For all my fellow desis who miss their late Pakistani/Indian dads, the ones who never stopped talking about politics!
Thank you @Trevornoah for asking me about how my father made me who I am and why politics is what makes me miss him so much:
A week ago today, we launched Zeteo in the UK (@zeteouk) with this trailer, below.
A week later, the trailer has a million views and we're about to cross 30,000 subscribers, a big chunk of them paid.
Have you subscribed?
https://t.co/lbS4LZWDQQ
De Niro: I hate to say it, but loving our country is starting to sound like an abused spouse saying they love their abuser.
I can’t love a country that starts stupid and inhumane wars, killing thousands of innocents and indirectly causing the deaths and suffering of millions more.
I can’t love a country that takes healthcare away from millions of people and uses that money to enrich their pals in the Trump-Epstein class.
I can’t love a country that sends out masked militias to shoot citizens in the streets, torture our neighbors, and separate families.
I can’t love a country that’s led by a racist, misogynist, xenophobic tyrant.
And let me just say it: I can’t love a country that’s led by Donald Trump and his sycophant Congress.
Lou Macari MBE ❤️
Our former winger has been recognised in the King's Birthday Honours for his work to tackle homelessness and services to football.
Congratulations from everybody at United, @LouMacari10! 👏
Club legend, community champion: Lou Macari awarded MBE in King’s Birthday Honours
“I am absolutely delighted to receive this honour. When people stop to talk to me now they want to talk about the work of the Foundation as well as football, which is nice."
https://t.co/ILiTA186bZ
🚨 BREAKING: Manchester United legend Lou Macari has been awarded an MBE in the King’s Birthday Honours.
The former United striker has been recognised for his outstanding work with the Macari Foundation, which has helped tackle homelessness in Stoke-on-Trent over the past decade.
A fantastic honour for a true footballing great 👏
FYI for our haters: I know you want @zeteouk to fail but in less than 72 hours since our soft launch, we have over 20,000 subscribers in the UK, a big chunk of them paid (double our target number).
To our supporters: thank you, and it's a great start, but we still need many more subscribers to compete with the mainstream media. Tell your friends, colleagues, family members; share the subscription link on your socials, far and wide. Let's change and improve the British media, together.
https://t.co/0D8Z2l1YMY
"What is the point of having fuck you money if you never say 'fuck you?!'"
"If Jeff Bezos - a billionaire - is running scared of Trump, what example does that set for everyone else?"
@mehdihasan on tech titans becoming "Trump sycophants."
"Right-wing billionaires are controlling much of the mainstream media."
"That is a very scary prospect when President Trump makes it clear that he expects loyalty."
Is @mehdirhasan paranoid to think that Trump could close down his media company?
@maitlis | @jonsopel
My full interview on Sky News today on the launch of Zeteo UK, media failures on genocide and fascism, and whether interviewers should call out lies on air.
🚨 BOMBSHELL! Mehdi Hasan exposes Sky News and the BBC. He confirms the media deliberately humanizes Israeli victims while ignoring Palestinian suffering.
He reveals broadcasters intentionally present blatant Zionist lies as absolute facts to cover up the horrific Gaza genocide!
Me: "For example, do you use the word 'lie'? "
Host: "Yeah."
Me: "You say to guests, 'You're lying'?"
Host: "Well, no, because it doesn't happen very often."
Me: "It doesn't happen very often?"
Host: "Yeah."
Me: "Guests don't come on Sky and lie very often?"
Host: "No, but look..."
Me: "I think viewers would disagree."
Thank you to @SkyNews for hosting this important conversation about critiques of mainstream media coverage, as Zeteo UK launches this week.
🚨 BOMBSHELL! Mehdi Hasan exposes the massive media coverup on Sky News. He confirms the press is deliberately using fake "both sides" journalism to hide the Gaza genocide.
He reveals the media is intentionally softening the disastrous, unprovoked war in Iran!
Mehdi Hasan slams Elon Musk, "He is obsessed with finding these cases where he can then amplify far right voices"
"He doesn't just do it in England with Tommy Robinson, he does it in German with the AfD, obviously he does it in the US with Twitter"
Victoria Derbyshire, "What is he seeking to do?"
Mehdi Hasan, "He's seeking to embolden some of the worst far right voices in the Western world"
"That's why he's funding so many people all over the place"
"This is his agenda. It's a very racist agenda. We see that in the US with the Republican party"
"Elon Musk amplifies some of the most neo-nazi voices on Twitter"
"You can take the boy out of apartheid South Africa, can you take apartheid South Africa out of the boy?"
Mehdi Hasan, "We have the Geneva Convention"
"We have International Humanitarian Law"
"We have the Rome Statute and the International Criminal Court"
"We have these metrics that were built up over the years, by the UK and the US; they led the world in writing these documents, these conventions"
"The European Convention of Human Rights, which everyone on the British right wants to pull out of, it was written by British lawyers"
"Much of that architecture is now being burnt down to protect Netanyahu, it's kind of insane"
"When historians come back to write these history books, it will be amazing to see how these laws, these conventions, they survived genocides, they survived some of the worst post war era conflicts"
"But they couldn't survive Gaza"
Medhi Hasan: “The 2 biggest hits to growth in the UK over last 10-15 years were brought about by Tory govts: austerity & Brexit”
Tory MP Jeremy Hunt: “Covid, global financial crisis, Ukraine?”
MH: “They were global issues. I’m talking about ones we did to ourselves”
#newsnight
.@mehdirhasan: ".. we shouldnt pretend that impartiality means you must take a middle position between two sides. Take the genocide.. the number of times that Sky & the BBC have given Israel a pass or taken an Israeli denial as fact when we know its not"
Frost didn't like that