Labour’s Coalition Has Shattered, and Starmer Needs A Theory to Rebuild It
Labour bleeds four voters to the left for every one it loses to Reform — and cannot explain why.
Paul Mason
Britain Must Choose Europe—and Its Leaders Need to Admit It
The great powers have competing theories of victory; Britain's path leads inevitably to alignment with Europe.
Keir Starmer Finds His Fighting Spirit: Labour’s Blueprint to Beat Back the Far Right
With Reform surging ahead, Labour must win the narrative battle or face electoral oblivion by 2029.
Europe’s Far Right Copies Trump—And It’s Working
Leaked plans show Germany’s far right plotting a radical power grab with global implications.
Trump’s Tariff Gamble: Global Chaos or Calculated Concessions?
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.