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Ukraine can win...
...but to defeat Putin the West's political economy needs to change
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Paul Mason
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What 'anti-human' means to Vladimir Putin
How triumphalism over the BRICS summit led Russian fascism to hike its anti-Semitic rhetoric
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Paul Mason
Good Morning, Secretary of State...
As Grant Shapps takes over the MOD, Ten Questions for his in-tray...
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Paul Mason
August 2023
Why Putin loves the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
...and why his left supporters are deploying arguments borrowed from 1939
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Trump, The Key to the International Situation
Defeating Putin and defeating far-right insurrection in America go hand in hand
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F is for failing democracy
A senior Conservative tells refugees to "f*** off back to France"
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Trump. Niger. Drones. Disarray...
A single day's news-flow betokens Western strategic inaction
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July 2023
Trading on optimism, while insolvent
RAND report highlights US strategic weakness, with stark implications for UK
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Paul Mason
DCP2023: Nothing-burger On A Shingle?
Or brilliant conceptual exercise hampered by lack of money?
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China: A bleak history of UK policy failure
Intelligence and Security Committee flays ministries, politicians and agencies alike
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Paul Mason
The British left's red-brown problem (Part 2)
The role of the "useful idiot savant", then and now...
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The British left's red-brown problem (Part 1)
How Stalinism, anti-Semitism and Putinism are fuelling a reactionary political folklore
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Paul Mason
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