning
Read the full article27 May 2025
From tariffs to bonds – a new crisis is looming
Trump and Putin have shaken the bond markets. Reeves must now take radical steps to react
Read the full article21 May 2025
We must take a nuclear leap into the unknown
Our political class is racing to catch up with a changed world of defence procurement
Read the full article09 May 2025
Starmer’s realism won’t go far in fantasyland politics
Starmer is doing deals as old certainties vanish. But frustrated voters will be hard to convince
Read the full article02 May 2025
How the Tory party can survive political extinction
Badenoch is receiving extensive media training in an attempt to soften her image. But her image is not the problem
Read the full article30 April 2025
The Trump who cried wolf on Wall Street
Donald Trump swore he would face down the world – then blinked first. His aura is damaged forever
Read the full article23 April 2025
Britain needs a new national story
This could be the only thing that could unite a nation divided on all fronts
Read the full article09 April 2025
Trump’s tariff disaster has wrecked Reform
MAGA’s trade war has abruptly silenced Farage and other useful idiots who once echoed his agenda
Read the full article03 April 2025
Trump’s tariffs – America has used this weapon before
The last time the US imposed blanket tariffs it led to global economic and political disaster. This time could be just as bad. How can the rest of the world defend itself?
Read the full article01 April 2025
Rachel Reeves’s impossible spring statement
In a week where the chancellor has found herself beleaguered, my message to her is: rearm and the economy will grow
Read the full article25 March 2025
The key to Russia lies in Beijing
Once the war ends, the Russian economy will deflate and become entirely reliant on China
Read the full article14 March 2025
Pick Putin’s pockets to pay for the war against him
The case for confiscating $300bn worth of frozen Russian assets is clear
Read the full article10 March 2025
The man with no plan heads for recession
Donald Trump’s economic chaos is not impressing the markets or consumers – and things are going to get worse
Read the full article28 February 2025
Starmer’s make-or-break moment
What happens next will define the prime minister’s legacy – and shape the futures of Britain and Ukraine
Read the full article25 February 2025
To rearm properly, Britain must borrow
Spending 2.5% of GDP on defence is a good start – but it’s not enough
Read the full article13 February 2025
What Trump’s Ukraine betrayal means for Britain
This Munich moment means Starmer must borrow to rearm, then forge stronger ties with the EU
Read the full article11 February 2025
Three steps to help Starmer beat Reform
The prime minister needs to crack down on crime, set and meet a fair migration target and bring in a UK ID card
Read the full article01 February 2025
Planning for an American collapse
Trump is already doing colossal damage to the US and sending his allies into a spin. Can Europe and China deal with America’s wild political volatility?
Read the full article23 January 2025
After Southport, we must change the contempt law
The right wing are lying about a cover-up. But the information vacuum which allowed fascists to foment mass violence can’t be allowed to continue
Read the full article16 January 2025
Now Britain must play its part in stabilising Gaza
This brutal, bloody conflict shows the dangers of our new, multipolar world
Read the full article11 January 2025
If the facts change, Rachel Reeves can change her mind
Whatever the chancellor has to do to maintain fiscal credibility has to be done, but there is no reason it has to be spending cuts
Read the full article07 January 2025
We must make a better job of the way we work
Labour promised to produce the highest growth in the G7. But, few people understand what it will take to do that
Read the full article29 December 2024
Five radical steps that will make Starmer beat Farage
Labour can only put its stumbling start behind it if it constructs a compelling narrative to match the one peddled by populists
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