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Paul Mason

Paul Mason is a journalist, writer and filmmaker. His latest book is How To Stop Fascism: History, Ideology, Resistance (Allen Lane). His most recent films include R is For Rosa, with the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung. He writes weekly for New Statesman and contributes to Der Freitag and Le Monde Diplomatique.

Europe’s Far Right Copies Trump—And It’s Working

Paul Mason

Leaked plans show Germany’s far right plotting a radical power grab with global implications.

Trump’s Tariff Gamble: Global Chaos or Calculated Concessions?

Paul Mason

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

Paul Mason

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

Paul Mason

Keir Starmer’s government finds itself on the frontline of a global power struggle.

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Draghi, Putin and economic warfare in Europe

Paul Mason

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

Paul Mason

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

Paul Mason

Whoever wins the US presidential election, Paul Mason writes, the EU has no option but to underpin its collective defence.

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Europe’s nightmare: an isolationist America

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A spectre is haunting Europe, Paul Mason writes. It is the spectre of Trumpism, mark two.

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A new world order: from warring states to citizens

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It will take decades of intellectual effort, Paul Mason writes, before a new world order emerges from the cumulative chaos.

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The answer to an anti-green backlash is to be redder

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Labour must not follow the Tories downwards, Paul Mason writes, as they grasp at electoral straws.

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On the wrong side of Britain’s history

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‘National Conservatism’, Paul Mason writes, fails to chime with British national-popular culture.

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Suave Sunak cold comfort for impoverished Britons

Paul Mason

Real incomes have been ravaged in the UK, Paul Mason writes. That’s why the strikes are popular.

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Behind Britain’s strike wave

Paul Mason

The Tory government, Paul Mason writes, is a victim of the skills shortages its ‘free markets’ have engendered.

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Pre-empting the coming world war

Paul Mason

Despite Ukraine, Paul Mason writes, Europe is still not awake to the security threat it faces.

Fresh-start Truss faces a ‘sudden stop’

Paul Mason

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

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