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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International Politics

Where would you rather live: small-government Somalia or big-government Sweden?

23 April 2013

Critics of “big government” talk as if it’s beyond question that the state’s involvement with our lives is a bad thing.

UK Politics

The sorry truth is that the virus of anti-Semitism has infected the British Muslim community

21 March 2013

It's a shameful fact that Muslims are not only the victims of racial and religious prejudice but purveyors of it, too.

UK Politics

The hawks were wrong: Iraq is worse off now

14 February 2013

Saddam is gone – but at what cost?

Politics

Today we remember Lincoln as a great redeemer – and that should give Obama hope

28 January 2013

Time for the 44th president to prove he can be the heir to the 16th.

Religion

God is the best answer to: “Why is there something rather than nothing?”

19 December 2012

Mehdi Hasan v Richard Dawkins.

Middle East

Ignore the neocons – I refuse to give up on Egypt, or the Arab spring

29 November 2012

Long live the Arab Spring - despite the murmurs about Morsi’s “pharaonic” decree in Egypt and the Syrian bloodbath, I refuse to lose faith in the people of the Arab world.

Broadcast

We must defend the BBC from Murdoch and death by a thousand Tory cuts

14 November 2012

If we want to preserve quality public-service broadcasting in Britain, we must defend the Beeb.

North America

The zombie neocons have risen from the dead and found a new Dubbya

01 November 2012

Romney is running for Bush's third term.

Society

10 things I learned from debating abortion on Twitter

16 October 2012

A response to the reaction to my most recent column.