Hans Castorp is obviously an imposter. ASDA (owned by Wal-mart) is even worse than Tesco. The Co-op (good with food) is the workers' shop.

Lidl will do for me. Less of the unnecessary packaging on their fruit and veg, for example, being just one valid reason to shop there; the other being I'm not on Kelvin MacKenzie's inflated salary and need to economise.

Kelvin MacKenzie really is something else. He should never be forgiven for his Hillsborough slurs.

Justice for the 96.

Millions of poor and vulnerable people, as Mehdi correctly points out, lack this access to healthy food. It is sickeningly unfair that their wellbeing is damaged - adding to the health gap between rich and poor. http://www.dentaljournal.org/

Dear Mehdi

I just have been to your blog on the story about Pakistani men. Frankly the comments there are disheartening and unsurprising. These types of ignorant and foolish individuals are speaking nonsense because of the anonymity of internet

Anyway it is your BLOG, you write what is necessary. I appreciate your Blog. I just thought I should tell you that since you have so many nasty ilks in your blog.

Good day

Kelvin appears like a cross-breed between John McCririck and Michael Winner with his obnoxious and arrogant posturing.

People in Kelvin's position have the power to resist criticism of their class with open access to the media and by influencing/intimidating people in power. Unfortunately, the poor have no such privilidges to articulate a reply.

Keep up the good work Mehdi...dont let the old ponce get you down!

When The Sun talks about Class War, they seem to mean "the useless poor rising up against the hard-working middle (such as you, dear readers)".

That's a different Class War to the one being waged in actuality - useless millionaires crushing the poor and the vulnerable.

Actually the Sun has a point. Why not let's have the other version of Class War for a change? The poor and the dispossessed have a lot of oppressors and exploiters and cutters to target right now...

It is not true to say that you have no access to healthy food if you are poor.Liddle is an incredibly cheap no frill supermarket. There I could easily fill a trolley full of excellent fruit and vegetables and other healthy stuff for a fraction of what I would pay in other places. But of course you have to be able to buy basic ingredients and COOK, which most people now just can't be bothered to do.
I could quite easily cook a healthy meal for 2 for less than a fiver and I would have leftovers.
When I see the crap that people put in their trolleys, I despair. Mostly fattening ready made microwavable processed food, full of chemicals and expensive.
No I have no sympathy for the fat and the poor who claim they just can't find decent food.This is utter bollocks.They could just learn how to cook and make an effort. That's all it takes.

James, I don't think you can criticise Mehdi for ClassWar-ism, at a time when a Class War has never been more justifiable, moral or necessary.

And his point is perfectly valid. It's outrageous that places like Waitrose exist - or moreover, that anyone earns enough money to be able to shop in them. MacKenzie belongs to a wealthy, undertaxed elite. He can afford to shop there and never has problems with access to good quality food and drink.

Millions of poor and vulnerable people, as Mehdi correctly points out, lack this access to healthy food. It is sickeningly unfair that their wellbeing is damaged - adding to the health gap between rich and poor. A more equal society, and subsidisation of healthy food by greater tax on the higher earners, would slash this problem.

Instead, despite the fact that the rich and poor have similar dietary needs, one group (like MacKenzie) can afford to meet these needs, and millions of people can't. That such a basic problem exists implies exactly why we need a Class War - against the likes of Waitrose and its shoppers, and that includes a certain Mr MacKenzie.

MacKenzie really is an arsehole of the first order. He's one of those right wing commentators in the same mould as Littlejohn and Hitchens who espouses unpleasant views seemingly for effect. Either that or he is genuinely mentally ill. No-one could be that deluded and sociopathic and be actually considered to be healthy.

On a serious note, I agree with your remarks about class war, Mehdi. The upper class in the country cannot bear the fact that the electorate rejected them for 13 years and have decided we must be punished. MacKenzie is just using the "if I've just said it, it must be true" approach favoured by Dave, Gideon and Boris, thinking no-one will check on the facts.

As for forgetting your name, he's just trying to bully and belittle you. As I said at the top he is a prick of the first order.

Is it really appropriate for Mehdi Hasan to use the NS as a place to air his personal feelings about things happening in his life?

Sam - what business is that of yours?

I watched the programme you are referring to Mehdi and therefore I know the context within which the remark was made. I applaud you for sharing a stage with Kelvin McKenzie - who still refuses to apologose For The Sun's coverage of Hillsborough. I'm sick of him being wheeled out in debates as the "voice of the people". He's unrepresentative of anybody I know. He's a vile specimen of a human being.

I like most of what you say, but please less ego in the writing.

I prefer lidl brilliant for fruit and veg -does a mean scuba vessel to

thankyou for letting me aspire to shelf stacking by building all over the fucking place

I worked with McKenzie's father and mother years ago - they were both on a local paper in South London. Considering what they were like he hasn't turned out as bad as he could have.