Mehdi Hasan

Mehdi Hasan

Mehdi Hasan is the New Statesman’s Senior Editor (politics).

Articles by Mehdi Hasan

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Three years since the crash and not a single “bankster” is in jail

  • 12 September 2011
  • 52 comments

Where has all the anger over grotesque bank bonuses gone? Why has there been no accountability?

Question Time, Israel and 9/11

  • 09 September 2011
  • 216 comments

An astonishing claim -- even by his standards -- from Richard Perle.

We will defeat terrorism only when we refuse to be terrorised

  • 07 September 2011
  • 73 comments

The threat must be put in perspective -- our civilisation's survival isn't at stake.

The Republicans are "an apocalyptic cult"

  • 05 September 2011
  • 25 comments

. . . says a former Republican Congressional staffer.

"Bin Laden should have been dead long ago"

  • 05 September 2011
  • 14 comments

Michael Scheuer led the CIA’s hunt for Osama Bin Laden, until he scolded his superiors for missing their chance to kill the terrorist. As a result, he says, innocent lives were lost.

It may be goodbye to Gaddafi, but it’s far from Mission Accomplished

  • 25 August 2011
  • 78 comments

Those who suggest Libya could be a template for intervention are deluded. War should be a last resort, not the first or only option.

“I don’t see a broken society”

  • 24 August 2011
  • 17 comments

In the aftermath of the riots, Tariq Jahan’s quiet dignity over his son’s death made him a national hero. Here, he speaks movingly about losing a child, and the radical Islamist past he abandoned to become a father.

Top City broker says consumerism and materialism are to blame for the riots

  • 23 August 2011
  • 34 comments

An intriguing new report from an unlikely source.

Exclusive Tariq Jahan interview: "I don't see a broken society"

  • 17 August 2011
  • 129 comments

The grieving father talks to the New Statesman about tougher sentencing, his Islamist past and his memories of his son.

Memo to left and right: please stop generalising about the looters.

  • 11 August 2011
  • 59 comments

The debate about the riots is being hijacked by those who want to push partisan agendas and narratives. But shouldn’t we wait for evidence?

The interview

Preview: Ken Livingstone: “The world is run by monsters”

The interview

Preview: Boris Johnson: “I’ll tell you what makes me angry – lefty crap”

On Syria

Intervention in Syria won’t work, so how do we stop Assad?

GOP race so far

Infographic: Republican primary race 2012

Mind your B-sides

Mind your B-sides

Time to rethink

Time to rethink, not reassure

Who minds?

Latter Day Taint?

Alistair Darling

Alistair Darling, the Miliband dilemma and what the party must do next
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