Mehdi Hasan

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4,624 appearances 9 recordings 7 series first heard Oct 2025 last heard 9 Jul

Mehdi Hasan’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The Rest Is Politics · 552. Trump's Red Card Saga and Germany's Far-Right Machine · 8 Jul 2026 podcast

I know this goes back, and this goes back to, unfortunately, your time in government as well, Alistair, where the Labour Party's position was, well, you've got to try and appease these people on the right.

That's how you win them over.

And it doesn't.

When you meet a fascist halfway, all you do is embolden that fascist and the fascist narrative.

And that's what we're seeing across Europe right now.

But

Alistair Howe, though, that's the question.

And no disrespect to your podcast, and I do a podcast too.

But I do think we live in an age of podcasts.

And a lot of politicians do enjoy the fact that we live in an age of podcasts.

Just look at what Donald Trump did in the last election.

He avoided a lot of tough interviewers, but he did a bunch of podcasts.

He did, you know, the Joe Rogans and the Theo Vons and all of those guys, the Andrew Schultz, I think he did as well.

He did a bunch of podcasts.

And a lot of those podcasts, especially the right wing podcasters, it was all just fun and games.

And politicians now like doing podcasts over doing Sunday morning shows or tough political interviews because they don't get asked follow-up questions.

They're confronted with a podcaster who doesn't understand politics or doesn't have a team of people writing forensic questions for them.

And I think that is a problem.

As much as I love independent media, I run an independent media company.

I have a podcast team.

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