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Paul Mason (born 23 January 1960) is a British journalist. He writes a weekly column at The New European and monthly columns for Social Europe and Frankfurter Rundschau. He was Business Editor of the BBC Two television programme Newsnight from 2001, and Culture and Digital Editor of Channel 4 News from 2013, becoming the programme's Economics Editor in 2014. He left Channel 4 in 2016. He is the author of several books, and a visiting professor at the University of Wolverhampton. Early life and education Mason was born in Leigh, Lancashire. His father, John Mason (1927–86), was a lorry driver for Ward & Goldstone Ltd. His mother, Julia (née Lewis, born 1935), was headmistress of St Margaret Mary's Primary School, Hindley Green. One grandparent was a miner and another was a Lithuanian-Jewish violinist. Mason was educated at St Joseph's RC Primary School in Leigh and Thornleigh Salesian College in Bolton, which was a grammar school when Mason attended in the 1970s. He graduated from the University of Sheffield with a degree in music and politics in 1981 and trained to be a music teacher at London University Institute of Education, after which he undertook postgraduate research into the music of the Second Viennese School at the University of Sheffield until 1984. Mason lived in Leicester from 1982 to 1988, working as a music teacher and lecturer in music at Loughborough University. Journalism and broadcasting Mason has lived in London since 1988, becoming a freelance journalist around 1991. From 1995 to 2001 he worked for Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier, on titles including Contract Journal, Community Care and Computer Weekly, of which he was deputy editor. In August 2001, Mason joined the BBC Two television programme Newsnight as Business Editor. His first live appearance on Newsnight was on the day of the September 11 attacks in 2001. Mason wrote a blog for Newsnight called "Idle Scrawl". In May 2007, Mason's book Live Working or Die Fighting: How the Working Class Went Global was published by Harvill Secker. In June 2007, Mason presented Spinning Yarns, a four-part series on the history of the cotton industry for BBC Radio Four. Mason appeared in a five-part BBC series Credit Crash Britain, first broadcast on BBC Two on 30 October 2008. In January 2012 Mason's book Why It's Kicking Off Everywhere: The New Global Revolutions was published in paperback by Verso. Mason attended the Wigan Casino in his youth as a follower of Northern Soul and hosted a documentary about the Northern Soul scene for the BBC's The Culture Show in September 2013. In August 2013, it was announced that Mason would join Channel 4 News as its culture and digital editor. In May 2014, it was announced that he would become the programme's Economics Editor at the beginning of the following month, replacing Faisal Islam. Mason announced in February 2016 that he was leaving his position at Channel 4 News in favour of freelancing so he could engage more fully in debates without the constraint of impartiality observed by broadcasters in the UK. His four-part documentary series #ThisIsACoup covered the 2015 Greek crisis from inside and outside the corridors of power. His documentary series K is for Karl commemorated the ideas of Karl Marx on the 200th anniversary of Marx’s birth. His series, R is for Rosa, was commissioned by the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation to mark the centenary of the Polish-German revolutionary. Playwright In 2017, Mason wrote Divine Chaos of Starry Things, a two act play looking at the life of Louise Michel and other exiles from the 1871 Paris Commune in exile in New Caledonia. The Guardian described it as "a frustrating, clunky but always intelligent drama focusing on the women in New Caledonia, and particularly the revolutionary Louise Michel. While her comrades take refuge in drink and hopes of appeal against their sentences, Michel keeps the red flag flying. She recognises that the oppression of the Kanaks and of the Parisian working class are one and the same". Awards Mason won the Wincott Prize for Business Journalism in 2003, the Workworld Broadcaster of the Year in 2004, and the Diageo African Business Reporting Award in 2007. In 2020 he was awarded the Erich Fromm Prize. Political consulting Mason is the sole director of a political consulting and media firm called Exarcheia Ltd. At least one member of the shadow front bench has been reported (via the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority) to have used Exarcheia's services in 2021. Controversies Antisemitism In March 2018, it was reported that Mason had been a member of the Facebook group 'Palestine Live', where antisemitic posts were widely shared. He said that while he was a member of the group, he was added to it in 2014 without his knowledge by someone else, and that he does not read or endorse the content of all Facebook groups of which he is part. Mason suggested the group be closed and investigated if it contained antisemitism. Anti-Catholicism In January 2020, Tom Harris and Harvard student Portia Berry-Kilby accused Paul Mason of anti-Catholicism after he tweeted "I don't want Labour's policy on reproductive rights dictated by the Vatican, thanks", in response to comments made by Labour leadership candidate Rebecca Long-Bailey on abortion during a meeting with representatives of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Salford. Politics Mason is a former member of the Workers' Power group. He responded to an interviewer from the Evening Standard in 2011: "It's on Wikipedia that I was, so it must be true. It's fair to say I was a Leftie activist. What my politics are now are very complicated." In an interview with The Independent in 2015, he described himself as having been a "supporter" of the group. In a speech in 2015 marking the publication of Naomi Klein's book This Changes Everything, he declared that "capitalism is dying". Mason has called for an alliance of "bond traders from Canary Wharf, arm in arm with placard-carrying Trots" against right-wing populist groups such as UKIP. Mason later described UKIP voters in unfavourable terms, stating, "They are toe-rags, basically. They are the bloke who nicks your bike". In 2016, Mason distanced himself from his former involvement in far-left Trotskyist politics, by saying that he no longer holds such views and identifies with a "radical social democracy". Responding to comments by the then-Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne, he said: As to Mr Osborne's claim that I am "revolutionary Marxist" it is completely inaccurate. I am radical social democrat who favours the creation of a peer-to-peer sector (co-ops, open source etc) alongside the market and the state, as part of a long transition to a post-capitalist economy. There's a comprehensive critique of Bolshevism in my latest book, Postcapitalism: A Guide to Our Future. Mason subsequently wrote positively about Marxism: in a piece for New Statesman published in May 2018 for .... Discover the Paul Mason popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Paul Mason books.
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Sleeping Every Sycamore Standing
Paul Mason Leiby, Jr"Sleeping Every Sycamore Standing" is P. M. Leiby's eighth book of poetry, preceded by "How the Bakery Pronounces Drab," "Of the Body Air," and others. P. M. Leiby brings to bear a...
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My Ballerina Sister
Angela KanterEmmy loves ballet but she isn't old enough to dance in her sister Charlotte's class. Then one day when she comes to watch the lesson she can't resist joining in. Before...
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After Work
Helen Hester & Nick SrnicekA timely manifesto for a feminist postwork politicsDoes it ever feel like you have no free time? You come home after work and instead of finding a space of rest and relaxation...
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The Kid
Kevin LewisKevin Lewis grew up on a council estate in South London. Beaten and starved by his parents, ignored by the social services and bullied at school, he was offered a chance to escape ...
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Say Nothing
Josephine DuthieSay Nothing is the moving true story of four neglected siblings who were taken into care following the breakdown of their parents' marriage. Sent to a small croft in the northeast ...
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In The Footsteps Of Alexander The Great
Michael WoodMichael Wood retraces Alexander the Greats amazing journey from Greece to India, searching for the truth behind the legend and experiencing the tremendous scale of his achievements...
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Twilight at Blueberry Barrens
Colleen CobleUSA TODAY Bestseller!“Incredible storytelling and intricately drawn characters. You won’t want to miss Twilight at Blueberry Barrens.” Brenda Novak, New York Times and USA Today be...
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Sonny Bill Williams
Sonny Bill Williams & Alan DuffSonny Bill Williams (SBW) is a once in a hundredyear athlete with immense sporting talent in Rugby League, Rugby Union and Boxing. Sonny Bill has built an incredible career and spo...
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Poetry from the Future
Srećko Horvat'A compelling vision, an urgent necessity, and not beyond reach' Noam ChomskyThe past is forgotten, and the future is without hope. Dystopia has become a reality. This is the new ...
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How To Start a Business without Any Money
Rachel BridgeDo you dream of starting your own business but don’t have any money? What if you could set up a venture with nothing but a good business idea and the determination to make it work?...
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Daylight Robbery
Dominic FrisbyDeath and taxes are our inevitable fate. We've been told this since the beginning of civilisation. But what if we stopped to question our antiquated system? Is it fair? And is it c...
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The Money Machine
Philip CogganWhat happens in the City has never affected us moreIn this excellent guide, now fully revised and updated, leading financial journalist Philip Coggan cuts through the headlines, th...
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Postcapitalismo
Paul MasonLos pilares del modelo capitalista se están derrumbando. Por una parte, el triunfo del neoliberalismo ha minimizado a la clase obrera como agente del cambio político y económico y,...
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The Apple Revolution
Luke DormehlOn 26 May, 2010 Apple Inc. passed Microsoft in valuation as the world's largest technology company. Its consumer electronic products ranging from computers to mobile phones to por...
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Nothing Significant To Report
Dario NustriniLaughoutloud yarns from a soldier in the New Zealand ArmyWhen new recruit Dario Nustrini's head was freshly shaved in preparation for the army, he knew nothing about what training ...
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No Way Home
Sue MartinSue Martin was not three years old when she began life at her first children's home: a home that could at best be described as cold and regimented; at worst, torturous and terrifyi...
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The Invisible Hand
Adam SmithAdam Smith’s landmark treatise on the free market paved the way for modern capitalism, arguing that competition is the engine of a productive society, and that selfinterest will ev...
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Flowers in the Attic
V.C. AndrewsA major Lifetime movie eventthe novel that captured the world's imagination and earned V.C. Andrews a fiercely devoted fanbase. Book One of the Dollanganger Family series.At the to...
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Office Without Power
Tony Benn'The detail of these diaries, and their comprehensive candour, offer unprecedented insights into the personal behaviour of many senior Labour politicians... The most readable polit...
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Greed Is Dead
Paul Collier & John KayTwo of the UK's leading economists call for an end to extreme individualism as the engine of prosperity 'provocative but thoughtprovoking and nuanced' TelegraphThroughout history, ...
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Tales of Hoffmann
E.T.A. Hoffmann, R. J. Hollingdale, Stella Humphries, Vernon Humphries & Sally HaywardThis selection of Hoffmann's finest short stories vividly demonstrates his intense imagination and preoccupation with the supernatural, placing him at the forefront of both surreal...
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The End Of Globalization
Alan RugmanProfessor Alan Rugman is one of the world's leading academics in the field of international business and strategy. In The End of Globalization he argues that we are currently witn...
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Monash
Grantlee KiezaStunning trade paperback edition of Grantlee Kieza's bestselling biography of Australia's greatest generalIt's December 1918 and the world war is over. General Sir John Monash atte...
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The Econocracy
Joe Earle, Cahal Moran & Zach Ward-PerkinsA century ago, the idea of 'the economy' didn't exist. Now economics is the supreme ideology of our time, with its own rules and language. The trouble is, most of us can't speak it...
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Truth
John D. CaputoIn the first in a new series of easily digestible, commutelengthbooks of original philosophy, renowned thinker John D. Caputo explores the many notions of 'truth', and what it real...
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Never Call Me Mummy Again
Peter KilbyThe heartbreaking but inspiring true story of a childhood of abuse, and finding a way out of the darkness. Peter was just a toddler when his mother tragically died after trying to ...
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Kubrick
Robert P. Kolker & Nathan AbramsThe definitive biography of the creator of 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Shining, and A Clockwork Orange, presenting the most indepth portrait yet of the groundbreaking filmmaker.The ...
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Por un futuro brillante
Paul MasonEntre el reportaje periodístico, el ensayo, la crítica cultural y la historia social, Por un futuro brillante se presenta como una defensa radical y apasionada del ser humano, de n...
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Linescapes
Hugh Warwick‘Glorious… Political, passionate, perceptive’ Robert MacfarlaneAn eyeopening exploration of the lines that cut through our countryside, from hedges to railways, and a passionate ma...
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Paper Tigers
Nicholas ColeridgePaper Tigers is a riveting, authoritative and indepth study of newspaper barons of the world – men and women who wield immense power, and whose everchanging media empires make comp...
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Too Many Tears
Fiona DoyleAs heard on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour'Ireland and its people know that Fiona Doyle is a trailblazer' Sunday Independent'A wrenching read ... Doyle resists giving her story a Holly...
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Capital
Karl Marx & Ben Fowkes'A groundbreaking work of economic analysis. It is also a literary masterpice' Francis Wheen, GuardianOne of the most notorious and influential works of modern times, Capital is an...
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The Mean Doors
Paul Mason Leiby, Jr"The Mean Doors" is P. M. Leiby's third book of poetry, preceded by "Goodbye, The Unused Portion of Hello," and "A Boy Swept Under the Rug." P. M. Leiby brings to bear a love of li...
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Less is More
Jason Hickel'A powerfully disruptive book for disrupted times ... If you're looking for transformative ideas, this book is for you.' KATE RAWORTH, economist and author of Doughnut EconomicsA F...
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Mummy is a Killer
Nikkia Roberson'Why did you leave me? Why did you get messed up with all of those drugs? Why did you kill my brother and sister? Didn’t you love us enough?'Nikkia Roberson has been asking these q...
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Flinders
Grantlee KiezaThe extraordinary life, loves and voyages of the man who put Australia on the mapIn 1810, Matthew Flinders made his final voyage home to his beloved wife, Ann, his body ravaged by ...
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Baking for Pleasure
Ravneet Gill“An indulgent pleasure trip of sweet and savoury treats for all to enjoy.” – Michel Roux Jr“Another beauty of a book.” – Ruby BhogalThis book is all about baking for the pure joy o...
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Into the Red
John WilliamsAfter a decade in football wilderness, weighed down by the legacy of unmatched domestic and European successes in the 1970s and ’80s, Liverpool Football Club – under new French coa...
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Four Cornered Earth
Paul Mason Leiby, Jr"Four Cornered Earth" is P. M. Leiby's sixth chapbook of poetry, preceded by "Of the Body Air," "They Walked Until Autumn," "Goodbye, the Unused Portion of Hello," and others. P. M...
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The Hummingbird Bakery Life is Sweet
Tarek MaloufThe brilliant new book from Britain’s favourite bakery – packed with recipes for extraspecial treats and surprises.Delving into the wonderful world of American homebaking, this is ...