
The Daily Mail’s leaking of Mehdi Hasan’s letter to Paul Dacre did not reveal Mehdi’s hypocrisy, merely an uncomfortable truth: these days, if you want to write for any outlet, you will probably have to disregard profound political differences with it while capitalising on the ground you share. That a left-wing journalist like Mehdi should admire some of the Mail’s values while loathing others is almost inevitable. For though the model of a simple binary political division between the Left and the Right may have appeared plausible during the 1980s, today it no longer does, and boundaries are increasingly blurred.
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Tuesday, 29 October 2013
Posted by Marko Attila Hoare |
Abortion, Conservatism, Environment, European Union, Immigration, Islam, Israel, LGBT, Liberalism, Libertarianism, Marko Attila Hoare, Political correctness, Racism, The Left | Afghanistan, Bashar al-Assad, David Cameron, Edward Heath, George W. Bush, Hosni Mubarak, Iraq, Kosovo, Mehdi Hasan, Michael Foot, Sierra Leone, Tony Blair |
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