Johann Hari
Johann Hari has reported from Iraq, Israel/Palestine, the Congo, the Central African Republic, Venezuela, Peru and the US, and his journalism has appeared in publications all over the world. The youngest person to be nominated for the Orwell Prize for political writing, in 2003 he won the Press Gazette Young Journalist of the Year Award and in 2007 Amnesty International named him Newspaper Journalist of the Year. He is a contributing editor of Attitude magazine and published his first book, God Save the Queen?, in 2003.
We all live in oil slick now
Johann Hari: Step by step, US politicians on all sides become an oiligarchy that sees moving off petrol as irrational: turning off the spigot would turn off their election funds
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Johann Hari: How can America's 'War on Drugs' succeed if their Prohibition laws failed?
Friday, 11 June 2010
America's Prohibition laws were meant to cut crime and boost morality – they failed on both fronts. So how can the 'War on Drugs' ever succeed? It can't.
Johann Hari: When hands across the sea are tied
Friday, 4 June 2010
The argument that outsiders should not be allowed to criticise countries is being used more and more to thwart human rights campaigns
Johann Hari: And so, Cameron's first victims are...
Friday, 28 May 2010
Step forward the unemployed, poor kids, children in care, the elderly, the disabled, and any feeble little steps we were making towards a low-carbon economy
The real Climategate
Friday, 21 May 2010
Johann Hari: Global warming - and the worst environmental disasters - will only be tackled when green lobbyists in the US stop taking cash from Big Oil and Big Coal
Islamists, their victims, and hypocrisy
Thursday, 20 May 2010
Johann Hari: On the day we allowed two al-Qa'ida members to remain, two others waited for the police to hand them over to men who will kill them.
This is not what the people voted for
Friday, 14 May 2010
Johann Hari: : In any other European country, where they have democratic voting systems, the result of this election wouldn't even have been close
Johann Hari: Deniers - apologise for Climategate
Thursday, 6 May 2010
At last! The controversy is over. Forget the general election for a moment; this is even more important. It turns out the "scientific" claims promoted for decades by whiny self-righteous liberals were a lie, a fraud, a con - and we don't need to change after all. The left is humiliated; the conservatives are triumphant and exultant.
Johann Hari: What we'll lose if we reject Labour
Thursday, 6 May 2010
Betrayal is one story about this Labour government, and it's a true one. But if we carried only that tale to the polls today, we would be guilty of a betrayal of our own
Johann Hari: Welcome to Cameron land
Wednesday, 5 May 2010
David Cameron cites Hammersmith and Fulham council as a 'model' of compassionate conservatism. So what can the actions of Tory councillors here tell us about how the party would behave in government?
Johann Hari: Cameron is concealing his inner Bush
Friday, 30 April 2010
If he can’t keep the single best policy for reducing inequality – one that costs less than nothing – what shreds of progress can possibly survive his rule?
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