Mehdi Hasan
Mehdi Hasan is the New Statesman’s Senior Editor (politics).
Articles by Mehdi Hasan
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Politics
Jewish Chronicle columnist expresses "pleasure" over death of peace activist
- 18 May 2011
- 85 comments
Can you imagine if a Muslim columnist had written something similar? Geoffrey Alderman should be ashamed of himself.
Global Issues
No kind of martyr
- 12 May 2011
- 67 comments
Mehdi Hasan is horrified at the reaction to the killing of Osama by a handful of people in the Muslim world. Bin Laden may be dead, he argues, but Bin Ladenism isn’t.
UK Politics
After the bloodbath, it’s time for Lib Dems to call the Tories’ bluff
- 12 May 2011
- 49 comments
Even after the bloodbath in the local elections and the public’s rejection of AV, the Lib Dems still have the power to challenge Tory policy from within.
Politics
Déjà vu. Labour tribalists block a “progressive majority”. Again.
- 06 May 2011
- 97 comments
Beckett, Blunkett and Reid should hang their heads in shame.
UK Politics
Memo to Blue Labourites: tone down the nostalgia
- 20 April 2011
- 39 comments
There was no golden age and the party must not idealise the working class.
UK Politics
It’s a miserable little compromise, but we should still vote Yes to AV
- 15 April 2011
- 52 comments
AV might have its flaws but first-past-the-post isn't fit for purpose.
Politics
Immigration, immigration, immigration
- 14 April 2011
- 124 comments
Cameron’s speech is lazy, ill-informed and inflammatory.
Politics
The whistleblower debate
- 11 April 2011
- 36 comments
Me and Julian Assange v Douglas Murray and Bob Ayers.
Politics
The case for AV
- 07 April 2011
- 44 comments
Forget Clegg. Do you want to put a smile on these people's faces?
Society
How we rub along together
- 07 April 2011
- 7 comments
When my father arrived in England in the Sixties, he was welcomed with dog mess through his letter box and Enoch Powell on the TV, writes Mehdi Hasan. We’ve come a long way since then – so why do politicians claim that multiculturalism has failed?
