Mehdi Hasan

UK Politics

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?

Politics

Question Time, Israel and 9/11

• 09 September 2011
• 216 comments

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

North America

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.

Politics

The Republicans are "an apocalyptic cult"

• 05 September 2011
• 25 comments

. . . says a former Republican Congressional staffer.

North America

"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.

International Politics

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.

Society

“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.

Politics

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?