Mehdi Hasan

This article is about the British political editor. For the Pakistani singer, see Mehdi Hassan.

Mehdi Hasan is the senior politics editor at the New Statesman.

After graduating from Christ Church, Oxford in 2000, with a degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE), he began his journalistic career answering the phones on the ITN newsdesk, before working as a researcher and then producer on LWT's Jonathan Dimbleby programme, with a brief stint in between on BBC1's The Politics Show. He then became deputy executive producer on Sky's breakfast show 'Sunrise' before moving to Channel 4 in June 2007 as their editor of news and current affairs.^[1]

Television appearances

In his first appearance on BBC Question Time on 13 May 2010 he debated alongside soon-to-be Deputy Leader of the Liberal Democrats Simon Hughes, former Justice Secretary Lord Falconer, Melanie Phillips and former Deputy Prime Minister Michael Heseltine. He made a second appearance on 23 September 2010, this time alongside Business Secretary Vince Cable, former Ministers John Redwood and Caroline Flint, and journalist Ian Hislop in Liverpool during the annual Lib-Dem autumn conference. He also makes frequent appearances on the Sunday morning programme "The Big Questions".

He has given talks at several conferences and universities in the past. He also spoke at a "Next Steps for Labour" event organised by the Tribune newspaper on 17 May 2010 at the TUC Congress House, arguing that the Labour Party should take time to elect its new Leader, and that it had to rethink its approach to certain issues such as civil liberties and the Iraq war.

Bibliography

• With James Macintyre. ED: The Milibands and the making of a Labour leader, London, Biteback Publishing, 2011. ISBN 978-1-84954-102-2
• Summer of Unrest: The Debt Delusion: Exposing ten Tory myths about debts, deficits and spending cuts, Vintage Digital, July 28, 2011.

References

1. ^ "Mehdi Hasan: The big transfer of the season in TV news". The Independent. July 23, 2007. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/mehdi-hasan-the-big-transfer-of-the-season-in-tv-news-458299.html. Retrieved March 24, 2011. 

External links

• Hasan's New Statesman blog.

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