Sadiq Khan

‘I recognise I’m clickbait being monetised in this outrage economy’

The Labour Mayor of London spoke to Adam Bienkov about how 10 years of rising algorithmic online hate has put his own safety at risk and ‘put a target’ on the capital’s back

The weekend before Sadiq Khan was first elected as London Mayor in 2016, the Mail on Sunday ran a full-page article on him written by his Conservative opponent Zac Goldsmith.

It was illustrated with a blown-up London bus alongside the headline: “On Thursday, are we really going to hand the world’s greatest city to a Labour Party that thinks terrorists are its friends?”

For Khan, who was bidding to become the UK’s first directly elected mayor of Muslim faith, it crossed a dangerous line in our politics that he believes his opponents have never stepped back from.