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 The New York Times, Le Monde and others. He has won many of the most prestigious awards in British journalism, including the George Orwell prize (he is the youngest ever winner), the Martha Gellhorn Prize, the Amnesty International Journalist of the Year award twice, for his reporting from the war in Congo, and Dubai. At the British Press Awards in 2010 he became the youngest person ever to be shortlisted for the Journalist of the Year award.
Oil, blood money, and Blair's last scandal
Johann Hari: There is no question there was a plot. The question is whether it got what it wanted
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Dictators around the world will feel vindicated
Wednesday, 21 July 2010
Johann Hari: It is healthy that the powerful be confronted with the victims of their failed policies
Now Cameron jilts the environment
Friday, 16 July 2010
Johann Hari: He is opening the oceans off the Shetland Islands to deep-sea drilling, and promising Big Oil tax breaks to drill, baby, drill
So it's fine to abuse girls, if you're a great film director
Tuesday, 13 July 2010
Johann Hari: Swiss government admitted "national interests" may be a factor in the Polanski case.
Are media guilty over Moat?
Thursday, 8 July 2010
Johann Hari: Are we seeing the result of saturation coverage of the Derrick Bird shootings?
How Goldman gambled on starvation
Friday, 2 July 2010
Johann Hari: What does it say about our system that we can so casually inflict so much pain?
We all live in oil slick now
Friday, 25 June 2010
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
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
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• Christina Patterson: Lessons on immigrant life
There are glimpses into the lives of people who leave their own country.
• Richard Ingrams: Our leaders know so little about our country's history
Cameron seemed to not know that the USA was not a partner of Britain in 1940.
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A joke has no owner and no copyright. That may make comedians miserable.
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