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 · 551. Will Farage’s Trumpian Resignation Stunt Backfire? · 7 Jul 2026 podcast

We do live in this age where social media and the algorithms are able to foment a lot of division.

I can state the reasons why I don't like Keir Starmer, but I bet there's a lot of people who can't state those reasons and they don't quite know why they're supposed to hate Starmer.

And I think that might be a lot to do with the social media and media diet that they get.

And clearly he was his own worst enemy.

I don't know how he was director of public prosecutions, how he was a top barrister, because he's one of the worst speakers I've ever seen in modern British public life.

Like no charisma, wooden speaking habit, no humor, no ability to engage or persuade.

Look, you don't all have to be Tony Blair in your delivery, but you have to be someone who can engage with the public and go over the heads of the media, use the bully pulpit as they call it here in the United States.

And he did

Have a little bit of humiliation.

That's the media.

There's definitely a media role.

And I think Andy Burnham is supposed to be this great northern white knight, talks like a normal person, is a communicator.

I think that's all going to change very quickly.

You watch the media narrative about Burnham will change very fast.

Sorry, Alistair.

I've got to know.

Sorry.

If that was the case, if that was the case, I have one very simple question.

Why, after leaving office, did your old boss carry on sucking up to those people?

If it was just a political move?

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