Paul Mason

#MeaningLeadership

If you missed last week’s Twitter chat on 21st century leadership we’ve put together a quick tour of the highlights. There were 179 participants and over 500 tweets so we’ve only captured a small snapshot here, but you can visit Twitter for the full discussion. Thank you to all those who shared…

Stella Rimington, Communists and the Labour Party leadership — a reply to Paul Mason.

Paul Mason’s Postcapitalism as a guide to new kinds of digital institutions

I’ve just finished Paul Mason’s Postcapitalism — A Guide To Our Future, I think one the few recent books about really radical institutional change that has won a wide audience. Mason’s first hand…

Justine Greening repeatedly justified expanding grammar schools yesterday as being good for parental choice; but only privileged parents desire the luxury of choice, everyone else needs to trust in the quality of ALL schools. Greening also batted away every piece of evidence against grammar schools with ad hominem attacks, stating that critics were…

A low-work society is only a dystopia if the social system is geared to distributing rewards via work.

Paul Mason, Automation may mean a post-work society but we shouldn’t be afraid

Paul Mason, The end of capitalism has begun (via johnborthwick)

The great technological advance of the early 21st century consists not only of new objects and processes, but of old ones made intelligent. The knowledge content of products is becoming more valuable than the physical…

Apocalypse now: has the next giant financial crash already begun?

How the #progressivealliance wins a majority

The idea of a progressive alliance of anti-Tory centre and left-of-centre parties is rapidly gaining ground. The Labour MP and Corbyn ally Clive Lewis recently wrote a column for the Guardian advocating cross-party alliances for a variety of purposes…

A response to Mason's post-capitalism

and some ideas about economic cycles

With the emergence of radical technological innovations and the emergence of associated markets, pioneering entrepeneurs are able to collect public and private investment. The resulting pioneering…

WHAT’S GOING ON

This post isn’t specifically about either Trump or populism, but it’s related to the broader forces driving both. Over the last couple of years the undercurrent of radical change drove me to spend a lot of free time reading as much as I can about the nature of the new global network. Just as after…