The New Statesman political editors’ reunion: covering Westminster from Thatcher to Sunak
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The Importance of Blogging for the New States
I was the first Muslim political editor, and I brought a lot of religious stuff with me in the South Side. There was a war on terror going on still; we were at the height of al-Qaeda just about to get ISIS. And we did a lot ofreligious coverage, which really divided the readers. We would put it on the cover and it would be our best-selling issues. So that was an interesting part of my three years there, the religious side of things. The day after the election in 2010, I went off on Nick Clegg on the Wednesday calling him a kind of a betraying the left, betraying progressives, getting into bed with Cameron. But that
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