Paul Mason
27 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
Read the full article17 December 2024
The Labour project just became real
Labour's energy policy is absolutely critical to reviving growth, meeting net zero and keeping the far right out of power
Read the full article11 December 2024
Starmer gets it: this is the age of tough liberalism
Most Labour supporters don’t realise how muscular their own tradition will have to become to survive what’s coming
Read the full article02 December 2024
UK soft power failed with Putin – it’s time for the hard option
Britain and Europe are up against an alliance of evil. Now is the time to resist Russia, and for the UK to lead by example
Read the full article26 November 2024
Tusk is the Donald we all need most
We cannot finesse our way out of the problem that the American people have swung isolationist
Read the full article21 November 2024
Will this fiasco be the last Cop?
Baku has been a spectacle of greed and entitlement. A binding agreement on phasing out fossil fuels would be better
Read the full article18 November 2024
Biden’s wake-up call to Europe
The Ukraine missile strikes he has permitted won’t change the war – but they must change minds in the EU and UK
Read the full article13 November 2024
The next two months will define Starmer
Donald Trump’s election has called into question the Euro-Atlanticism elements of Labour foreign policy
Read the full article07 November 2024
Kemi Badenoch is mediocrity on steroids
Badenoch, for all her anti-woke diatribes, is the wrong kind of Tory rightist. She will lead them defeat, and quite possibly eclipse by Reform
Read the full article06 November 2024
America is in the grip of the fascist process
Trump’s return to power has been helped by the complete failure of the American left
Read the full article30 October 2024
The King must lead the preparations for reparations
The global north needs to be building friendships with as many of our former colonies as possible
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