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.
Alan Bennett and the question of innocence
Johann Hari: In his new play, [Bennett] takes his dark analysis of pederasty further.
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Johann Hari: A morally bankrupt dictatorship built by slave labour
Friday, 27 November 2009
Dubai is finally financially bankrupt – but it has been morally bankrupt all along. The idea that Dubai is an oasis of freedom on the Arabian peninsular is one of the great lies of our time.
The real reason Obama is not making much progress
Friday, 20 November 2009
Johann Hari: Before you can appeal to America's voters you have to appeal to the corporations.
Peter Mandelson's assault on science
Tuesday, 17 November 2009
Johann Hari: Drug companies are the biggest funders of university research – and they want a return
Renouncing Islamism: To the brink and back again
Monday, 16 November 2009
Johann Hari: Would-be extremists who had a change of heart.
Accept the facts – and end this futile 'war on drugs'
Wednesday, 11 November 2009
Johann Hari: We are handing one of our biggest industries over to armed, criminal gangs.
The harsh truth about Tory policies
Friday, 6 November 2009
Johann Hari: Cameron adopts policies which will hurt the poor because he's never known any
A shock rise in homophobia
Wednesday, 4 November 2009
Johann Hari: How can you stop violence against gay people? Start with the culture of schools and the police.
Celebrity's deeper truths
Friday, 30 October 2009
Johann Hari: It is like sugar - a little is fun, too much is deadly
The three fallacies that have driven Afghan war
Wednesday, 21 October 2009
Johann Hari: The case for escalating the war is based on premises that turn to dust on inspection
Johann Hari: From North Carolina, a model of how to transform education
Friday, 16 October 2009
It's proven that schools will succeed if they are genuinely comprehensive
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Columnist Comments
• Andrew Grice: Enough of the philosophy, Mr Cameron.
Think-tanks play an important role in politics. But they have their limits.
• Christina Patterson: Very nice - but forgiveness is overrated
Sometimes, as Lydon sang, in his post Sex Pistols band, 'anger is an energy.'
• Mary Dejevsky: Why not call Blair now and wrap it up?
The enquiry already seems like a sideline as the queues dwindle.
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