Mehreen Khan
@MehreenKhn
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Economics Editor @thetimes Dormant-ish account
Joined January 2009
Zohran Mamdani: “Every day I wake up, I think about Sebastien Squillaci. Pascal Cygan. Marouane Chamakh!”
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I’ve been writing about elite vs popular politics for a long time, and don’t think I’ve ever seen elite consensus more disconnected from public reality
Bari Weiss says she wants to use her new perch at CBS News to “redraw the lines of what falls in the 40 yards of acceptable debate” in American political and cultural life. She says the aim is to sideline voices like Hasan Piker, Tucker Carlson and Nick Fuentes, and elevate
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Paul has taken the decision to remove his music from Israel, in solidarity as part of the 'No Music For Genocide' movement.
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Shabana Mahmood’s story of a child of immigrants on a moral mission is clever and effective. It is also cynical and disgraceful. This week’s column
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‘She is the daughter of immigrants,’ supporters of her cruel asylum policies say. ‘How can she be wrong?’ Let me put them straight, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
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Remember when it was revealed that Israel's internal analysis concluded that the only way to reverse the disastrous plunge in Israel's standing was to fuel Islamophobia and portray Israel as the defender of the "West"? Well, here you have it. Melanie Phillips' speech in NY.
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They revoked people's visas for talking this way about Charlie Kirk
Trump suggests Khashoggi had it coming: "You're mentioning someone that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen. But he knew nothing about it. You don't have to
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SCOOP: Unreported July 5, 2019 exchanges — sent a day before Jeffrey Epstein’s arrest — show Larry Summers asking Epstein for advice about a woman whose career Summers said was shaped by his professional influence, calling himself her “economics mentor.” https://t.co/jzqfP6Clg8
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As Summers Sought Clandestine Relationship With Woman He Called a Mentee, Epstein Was His ‘Wing Man’ | News | The Harvard Crimson
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What explains the growing ideological #polarisation in many Western societies? What are the consequences & how can we build a less polarised future? #economicsfest conversation tmrw, 18 Nov, with: @MehreenKhn
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https://t.co/dUnZDFmVF0
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Festival of Economics 2025: What explains the growing ideological and gender polarisation in many Western societies? What are the consequences, and how can we build a less polarised future?
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The Times is hosting a Budget briefing on November 27th breaking down the political and economic ramifications of what will be a defining moment for Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves You can join @FraserNelson @patrickkmaguire @MehreenKhn and myself as we pick through the aftermath
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A Times event discussing the budget which will be announced the day before
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Maybe if you channeled all this anger into swimming faster you wouldn’t have come in fifth.
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"It was a racist campaign against @AyoubKhanMP" @OborneTweets on the media coverage around Maccabi fans being banned from the match at Villa Park & the way they went after the local MP
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Speaking in front of a mosque in the Bronx, @ZohranKMamdani is addressing Islamophobic comments made by @andrewcuomo and @ericadamsfornyc “I want to use this moment to speak to the Muslims of this city,” he says.
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Palestine’s most popular leader, Marwan Barghouti, the man most capable of leading negotiations for a Palestinian state, was beaten unconscious by eight Israeli prison guards on September 14 as he was being transferred between prisons.
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Family fears for 66-year-old’s life after assault while he was being transferred between prisons
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Happy to share the 1st part of our @nytimes investigation into some of Syria's most notorious regime officials: "The Vanishing Act: How Assad’s Top Henchmen Fled Syria, and Justice"- https://t.co/aD0QO97DOv
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As Syria’s regime collapsed, the world’s eyes were on Bashar al-Assad’s getaway flight. Behind him, officials key to his brutal rule made a mass exodus, virtually undetected.
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We, SGSF stand in solidarity with the activists of the Global Sumud Flotilla, including our comrade David Adler of the @ProgIntl, who have been abducted & detained by Israeli forces for trying to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza. Free Palestine 🇵🇸 and David Adler!✊🏽
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Turkish journalist and Sumud Flotilla activist Ersin Celik: The Israelis tormented Greta Thunberg, dragged her on the ground, and made her kiss the Israeli flag. Greta is just a small child.
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"I have been abducted and taken against my will by Israeli forces." Israel has detained my friend, and Zeteo contributor, @GretaThunberg. She, like everyone else on that flotilla, needs to be immediately released and her governent needs to speak out. https://t.co/bSWtqp6w0p
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.@davidrkadler's mother tells me: "David is now in an Israeli prison and his US senators (Schiff and Padilla) are not being helpful. The EU is all over the prison and our embassy has not shown up at all." Hey, @SenAdamSchiff and @AlexPadilla4CA. A constituent of yours is in a
Greetings from the Global Sumud Flotilla as we make our final approach to Gaza ⛵️ Today, I am writing a very personal letter to you all — a letter about what it means to me to be Jewish on a mission that is set to arrive to the “Red Zone” during Yom Kippur, the holiest day of
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The Gaza peace plan is an absolute minefield. It allows for Israel to reactivate the war at almost any moment.
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Dear friends, I have just published a very personal essay in the @guardian on the @gbsumudflotilla ⛵️ Who we are, why we sail, what it means to be a Jewish U.S. American aboard this humanitarian mission, and why Gaza — amid the escalation of Israel’s genocide — cannot wait. 🩵
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