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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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 9 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 3.

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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 do worry, though, with my kind of political nerd hat on looking at political history, if politicians are able to find these safe spaces, fine.

If you had Nigel Farage on, I'm sure it would be a very...

A very lively interview.

But my worry is if Nigel Farage just pops up on podcasts as a whole, you're not going to get the kind of grilling or investigative journalism you might get in more traditional mainstream outlets.

And that's my concern.

I'm for grilling these people.

I'm not for kind of quote unquote engagement for engagement's sake.

And I do think that agreeing disagreeably thing, there has to be a line for that, right?

Do you agree disagreeably with a neo-Nazi, with a fascist, with a racist, with a Holocaust denier, with a climate change denier?

At what point do you say, I can't actually agree disagreeably with you.

I can't disagree agreeably about whether up is down, hot is cold, black is white.

reality right and i think that's where we're going to have these kind of tortured conversations as the right gets more deranged more disconnected from reality what do the rest of us do and my position is you still hold the people in power to account but you try and understand and engage with their followers for sure you need to understand what ordinary people ordinary people who are voting for the afd who are voting for reform who are voting for the republican party i'm i

We can engage with them and try and understand, are there any legitimate grievances?

Have they been misled?

Is there something that actually is powering this populist anger that we need to take seriously?

You can't cover everything even in a film.

You also interviewed the president of Syria, who until very recently was a wanted Al-Qaeda leader.

And look, I'll be very honest with you.

Thank you for blowing smoke up my ass.

It makes this very awkward then to say this in response, which is there's a lot of people who are going to be mad at me for coming on the show with you because of Iraq, right?

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