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28 November 2011updated 12 Oct 2023 9:47am

Debts, deficits and Toby Young: Mehdi Hasan responds to a critic

The Telegraph blogger's response to my ebook on austerity is interesting but ill-informed.

By Mehdi Hasan

Imagine my surprise to discover that Toby Young had not just bought and read my 10,000-word ebook, The Debt Delusion, as he’d promised to on Twitter, but penned a 3,000-word response on the Telegraph website, entitled “New Statesman’s political editor is wrong about the debt crisis” (note: I’m not, technically, the NS’s “political editor”.)

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