Observe (above) one Mehdi Hasan in full flow on last night’s Question Time. Then look at the tweets below from the Mail’s Tim Shipman. Try not to cackle; it’s rude.
Mehdi Hasan, who so vociferously attacked the Daily Mail on Question Time, asked for a job in 2010 & praised the paper equally floridly
— Tim Shipman (Mail) (@ShippersUnbound) October 4, 2013
@mehdirhasan to Paul Dacre, asking for a column: ‘The Mail has a vitally important role to play in the national debate.’
— Tim Shipman (Mail) (@ShippersUnbound) October 4, 2013
Mehdi Hasan told Paul Dacre: ‘I admire your relentless focus on the need for integrity and morality in public life.’
— Tim Shipman (Mail) (@ShippersUnbound) October 4, 2013
Mehdi said he was more in tune with Mail than the left on some ‘social & moral issues’
— Tim Shipman (Mail) (@ShippersUnbound) October 4, 2013
Mehdi told Paul Dacre ‘my fellow leftists & liberals have lost touch with their own traditions & with the great British public’
— Tim Shipman (Mail) (@ShippersUnbound) October 4, 2013
Mehdi to Dacre ‘I am also attracted by the Mail’s social conservatism on issues like marriage, the family, abortion and teenage pregnancies’
— Tim Shipman (Mail) (@ShippersUnbound) October 4, 2013
Mehdi asked to ‘write a piece for the Mail making the left-wing case against abortion’
— Tim Shipman (Mail) (@ShippersUnbound) October 4, 2013
Mehdi also suggested he write ‘a piece on why marriage should be a Labour value, and not just a Conservative one’.
— Tim Shipman (Mail) (@ShippersUnbound) October 4, 2013
Mehdi to Dacre: “Make them laugh, make them cry, or make them angry”. That’s something I believe I could do for you, and for your readers
— Tim Shipman (Mail) (@ShippersUnbound) October 4, 2013
PS: Hasan was asking to write columns for the Daily Mail – here’s what the paper has to say about it:
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