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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Same, same.
I was like, no, no, not you, Harry.
It's interesting.
Right now, it affects my work in one very singular way, which is wherever I go, wherever I speak about politics, Trump, the threat to democracy, the rise of fascism, the genocide in the Middle East, I get asked by live audience.
I do a lot of live events.
And I get asked by audiences wherever I go in the US who have deeply depressed, deeply pessimistic about the future.
They say, how do you keep hope alive?
How do you stay hopeful?
How do you get out of bed in the morning and still fight the good fight?
And that is an answer I give based around faith, which is I'm a very pessimistic person.
I'm not an optimist.
My wife and kids will tell you I'm negative about everything.
I'm like, oh, it's going to be a shitty day.
Oh, it's going to rain.
I'm very negative.
No, we're going to win.
No, England are going to win.
That's different.
Right.
But optimism is not the same thing as hope.
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