Mehdi Hasan
Mehdi Hasan is the New Statesman’s Senior Editor (politics).
Articles by Mehdi Hasan
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UK Politics
The biggest political scandal you’ve never heard of
- 06 October 2011
- 94 comments
The coalition's changes to the electoral registration system will lead to a sick democracy, with fewer registered voters and lower turnouts.
Politics
So Labour failed on education, did it?
- 01 October 2011
- 49 comments
As usual, the conventional wisdom is wrong. So says the FT.
Politics
Licence to kill
- 01 October 2011
- 60 comments
President Obama has assassinated a US citizen via drone strike. Yet his supporters are shamefully silent.
UK Politics
Miliband’s vision is bold – but now it’s time to convince the country
- 29 September 2011
- 29 comments
The Labour leader has made a decisive break with three decades of free-market orthodoxy. He must now improve his image - and fast.
International Politics
50 People Who Matter 2011 | 11. Recep Tayyip Erdogan
- 26 September 2011
- 2 comments
Turkish delight.
UK Politics
“People power can change the world”
- 22 September 2011
Unite general secretary Len McCluskey, the leader of Britain’s biggest union, has no time for defeatism.
UK Politics
“I’m ripping up the rule book”
- 22 September 2011
- 44 comments
Ed Miliband’s decision to break with the Murdoch empire – “people whose power had never been challenged” – was bold. Now, with the economy faltering, will he dare to go on the offensive again?
Middle East
Why is Blair the peace envoy so desperate for war with Iran?
- 19 September 2011
- 75 comments
Despite his catastrophic misjudgement on Iraq, Blair retains a strange superiority complex.
Politics
Did the invasion of Iraq heighten the threat from al-Qaeda-inspired terrorism?
- 16 September 2011
- 70 comments
Me v John Rentoul on a question to which the answer is YES.











