Paul Mason
@paumas.bsky.social
Socialist, Environmentalist, Trade Unionist, Architect and Dundonian. Your Party Member Living in Glasgow 🚩 - https://in.yourparty.uk/users/sign_up | ✊ Unite-SAW - https://www.sawtheunion.org/ | Views my own. | (He/Him)
I am here for the artistic polemic about why someone stuck a pigeon on top of the Wellington. Nice try.
For what it is worth, the next move needs to be a bigger cone to cover the pigeon. Ensuring a traffic cone wholly sits a top the head of this statue is the primary civic endeavour of the city.
For what it is worth, the next move needs to be a bigger cone to cover the pigeon. Ensuring a traffic cone wholly sits a top the head of this statue is the primary civic endeavour of the city.
November 23, 2025 at 10:22 AM
I am here for the artistic polemic about why someone stuck a pigeon on top of the Wellington. Nice try.
For what it is worth, the next move needs to be a bigger cone to cover the pigeon. Ensuring a traffic cone wholly sits a top the head of this statue is the primary civic endeavour of the city.
For what it is worth, the next move needs to be a bigger cone to cover the pigeon. Ensuring a traffic cone wholly sits a top the head of this statue is the primary civic endeavour of the city.
You can’t stay here if you don’t speak English. You aren’t allowed to learn English here either. The impossible asks we make of people who came here thinking they had escaped persecution.
Dalmarnock Primary's been offering family learning for years.
It's sad *some* parents are boycotting a school cause asylum seeker families get that support too via ESOL.
Funny how certain folk never raised PVG concerns for other family learning on offer...
www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/2564201...
It's sad *some* parents are boycotting a school cause asylum seeker families get that support too via ESOL.
Funny how certain folk never raised PVG concerns for other family learning on offer...
www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/2564201...
Protest at Glasgow school over plan to hold English lessons for asylum seekers
PARENTS are to stage a protest outside a Glasgow primary school over plans to hold English lessons for asylum seekers during class times.
www.glasgowtimes.co.uk
November 22, 2025 at 6:19 PM
You can’t stay here if you don’t speak English. You aren’t allowed to learn English here either. The impossible asks we make of people who came here thinking they had escaped persecution.
Interesting read. Happens against the backdrop of a backlash from LinkedIn users who have seen their engagement stifled in favour of monetised “boosting” of posts.
Major issue with these platforms and the power they wield and the lack of accountability they have to any public good.
Major issue with these platforms and the power they wield and the lack of accountability they have to any public good.
Bro boost: women say their LinkedIn traffic increases if they pretend to be men
Collective experiment found switching profile to ‘male’ and ‘bro-coding’ text led to big increase in reach, though site denies favouring posts by men
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Interesting read. Happens against the backdrop of a backlash from LinkedIn users who have seen their engagement stifled in favour of monetised “boosting” of posts.
Major issue with these platforms and the power they wield and the lack of accountability they have to any public good.
Major issue with these platforms and the power they wield and the lack of accountability they have to any public good.
The Labour Party favour oligarchs and billionaires over teachers and doctors.
Rascist, favouring some ethnic groups over others such as Ukrainians and Hong Kongers over Afghans or Latin Americans.
They hate refugees. Live here 20-30 years with the fear of being sent back potentially to die.
Rascist, favouring some ethnic groups over others such as Ukrainians and Hong Kongers over Afghans or Latin Americans.
They hate refugees. Live here 20-30 years with the fear of being sent back potentially to die.
November 20, 2025 at 11:46 PM
The Labour Party favour oligarchs and billionaires over teachers and doctors.
Rascist, favouring some ethnic groups over others such as Ukrainians and Hong Kongers over Afghans or Latin Americans.
They hate refugees. Live here 20-30 years with the fear of being sent back potentially to die.
Rascist, favouring some ethnic groups over others such as Ukrainians and Hong Kongers over Afghans or Latin Americans.
They hate refugees. Live here 20-30 years with the fear of being sent back potentially to die.
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November 19, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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The answer is yes, you total coward. We will allow most likely traumatised people to come here and then we will force them to feel the trauma of being uprooted from their new home.
There is no real reason to do this other than cowardice to challenge people’s misconceptions and in some cases racism.
There is no real reason to do this other than cowardice to challenge people’s misconceptions and in some cases racism.
“Is it possible that you could have a life here, a job here, maybe kids going to school, a family here, then after 19 years if your country is then considered safe you get booted out and sent home?”
November 16, 2025 at 10:01 AM
The answer is yes, you total coward. We will allow most likely traumatised people to come here and then we will force them to feel the trauma of being uprooted from their new home.
There is no real reason to do this other than cowardice to challenge people’s misconceptions and in some cases racism.
There is no real reason to do this other than cowardice to challenge people’s misconceptions and in some cases racism.
In a week that feels like a month I missed that the BBC had Kelvin McKenzie on to talk about journalistic standards.
The man who wrongly editorialised the working class fans as the culprits at Hillsborough when they were victims.
Why is it all apologies for Trump and 0 Fs given to the rest of us.
The man who wrongly editorialised the working class fans as the culprits at Hillsborough when they were victims.
Why is it all apologies for Trump and 0 Fs given to the rest of us.
November 14, 2025 at 7:50 PM
In a week that feels like a month I missed that the BBC had Kelvin McKenzie on to talk about journalistic standards.
The man who wrongly editorialised the working class fans as the culprits at Hillsborough when they were victims.
Why is it all apologies for Trump and 0 Fs given to the rest of us.
The man who wrongly editorialised the working class fans as the culprits at Hillsborough when they were victims.
Why is it all apologies for Trump and 0 Fs given to the rest of us.
I remember post 911 the warnings about the impact of new anti-terror laws on human rights.
UK bombing other countries is what has radicalised a generation of terrorists. How about stopping that!
Now we are locking up grannies and throwing away the key for holding a sign and opposing genocide.
UK bombing other countries is what has radicalised a generation of terrorists. How about stopping that!
Now we are locking up grannies and throwing away the key for holding a sign and opposing genocide.
Opposing genocide is the moral duty of our time.
Yet Palestine Action activists have been held in prison for over a year without trial. Six are now on hunger strike.
Detaining peaceful protesters under counter-terror powers is indefensible. This is political imprisonment in all but name.
Yet Palestine Action activists have been held in prison for over a year without trial. Six are now on hunger strike.
Detaining peaceful protesters under counter-terror powers is indefensible. This is political imprisonment in all but name.
November 11, 2025 at 8:32 PM
I remember post 911 the warnings about the impact of new anti-terror laws on human rights.
UK bombing other countries is what has radicalised a generation of terrorists. How about stopping that!
Now we are locking up grannies and throwing away the key for holding a sign and opposing genocide.
UK bombing other countries is what has radicalised a generation of terrorists. How about stopping that!
Now we are locking up grannies and throwing away the key for holding a sign and opposing genocide.
Governing on slogans or vibes. Really good piece this.
Our justice system still does not reduce re-offending.
Shoplifting isn’t a threat to our safety. It’s a symptom of a broken societal contract.
Prisons are expensive, we shouldn’t build more but modernise and humanise our existing ones.
Our justice system still does not reduce re-offending.
Shoplifting isn’t a threat to our safety. It’s a symptom of a broken societal contract.
Prisons are expensive, we shouldn’t build more but modernise and humanise our existing ones.
How can Scotland have a 'soft touch' approach to crime, and the biggest prison population in history, hitting just under 8400 last month? asks Andrew Tickell ✍️
www.thenational.scot/politi...
www.thenational.scot/politi...
November 10, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Governing on slogans or vibes. Really good piece this.
Our justice system still does not reduce re-offending.
Shoplifting isn’t a threat to our safety. It’s a symptom of a broken societal contract.
Prisons are expensive, we shouldn’t build more but modernise and humanise our existing ones.
Our justice system still does not reduce re-offending.
Shoplifting isn’t a threat to our safety. It’s a symptom of a broken societal contract.
Prisons are expensive, we shouldn’t build more but modernise and humanise our existing ones.
Waiting on a train, minding my own business. Some women gets off and gives me the dirtiest look. I clock her red poppy and she clearly took massive offence at me wearing a white one.
Like common, we can all agree that working for peace and not murdering each other is a good thing surely.
Like common, we can all agree that working for peace and not murdering each other is a good thing surely.
November 9, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Waiting on a train, minding my own business. Some women gets off and gives me the dirtiest look. I clock her red poppy and she clearly took massive offence at me wearing a white one.
Like common, we can all agree that working for peace and not murdering each other is a good thing surely.
Like common, we can all agree that working for peace and not murdering each other is a good thing surely.
We need to talk about asset prices. We don’t just have an affordability crisis. We have a wealth hoarding one too.
“It’s kind of a shocking number."
The median age of first-time home buyers in the U.S. hit an all-time high of 40 in 2025, according to a report from the National Association of Realtors. nyti.ms/4hKc58V
The median age of first-time home buyers in the U.S. hit an all-time high of 40 in 2025, according to a report from the National Association of Realtors. nyti.ms/4hKc58V
November 7, 2025 at 10:10 PM
We need to talk about asset prices. We don’t just have an affordability crisis. We have a wealth hoarding one too.
Here bunch of people who actually live here, you get first dibs on the land. Er.. how much does it cost? A bijillion pounds, dont you have that?
Land reform without doing anything to influence the cost of land is just fiddling around in the form of performative bureaucracy.
Land reform without doing anything to influence the cost of land is just fiddling around in the form of performative bureaucracy.
Scotland’s land should benefit the people of Scotland.
The Scottish Parliament has just overwhelmingly passed our historic Land Reform Bill - putting more power in the hands of the people, not large landowners.
The Scottish Parliament has just overwhelmingly passed our historic Land Reform Bill - putting more power in the hands of the people, not large landowners.
November 6, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Here bunch of people who actually live here, you get first dibs on the land. Er.. how much does it cost? A bijillion pounds, dont you have that?
Land reform without doing anything to influence the cost of land is just fiddling around in the form of performative bureaucracy.
Land reform without doing anything to influence the cost of land is just fiddling around in the form of performative bureaucracy.
The UK equivalent is housing benefit. We pay 30£ billion a year in housing benefit where 40% goes to private land lords.
Imagine if we built affordable public homes.
Imagine if we built affordable public homes.
November 5, 2025 at 9:23 AM
The UK equivalent is housing benefit. We pay 30£ billion a year in housing benefit where 40% goes to private land lords.
Imagine if we built affordable public homes.
Imagine if we built affordable public homes.
Serious applications only I’d assume.
Can you explain away the odd Nazi salute as an unfortunate hand wave. Justify misogynistic comments & behaviour as “locker talk”. A natural talent to construe any issue, no matter how tenuously connected, to immigration. Then this an opportunity for you.
Can you explain away the odd Nazi salute as an unfortunate hand wave. Justify misogynistic comments & behaviour as “locker talk”. A natural talent to construe any issue, no matter how tenuously connected, to immigration. Then this an opportunity for you.
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November 4, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Serious applications only I’d assume.
Can you explain away the odd Nazi salute as an unfortunate hand wave. Justify misogynistic comments & behaviour as “locker talk”. A natural talent to construe any issue, no matter how tenuously connected, to immigration. Then this an opportunity for you.
Can you explain away the odd Nazi salute as an unfortunate hand wave. Justify misogynistic comments & behaviour as “locker talk”. A natural talent to construe any issue, no matter how tenuously connected, to immigration. Then this an opportunity for you.
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It’s strange to feel hope pressed up so closely with the despair of what the UK could become. But there it is, writes Steph Paton ✍️
Read here: www.thenational.scot/politi...
Read here: www.thenational.scot/politi...
November 4, 2025 at 1:15 PM
It’s strange to feel hope pressed up so closely with the despair of what the UK could become. But there it is, writes Steph Paton ✍️
Read here: www.thenational.scot/politi...
Read here: www.thenational.scot/politi...
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Delighted to welcome Ellie Gomersall to Your Party from the Greens!
A proud socialist and trans woman, Ellie’s leadership will be vital in the fight against austerity, for equality and for a socialist Scotland.
Excited to work together for the change our communities deserve🫶🏽🏳️⚧️
A proud socialist and trans woman, Ellie’s leadership will be vital in the fight against austerity, for equality and for a socialist Scotland.
Excited to work together for the change our communities deserve🫶🏽🏳️⚧️
October 28, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Delighted to welcome Ellie Gomersall to Your Party from the Greens!
A proud socialist and trans woman, Ellie’s leadership will be vital in the fight against austerity, for equality and for a socialist Scotland.
Excited to work together for the change our communities deserve🫶🏽🏳️⚧️
A proud socialist and trans woman, Ellie’s leadership will be vital in the fight against austerity, for equality and for a socialist Scotland.
Excited to work together for the change our communities deserve🫶🏽🏳️⚧️
Vile. Has any of them ever spoken to a sex worker themselves. Asked them what they need to be safe. Very proud, that before being in Unite my union was part of UVW which did include the Sex Workers Union. People need to educate themselves, have been recommended reading Revolting Prostitutes.
This parliamentary group should be dissolved immediately. Its members have disgraced themselves. They pose as protectors of women while cosying up to the Magdalene laundries, for pity’s sake. It’s vile, unconscionable hypocrisy. They’re unfit to hold public office. Keep the spotlight on this, please
EXCLUSIVE: Ash Regan 'owes the Scottish public an explanation', campaigners have said, after it emerged a Holyrood group supporting her bill to outlaw buying sex is backed by an organisation that ran Magdalene laundries
Read here: tinyurl.com/ynept4fb
Read here: tinyurl.com/ynept4fb
October 28, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Vile. Has any of them ever spoken to a sex worker themselves. Asked them what they need to be safe. Very proud, that before being in Unite my union was part of UVW which did include the Sex Workers Union. People need to educate themselves, have been recommended reading Revolting Prostitutes.
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I think there’s a lot of white men virtue signaling and I just want to say try to be a Global South Migrant in a party that won’t listen to you. I tried to make it a priority in their agenda and it just was not happening. “It’s not devolved” it’s not enough for me. (1/5)
October 27, 2025 at 7:07 PM
I think there’s a lot of white men virtue signaling and I just want to say try to be a Global South Migrant in a party that won’t listen to you. I tried to make it a priority in their agenda and it just was not happening. “It’s not devolved” it’s not enough for me. (1/5)
I think this is an interesting point, and fundamentally it doesn’t increase the housing stock overall. The housing crisis is a restricted supply problem created by successive governments failure to build homes at the rate it did pre-1980s.
The problem with buying back properties to fix "the social housing crisis" is that it isn't *just* a social housing crisis.
You're taking away useful first time buyer homes to make social homes, so it's a bit of a zero sum game. Really need to build more homes.
You're taking away useful first time buyer homes to make social homes, so it's a bit of a zero sum game. Really need to build more homes.
“Right to buy in reverse: how Brighton is tackling its social housing crisis
The council is rolling back Thatcher’s flagship policy by buying stock from private landlords.”
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
The council is rolling back Thatcher’s flagship policy by buying stock from private landlords.”
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
October 27, 2025 at 11:29 AM
I think this is an interesting point, and fundamentally it doesn’t increase the housing stock overall. The housing crisis is a restricted supply problem created by successive governments failure to build homes at the rate it did pre-1980s.
Let Asylum seekers work! Billions to private companies and hotel owners. Money we could have spent building homes for the poor and asylum seekers alike. Proof racism leaves not just the victims poor but all of us while private enterprise profits from hate.
Home Office squandered billions on ‘failed and chaotic’ asylum accommodation
Commons committee describes successive governments’ failures to manage hotel use, contracts, spending and safeguarding
www.theguardian.com
October 27, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Let Asylum seekers work! Billions to private companies and hotel owners. Money we could have spent building homes for the poor and asylum seekers alike. Proof racism leaves not just the victims poor but all of us while private enterprise profits from hate.
The biggest failure of every UK government, including in Scotland, has been the complete failure to redress the crime of right to buy, where sold off our housing stock to end up owned by a small group of people.
The answer is simple; build, own and maintain coouncil hoouses.
The answer is simple; build, own and maintain coouncil hoouses.
Private rent in Britain now swallows 44% of the average wage
Monthly cost jumps to record £1,385 outside London, and £2,736 in the capital, with hotspots showing hefty rises
www.theguardian.com
October 27, 2025 at 8:57 AM
The biggest failure of every UK government, including in Scotland, has been the complete failure to redress the crime of right to buy, where sold off our housing stock to end up owned by a small group of people.
The answer is simple; build, own and maintain coouncil hoouses.
The answer is simple; build, own and maintain coouncil hoouses.
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A huge Your Party rally in Glasgow on Friday — and three new councillors defecting from the Greens to mark it! ✊🏽
Independence is a question of democracy: our Scottish members will choose our path.
Your Party is the only party that would actually deliver independence with socialism at its heart.
Independence is a question of democracy: our Scottish members will choose our path.
Your Party is the only party that would actually deliver independence with socialism at its heart.
October 26, 2025 at 12:52 PM
A huge Your Party rally in Glasgow on Friday — and three new councillors defecting from the Greens to mark it! ✊🏽
Independence is a question of democracy: our Scottish members will choose our path.
Your Party is the only party that would actually deliver independence with socialism at its heart.
Independence is a question of democracy: our Scottish members will choose our path.
Your Party is the only party that would actually deliver independence with socialism at its heart.
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Wes Streeting, from the party of organised labour, threatens workers that if they go out on strike over pay he'll cancel their essential training.
Labour, on the side of working people until they stand up for themselves, & then its sneers & threats.
Labour, on the side of working people until they stand up for themselves, & then its sneers & threats.
October 26, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Wes Streeting, from the party of organised labour, threatens workers that if they go out on strike over pay he'll cancel their essential training.
Labour, on the side of working people until they stand up for themselves, & then its sneers & threats.
Labour, on the side of working people until they stand up for themselves, & then its sneers & threats.
Lessons from a lunatic. If you have a weak currency, a consumer goods based economy and rampant inflation then cutting Gov. spending and not taxing will fuck you.
Argentina needs to tax hard on unproductive wealth and spend big on modern industry.
Argentina needs to tax hard on unproductive wealth and spend big on modern industry.
Argentina goes to polls amid economic crisis and Trump ‘interference’
Poor showing in Sunday’s election would deal hammer blow to country’s radical libertarian president, Javier Milei
www.theguardian.com
October 25, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Lessons from a lunatic. If you have a weak currency, a consumer goods based economy and rampant inflation then cutting Gov. spending and not taxing will fuck you.
Argentina needs to tax hard on unproductive wealth and spend big on modern industry.
Argentina needs to tax hard on unproductive wealth and spend big on modern industry.
“we’re not here for just tweaking capitalism here and there, just trying to get some reforms under this system. We are calling for a fundamental transformation of society and that is workers controlling the economy and communities controlling the wealth that they produce”
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October 25, 2025 at 12:14 PM
“we’re not here for just tweaking capitalism here and there, just trying to get some reforms under this system. We are calling for a fundamental transformation of society and that is workers controlling the economy and communities controlling the wealth that they produce”