Question: Who was the first revolutionary communist? Answer: François-Noël Babeuf.... find out why in my new book Reds: A Global History of Communism... preorder here with 50% off! t.co/MqIkAeaWa1
Paul Mason
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📈Journalist 📖 Writer 🎥 Film-maker 🤷🏻♂️ Public Speaker 🌏 Security & Resilience 🚩Labour 🏭 Industrial strategist 🐾 Wheaten Terrier 📖 https://t.co/BjHB4lzjMG
A new threat assessment says the country’s water system faces a new, more troubling level of threat – the only answer is nationalisation ✏️ @paulmason.bsky.social
The UK government warns there’s a 25% chance of catastrophic water failure
A new threat assessment says the country’s water system faces a new, more troubling level of threat – the only answer is nationalisation
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🕯 🇺🇦 As a result of the Russian strike on the Kyiv region, Valentyna Savitska, the wife of the head of @stratcomcentre.bsky.social and our friend Ihor Solovey, was killed. We extend our sincere condolences! 💔 She headed Center for International Cooperation and Strategic Communications…
Author @paulmason.bsky.social on his time in the wild west of Russia in the immediate aftermath of the fall of the USSR, and his motivations for writing Reds: A Global History of Communism Read more: https://shorturl.at/J3QGP
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BREAKING: Waterstones are offering 25% off preorders of my book Reds: A Global History of Communism - click on the link and use the code SUMMER26 - offer available until this Friday... www.waterstones.com/book/reds/pa...
What's wrong with UK strategic culture? Ten bad habits and false assumptions driving British geostrategy in a fragmenting global order: www.geostrategy.org.uk/all-research...
Why Britain’s strategists need to wake up and stop living in the past • Council on Geostrategy
Benedict Baxendale-Smith and Paul Mason outline structural habits and false assumptions within the United Kingdom’s strategic culture.
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Trump needed a win at NATO because he's losing in so many other spheres of foreign policy ... www.thenewworld.co.uk/paul-mason-t...
The extent of Trump’s foreign policy humiliation is now clear
Disruption has failed – and America looks diminished and declining
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I thought that Guardian headline about £15bn extra defence spending "costing jobs" looked strange ... then I looked at the numbers...🤦 open.substack.com/pub/htsf/p/n...
No, Labour's defence plan will not 'cost 10,000 jobs'
Defence is a public good: it creates jobs, economic value and security. Learn to count.
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My story from the Donbas has been published in French magazine Eurozine www.eurozine.com/dispatch-fro...
Dispatch from Ukraine
When citizens are the targets of direct military action, humanity suffers alongside those under fire. First-hand insights of travelling to Ukraine’s war zones are reminders of just how close Russia’s ...
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Burnham could end Treasury stagnation with a single department that centralised water, energy, transport and telecoms ✏️ @paulmason.bsky.social
A Critical National Infrastructure superministry could fix Britain
Burnham could end Treasury stagnation with a single department that centralised water, energy, transport and telecoms
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Our next edition is on sale 🗞️ The unravelling of Nigel Farage Featuring @jamesrball.com, Lucy Reade, @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social, @paulmason.bsky.social and more Subscribe: buff.ly/1wNQMSb
I feel very moved by this decision in part because of my work focusing on how victims of domestic abuse continue to be criminalised www.theguardian.com/law/2026/jul...
Ruth Ellis, last woman hanged in UK, granted posthumous conditional pardon
Ellis, 28, was executed in 1955 after fatally shooting her abusive partner David Blakely
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Offtopic but glorious - I was at #Longborough to see Tristan und Isolde yesterday and despite all the daft bow ties and stifling heat it was the best performance I've ever seen (and I'm lucky enough to have seen the greats at Covent Garden) kudos to Peter Wedd and Catherine Woodward #mildundleise ..
We have a very limited number of proofs available for Reds by @paulmason.bsky.social It tells the global history of communism, going beyond the turmoil of the 20th century, exploring communist ideas, movements, & regimes. Request #RedsPaulMason now: https://forms.cloud.microsoft/e/Ja8NcWLsSB
A physicist's manifesto for appeasement - how Carlo Rovelli's new book scrambles the 1930s and ignores the evidence that nuclear deterrence works... open.substack.com/pub/htsf/p/a...
A Physicist's Manifesto for Appeasement
Carlo Rovelli's call for Europe to disarm is based on a revisionist reading of the 1930s
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I can't wait for this inspiring and poignant book: He Died In My Arms - an oral history of nursing in the UK AIDS epidemic - out Feb 2027. Preorder here amzn.eu/d/0fQ8zsJe
He died in my arms: An oral history of nursing in the UK AIDS epidemic
Buy He died in my arms: An oral history of nursing in the UK AIDS epidemic Standard Edition by Jane Bruton, Sian Edwards, Martin Jones (ISBN: 9781807073435) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.
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#OnThisDay 1953 workers in East Berlin begin two day uprising against Stalinist rule. More in Reds: A Global History of Communism www.amazon.co.uk/Reds-History...
Labour must change the fiscal rules: borrow to invest in Defence and Resilience, join the DSRB, switch Premium Bonds and the National Wealth Fund to security-related objectives... my response to John Healey's resignation.... open.substack.com/pub/htsf/p/l...
Labour Must Borrow to Invest in Defence
John Healey's resignation fuels demands for a U-turn before the Ankara summit
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How the far right is attacking your mind ... and earning money from incitement ... www.thenewworld.co.uk/paul-mason-h...
How the global far right is attacking your mind
A brutal murder in Southampton has exposed the way political extremists influence and distort politics in other countries
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Karl Marx was a humanist. More in my book Reds: A Global History of Communism ...
Just finished a 3-hour stint on BBC World Service and can never resist a selfie with the patron saint of anti-authoritarian left wing journalism ... great working with @hannahluci.bsky.social @krupapadhy.bsky.social and @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social
#OnThisDay 1989 - something happened that 1.3bn citizens of the PRC are not supposed to know about, or even search for on the internet. More on the #TiananmenSquareMassacre in Reds: A Global History of Communism geni.us/Redscovrev
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The Intelligence and Security Committee demanded a full inquiry into Russian meddling in British politics. It never happened. A new report makes clear that it needs to happen – now ✏️ @paulmason.bsky.social
Why have we let Putin get away with it for so long?
The Intelligence and Security Committee demanded a full inquiry into Russian meddling in British politics. It never happened. A new report makes clear that it needs to happen – now
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Why there should be an independent inquiry into Russia's role in Brexit: it's not just a historic issue - as the prospect of return approaches, we need an account of what really happened... www.thenewworld.co.uk/paul-mason-w...
Why have we let Putin get away with it for so long?
The Intelligence and Security Committee demanded a full inquiry into Russian meddling in British politics. It never happened. A new report makes clear that it needs to happen – now
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⚡️St. Petersburg Oil Terminal hit in major Ukrainian attack day after Russia's mass strike on Kyiv. The attack began the morning of the 2026 St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, an annual conference of business leaders and government officials hosted by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
St. Petersburg Oil Terminal hit in major Ukrainian attack day after Russia's mass strike on Kyiv
The attack coincided with the beginning of the 2026 St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, an annual conference of business leaders and government officials hosted by Russian President Vladimir ...
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Kicking Defence Off Campus? Cui Bono? Why making the universities part of the defence tech industrial base is a solid socialist idea... open.substack.com/pub/htsf/p/k...
Kicking Defence Off Campus? Cui Bono?
The Defence Universities Alliance is a brilliant Labour idea inspired by a visionary Liberal peer
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