Mehdi Hasan
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4,624 appearances
9 recordings
7 series
first heard Oct 2025
last heard 9 Jul
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I want to talk about the media in a moment.
But before then, he did a lot of things that suggest he was not a decent man.
October 11th, 2023, a lot of us will not forget that LBC interview where he was asked, does Israel have the right to block power, water, food going into Gaza?
He said, Israel does have that right.
He later walked that back, but not after they didn't spend 24, 48 hours defending the line.
He then obviously did support.
Israel during this genocide.
He did crack down on vicars and old ladies, women and children, peacefully protesting the genocide, rounded them up en masse.
I don't think that was a decent thing to do.
He did lie in order to become Labour leader.
I'm sorry, there's been multiple U-turns, things he promised to do and didn't do.
So I'm not sure I buy this line that he was just some decent dude who fell afoul of a horrible right-wing media.
Having said that, clearly any Labour leader
is up against a Murdoch press, a right-wing press.
And now these tech giants, let's not forget Elon Musk's role in British politics, a big role.
I think any leader, wherever they are on the political spectrum, if they are Labour leader, if they are Prime Minister of the UK right now, and Andy Burnham will feel it very, very quickly if he isn't already, is up against this kind of transnational hard-right coalition of tech bosses and activists and media organisations and online pundits.
And even there was that Russian coalition
politician who was like, we did this, we brought down Starmer.
That's it, yeah.
Mertz is next.
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