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Mehdi Hasan

Mehdi Hasan is a contributing writer for the New Statesman and the co-author of Ed: The Milibands and the Making of a Labour Leader. He was the New Statesman's senior editor (politics) from 2009-12.

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Mehdi Hasan
The return of the Blair
02 March 2012

What Ed M should and shouldn't learn from TB.

Politics
Our friend and ally, the Kingdom of Bahrain
01 March 2012

The latest Human Rights Watch report makes for depressing reading.

Politics
Jenny Tonge and Ehud Olmert - can you spot the difference?
29 February 2012

Calling for, or worrying about, a one-state solution isn't new, novel or controversial.

Politics
Time to talk about land taxes
24 February 2012

An important contribution from the FT's Samuel Brittan.

Politics
The mythical marriage of Iran and al-Qaeda
23 February 2012

Iran Watch, part 2

International Politics
Why have we ignored the plight of Palestine’s Bobby Sands?
23 February 2012

We honour the memory of many men who took up armed struggle and died on hunger strike for their beli

Politics
Iran Watch, part 1
22 February 2012

A new series of blogposts on the hawkish rhetoric surrounding the Islamic Republic and its nuclear p

Politics
Labour: NHS to be a "defining issue" at the next election
17 February 2012

Ed Miliband turns his attention to the coalition's disastrous health bill.

Politics
Academies: five things they don't tell you
16 February 2012

The battle heats up over the future of our schools system.

UK Politics
Gove’s stealthy school reforms could become as toxic as the NHS bill
16 February 2012

The Education Secretary's free-market reforms to our school system are a political time bomb waiting

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