Paul Mason
Exclusive: the true scale of the cuts to come
The scale of the cuts is the prime reason why no politician – Labour included – wants to spell them out.
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Paul Mason
The truth about low-pay Britain
Just when the media were starting to get all breathless about the “recovery” in real wages, the government’s gone and released data showing how truly and devastatingly low pay has become.
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Paul Mason
Tesco: how confrontation could have prevented a giant mess
The longer this goes on without answers, the resilience of hundreds of thousands of Tesco employees, who thought they were working for an iconic, stable British institution, will be tested.
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Paul Mason
Will Northern Soul the movie spark a cultural revival?
We, the mainly white descendants of the early cotton factory workforce, were playing the music of people descended from the slaves who had picked the cotton 150 years before.
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Paul Mason
Is Europe’s economic house of cards about to collapse?
Germany suffers its sharpest drop in industrial production since 2009 – boosting fears that the EU’s economic powerhouse could head for recession and trigger a crisis across Europe.
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Paul Mason
The two camps of Yes Scotland: nationalists and radicals
Alex Salmond’s dramatic move – after a night of drama in Scotland and a day of confusion in Westminster – adds another variable to the outcome of the constitutional crisis.
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Paul Mason
Ten conclusions from the #indyref
There’s enough results in to say a victory for no looks highly likely, so here are some initial thoughts…
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Paul Mason
Yes or no, this social movement is unlikely to go away
If it’s rough, and profane, it’s because that’s what street politics are like when ideologies collide. That’s what it was like when class defined British politics.
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Paul Mason
Celebrating Britishness: politics without the politicians
Maybe you can’t have a strident British nationalism. Maybe that’s the subtextual mistake all those lectern-banging politicians have been making.
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Paul Mason
The grassroots groups driving the yes campaign’s success
If the yes camp wins next Thursday it will be, in large part, because in addition to the SNP, this “non-party” broad coalition has inspired people.
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Paul Mason
Ukraine: how can the west force Russia to back down?
The UK is said to be pressing for the closure of the SWIFT bank-clearance service, which would be a big move.
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Paul Mason
Why Gaza will prove to be a game-changing event
I don’t have any answers, but anybody who thinks there can be anything “permanent” in the disorder thus created is crazy.
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Paul Mason
Troops ordered to pull back in Gaza, but the killing didn’t stop
The intensive care unit at Khan Younis hospital is so full, they have set up a makeshift one as the bombs pound nearby Rafah and its UN school.
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Paul Mason
Gaza-Israel live: strike on UN school
Live updates from the Channel 4 News team as the violence continues.
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Paul Mason
In the midst of Gaza’s bloody ‘truce’
I’ve just seen what a ceasefire means, on a road east of Khan Younis. It means young men getting carried along dusty roads in blankets, with sniper wounds.