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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UK Politics

Without immigrants, our country wouldn’t function. So let’s give it a go...

22 July 2013

Fancy Ukip’s oh-so-reasonable line on the nee to save our “out-of-control”, overcrowded, overburdened country? Let’s all try living, just for one day, without immigrants.

International Politics

Whether we like it or not, the settlers have won. The two-state solution is now impossible

11 July 2013

Whether we’re willing to admit it or not, Israel’s the Palestinian “peace process” is dead. There’s no hope of any success for a two-state solution.

International Politics

On wiretaps and drone strikes, it’s time for liberals to accept that Obama is worse than Bush

13 June 2013

On questions of “US national security”, from wiretaps to Gitmo to drone strikes, Barack Obama has shown his thinking is even less unenlightened than that of the junior Bush. And liberals everywhere better accept that.

UK Politics

Extremists point to western foreign policy to explain their acts. Why do we ignore them?

30 May 2013

Often, the likes of Michael Adebowale and Michael Adebolajo, who used violence to make “points” about the Muslim world in Woolwich, aren’t “religious fanatics”. The trigger we refuse to see is our foreign policy.

Religion

As a Muslim, I struggle with the idea of homosexuality – but I oppose homophobia

20 May 2013

I've made homophobic remarks in the past, writes Mehdi Hasan, but now I’ve grown up — and reconciled my Islamic beliefs with my attitude to gay rights.

Middle East

If we arm the Syrian rebels, how do we stop British bombs and bullets getting to al-Qaeda?

01 May 2013

The perils of intervention.

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.