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.
Johann Hari: The other 9/11 returns to haunt Latin America
It was inevitable that the people at the top would fight to preserve their privileges
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Johann Hari: Almost everywhere is touched by the Stonewall riots now
Wednesday, 1 July 2009
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Friday, 26 June 2009
Cameron's solution to a 'broken Britain' would harm children and break us more
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Wednesday, 24 June 2009
Johann Hari:: The uprising in the Amazon is more urgent than Iran's - it will determine the future of the planet
Johann Hari: Widdecombe would win my vote
Friday, 19 June 2009
Her politics are the polar opposite of mine. But she is the best candidate for Speaker
Johann Hari: They were great at first – but then the creativity dries up
Friday, 19 June 2009
Last year, I had my own brief experiment with smart drugs. I felt burned out after a series of long foreign assignments, and my brain was rustily chug-chugging along at half-speed. That's when I first read about a drug being billed as "Viagra for the brain" – not Ritalin, but Provigil, a brand name for modafinil.
Johann Hari: Will the looming war between Iran and Israel now be averted?
Wednesday, 17 June 2009
Are we witnessing an anti-1979 – a democratic uprising against the Ayatollahs by the grandchildren of the revolution? On the streets of Tehran, many of the massed millions are chanting: "We will die, but count our votes." The religious police are trying to tear-gas and truncheon this cry into submission, with the possibility of a Tehran Tiananmen hanging in the city's smog. But for today, the secret policemen are in panic and the Ayatollahs are in retreat.
Johann Hari: We're covering our planet with a cloud of space junk
Friday, 12 June 2009
Governments won't even agree to stop adding to the rubbish
The ticking time-bombs under British politics
Wednesday, 10 June 2009
Johann Hari: Last week the British public queued at their polling stations to quietly and politely lay three ticking bombs under British politics.
Could we be the generation that runs out of fish?
Friday, 5 June 2009
Johann Hari: Trawlering is an oceanic weapon of mass destruction
Johann Hari: Sir Alan, sexism and the workplace
Wednesday, 3 June 2009
Watch 'The Apprentice' and see how even the hardest Sugar melts when in hot water
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If he were a boxer, the fight would have been stopped long ago
• Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: Free speech can't be unlimited
We must define the boundaries of what is acceptable on the internet
• Simon Carr: Who's rich when others are richer?
If your neighbour gets a promotion, that could create serious problems
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