Mehdi Hasan
speaker
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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Why don't you go after the world's richest man?
Why don't you have him open up his algorithm?
Why don't you hold him to account for some of the stuff that they're putting out there?
There's many tools in the British government toolbox.
They'd rather use them against pro-Palestine protesters than this right-wing billionaire oligarch.
I say this all the time.
I can't say it enough.
I'll say it on every appearance you have me on, which is you have to fight fire with fire.
You cannot just sit back and play defense.
You must go on the offense.
You must change some of the structures of power in this country if you're going to be a center-left or a left-wing or even a centrist prime minister.
You cannot accept the status quo as it is currently structured when it comes to politics, when it
I mean, just again, look at what the right does.
Donald Trump comes into office, appoints his underling, his sycophant, Brendan Carr, as head of the FCC.
The guy wears like a gold Trump badge on his lapel.
He's supposed to be an independent regulator of the media, and he promptly goes after all of Donald Trump's media enemies.
Right.
So that is what the right does.
You don't have to go that far.
But the idea that you wouldn't look again at Ofcom or Leveson or Twitter X, whatever you want to call it, I think would be absurd.
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