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
Mehdi Hasan: How Islamic is Islamic State?
10 March 2015
Only as "British" as the BNP.
Mehdi Hasan
Mehdi Hasan: Five questions that trouble Ed Miliband’s many disillusioned supporters
12 February 2015
Answers required.
Mehdi Hasan
Don’t let the ridiculous smears fool you: Syriza is no party of the radical “far left”
29 January 2015
Lines of Dissent.
Mehdi Hasan
As a Muslim, I’m fed up with the hypocrisy of the free speech fundamentalists
13 January 2015
Double standards.
Mehdi Hasan
If Mary and Joseph tried to reach Bethlehem today, they would get stuck at an Israeli checkpoint
22 December 2014
’Tis the season of Nativity scenes.
Mehdi Hasan
Sorry, Myleene: yes, you can point at things and tax them. That’s what we should do to the City
04 December 2014
A bank transaction tax would win votes.
Mehdi Hasan
I was a teenage Europhile – but the EU’s sadistic austerity and lack of democracy changed my mind
20 November 2014
“We were wrong then, let’s not be wrong now.”
Politics
Five questions for anyone who says “it's not racist to talk about immigration”
13 November 2014
Not a taboo subject.
Mehdi Hasan
Why arming the Kurds is the only option – even for anti-war progressives in the west
23 October 2014
We must help.
Mehdi Hasan
The first “war on terror” was a failure. Do we really need a sequel?
18 September 2014
No air strikes on Isis.
Mehdi Hasan
Inside jobs and Israeli stooges: why is the Muslim world in thrall to conspiracy theories?
05 September 2014
Inside jobs and Israeli stooges.
Mehdi Hasan
What the jihadists who bought “Islam for Dummies” on Amazon tell us about radicalisation
21 August 2014
Berks, not martyrs.
Mehdi Hasan
From Egypt to Saudi Arabia, the Arab world has abandoned the Palestinians
08 August 2014
The inconvenient truth.
Mehdi Hasan
We single Israel out because we in the west are shamefully complicit in its crimes
16 July 2014
Why is Israel a “special case”?
Mehdi Hasan
The hand-choppers of Isis are deluded: there is nothing Islamic about their caliphate
04 July 2014
Have we gone back in time?

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