Paul Mason

London

Journalist, The New European. Author of Postcapitalism, How To Stop Fascism. Assoc. Fellow at Council on Geostrategy - find me over at BlueSky

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Scunthorpe Crisis Is Not A One-Off

1 month ago | paulmasonnews.medium.com | Paul Mason

Get ready for state intervention to save UK strategic capacityThere were dramatic scenes on Saturday when steelworkers at Scunthorpe, home to Britain’s last two functional blast furnaces, locked Chinese managers out of the plant — after claiming they were about to sabotage production.
Trump Brings Britain’s ‘Moron Premium’ to the U.S. Economy

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Paul Mason

When Donald Trump launched his tariff war on April 2, lawmakers in Europe struggled to understand the strategy. Was it a bluff, or did he really mean to collapse global trade, stock markets, and the Western alliance in one reckless game of 4-D chess? On April 9, however, the president discovered something that we in the United Kingdom already know: Against the bond market, there is only 2-D chess, and you always lose. Because the Brits have been here before.
Trump's Tariff Gamble: Global Chaos or Calculated Concessions?

1 month ago | socialeurope.eu | Paul Mason

A looming trade war and security threats leave European leaders scrambling to decipher the American president's true intentions.
Lantern Partners With StepChange as Charity Warns Cost of Living Crisis is Plunging People Into Debt

1 month ago | ffnews.com | Lauren Towner |Paul Mason |Vikki Brownridge

Yorkshire-based debt management provider, Lantern, has partnered with StepChange to support Debt Awareness Week (DAW) after research from the debt charity found the cost-of-living crisis continues to exacerbate consumers’ financial situations. DAW is StepChange’s annual flagship consumer campaign, which began this week and will run until Sunday 30 March.
Paris, Summer, 1980…

Jan 23, 2025 | paulmasonnews.medium.com | Paul Mason

A bit of life-writing to celebrate a big number…Paul Mason·Follow9 min read·--Lutte Ouvrière Fete, 1980 © Paul MasonI’m in Paris to celebrate a big birthday, so it’s nearly 45 years since I first visited the city. It was May 1980, and I was going to the Fête de Lutte Ouvrière. I was given a slab of left wing newspapers to take there and briefed on what to expect by my comrades, in a Camberwell pub called The Hermit’s Cave.
The Deep Fears Stoking British Fascism…

Jan 8, 2025 | paulmasonnews.medium.com | Paul Mason

Musk aims to radicalise Reform’s base and degrade our democracyPaul Mason·Follow17 min read·--I don’t usually do trigger warnings, but in this post I am going to be talking about gang rape, genocidal thought and fascism, and if you’re one of the many people justifiably freaked out by Elon Musk’s attack on British democracy, I apologise for adding to your anxiety. It first appeared as paid contact on my Substack Conflict & Democracy.
Decolonising Syria: the tankie meltdown explained

Dec 8, 2024 | paulmasonnews.medium.com | Paul Mason

Why the pro-Putin left is in mourning over AssadPaul Mason·Follow8 min read·--Syrian Girl is so angry she wants to gas the Israelis. Richard Medhurst is convinced the Syrian revolution is a NATO/Israeli “occupation”. Craig Murray thinks it’s a tragedy that Assad’s “flawed but pluralist regime” is gone. Vijay Prashad predicts it will all end like Libya. It’s only a few hours since Bashar Al Assad fled Damascus but there is a full-scale tankie meltdown under way. And rightly so.
Getting Industrial Strategy Right

Nov 24, 2024 | paulmasonnews.medium.com | Paul Mason

Labour has one chance to solve the execution problem…Paul Mason·Follow14 min read·--Today is the deadline for responses to the Labour government’s Industrial Strategy Green Paper. Entitled Invest 2035, it is an outline of the approach the government tends to take in pursuit of its mission to deliver the highest GDP growth in the G7 by 2029. It designates Defence as one of eight priority areas for state intervention.
Trump: Harsh lessons for the British left

Nov 12, 2024 | paulmasonnews.medium.com | Paul Mason

Neither identity politics nor ‘neoliberalism in rehab’ will defeat the far rightPaul Mason·Follow18 min read·--There have been some ridiculously bad takes on Trump’s victory, especially from the “anti-imperialist” left — both here and in America. In their alternative universe, Trump won because Kamala failed to back students waving Hamas flags on the elite campuses of America.
To Avoid Another Munich, Europe Must Act to Secure Ukraine

Nov 10, 2024 | paulmasonnews.medium.com | Paul Mason

Open Letter. Sunday 3 November 2024Paul Mason·Follow10 min read·--[This is the text of an open letter issued by more than 100 senior military and security experts, politicians and diplomats on 3 November, together with the latest signatories.