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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That's fine.

But, you know, halfway houses will not work.

We need to act.

actually hear from Burnham as to what he's actually going to do.

And on the geopolitical scene, let's not forget, Labour have hemorrhaged votes to the Greens because of Gaza.

Let's not dance around that.

A lot of the obits of Keir Starmer in the BBC, even in The Guardian, I think, just didn't mention Gaza absurdly.

That was a huge issue for Labour voters and people who ditched his party.

A lot of polling has shown that a lot of people have gone to the Greens and the Lib Dems because of Gaza.

What's Andy Burnham going to do on that front?

We haven't really heard much.

So I think we're going to have to address some of these big issues very early on because people will make up their minds very quickly.

I think people on the left are a little worried about the James Pennell chief of staff appointment.

We'll see how that pans out.

Just to be devil's advocate, people might have said that about Morgan McSweeney and it turned out not to be a Beltway issue.

That's true.

If only Gordon Brown had had those eyelashes and a black t-shirt, he could have done a much better job of defenestrating your old boss.

Did you see him in a shirt the other day getting ice cream?

I'm going to be sad to see England defeat Norway on Saturday because I have a soft spot for the Norwegians, but they must lose.

Surely you want them to lose too, Alistair?

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