Paul Mason
@paulmason.bsky.social
📈Journalist 📖 Writer 🎥 Film-maker 🤷🏻♂️ Public Speaker 🌏 Security & Resilience 🚩Labour 🏭 Industrial strategist 🐾 Wheaten Terrier owner 📰 https://open.substack.com/pub/htsf?r=2sidg&utm_medium=ios
Just seen Die Walkure at Covent Garden ... Pappano's has been the Golden Age at ROH and this tops almost everything I've seen there over 4x decades
May 11, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Just seen Die Walkure at Covent Garden ... Pappano's has been the Golden Age at ROH and this tops almost everything I've seen there over 4x decades
Quick run before writing
March 15, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Quick run before writing
Yup. Let's help people by helping Ukraine kill some Russian fascists. Here's Tony Benn (RAF war veteran) on that subject....
February 18, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Yup. Let's help people by helping Ukraine kill some Russian fascists. Here's Tony Benn (RAF war veteran) on that subject....
5/ Has Labour been here before when in power? Yes it has. Here's Attlee in September 1950 - in a speech I suggest all Labour MPs sit down and read as they digest the impact of Hegseth/Trump's bombshell...
February 13, 2025 at 8:31 AM
5/ Has Labour been here before when in power? Yes it has. Here's Attlee in September 1950 - in a speech I suggest all Labour MPs sit down and read as they digest the impact of Hegseth/Trump's bombshell...
I really enjoyed Mariupol at the Cockpit Theatre
- the invasion of Ukraine explored with unflinching granularity... Photo (c) Tom Crooke thecockpit.org.uk/show/mariupol
- the invasion of Ukraine explored with unflinching granularity... Photo (c) Tom Crooke thecockpit.org.uk/show/mariupol
February 7, 2025 at 11:26 AM
I really enjoyed Mariupol at the Cockpit Theatre
- the invasion of Ukraine explored with unflinching granularity... Photo (c) Tom Crooke thecockpit.org.uk/show/mariupol
- the invasion of Ukraine explored with unflinching granularity... Photo (c) Tom Crooke thecockpit.org.uk/show/mariupol
Quel surprise? While socialists were fighting Brexit the clique around Corbyn were having dinner with far right Tories in a bid to get it over the line... did anyone speak up? Yep👇🏽
January 31, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Quel surprise? While socialists were fighting Brexit the clique around Corbyn were having dinner with far right Tories in a bid to get it over the line... did anyone speak up? Yep👇🏽
2/... sobering. China wants to dominate the world system by 2049 - and has a precise formula for measuring its national power against the rest... want to see it? .... 👇
January 27, 2025 at 12:27 PM
2/... sobering. China wants to dominate the world system by 2049 - and has a precise formula for measuring its national power against the rest... want to see it? .... 👇
January 4, 2025 at 5:15 PM
How to stop Musk. A playbook
January 4, 2025 at 5:15 PM
How to stop Musk. A playbook
The aurora over Pembrokeshire right now ...
January 1, 2025 at 5:54 PM
The aurora over Pembrokeshire right now ...
You would not know it from the relentless platforming of the far right on mainstream TV - but Britain is an overwhelmingly Antifa, environmentalist, feminist country and the future looks very socialist as well... that's why we should be dreaming of a progressive century @yougov.co.uk
December 10, 2024 at 3:15 PM
You would not know it from the relentless platforming of the far right on mainstream TV - but Britain is an overwhelmingly Antifa, environmentalist, feminist country and the future looks very socialist as well... that's why we should be dreaming of a progressive century @yougov.co.uk
In 1981 I bought this infuriating but classic recipe book. I've never stopped using it since ... today it's boeuf Bourgignon... and my commis chef is happy with the straggly bits...
December 1, 2024 at 4:35 PM
In 1981 I bought this infuriating but classic recipe book. I've never stopped using it since ... today it's boeuf Bourgignon... and my commis chef is happy with the straggly bits...
Who buys farmland? Only 40% of it is being bought by farmers. Industry source tells me: what this graph doesn't show is the sheer scale of foreign buyers thru UK shell companies...
November 20, 2024 at 9:19 AM
Who buys farmland? Only 40% of it is being bought by farmers. Industry source tells me: what this graph doesn't show is the sheer scale of foreign buyers thru UK shell companies...
It's Year Zero - give 'em a follow... @uk-gov.bsky.social
November 17, 2024 at 10:12 AM
It's Year Zero - give 'em a follow... @uk-gov.bsky.social
4/ ... this all the "modelling" done by HMG was self delusion. 4/5 of all cars sold are used. If you're asking ppl to buy overpriced new cars and telling them in 3 years time they will not hold their value on the used car market that's two, not one, major hit to household finances ...
November 17, 2024 at 8:45 AM
4/ ... this all the "modelling" done by HMG was self delusion. 4/5 of all cars sold are used. If you're asking ppl to buy overpriced new cars and telling them in 3 years time they will not hold their value on the used car market that's two, not one, major hit to household finances ...
2/ ... it was brought in when the Tories pushed the 2030 deadline for banning new petrol cars back to 2035. Central assumption was that consumers will buy EVs if we force manufacturers to make them ...there was extensive consultation...
November 17, 2024 at 8:38 AM
2/ ... it was brought in when the Tories pushed the 2030 deadline for banning new petrol cars back to 2035. Central assumption was that consumers will buy EVs if we force manufacturers to make them ...there was extensive consultation...
The Zero EV Mandate - which will trash parts of the UK car industry unless either relaxed or subsidised - is a classically mis-designed Tory "green" measure and a microcosm of what's wrong with UK climate strategy... 1/
November 17, 2024 at 8:36 AM
The Zero EV Mandate - which will trash parts of the UK car industry unless either relaxed or subsidised - is a classically mis-designed Tory "green" measure and a microcosm of what's wrong with UK climate strategy... 1/
Caught the last night of Emma Rice's Buddha of Suburbia at the Barbican - superb! (Am going to post life stuff here again like the old days, while it lasts 🥂) 🕺🪩🎤
November 16, 2024 at 11:03 PM
Caught the last night of Emma Rice's Buddha of Suburbia at the Barbican - superb! (Am going to post life stuff here again like the old days, while it lasts 🥂) 🕺🪩🎤
The #Orca story finally made Britain's newspaper of record
May 27, 2023 at 6:21 AM
The #Orca story finally made Britain's newspaper of record