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Johann Hari: A personal apology

I’ve written so many articles over the years laying bare and polemicising against the errors and idiocies of other people. This time, I am writing an article laying bare and polemicising against the errors and idiocies of myself. If you give it out, you have to take it. If you demand high standards of others, you have to be just as damning when you fail to uphold them yourself.

Johann Hari: Would you trust a management consultant with the world's rainforests?

Our protests stopped David Cameron handing UK forests over to corporations. Now the rainforests are being handed to management consultants

Johann Hari: My journalism is at the centre of a storm. This is what I have learned

Johann Hari's professional reputation has been subjected to trial by Twitter. Here he explains what the affair has taught him

Johann Hari: How to survive the age of distraction

Read a book with your laptop thrumming. It can feel like trying to read in the middle of a party where everyone is shouting

Johann Hari: Cheap meat, MRSA and deadly greed

If they aren't stopped soon, the WHO warns we are facing a 'doomsday scenario of a world without antibiotics'

Johann Hari: Spare us the fawning over Prince Philip

When Elizabeth became the Queen, he was forced to quit his job in the Navy, and became depressed for months

A slower pace in the city that never sleeps

After joining a rambling tour of New York, Johann Hari sees the city in a new light

Johann Hari: It's not just Dominique Strauss-Kahn. The IMF itself should be on trial

Imagine a prominent figure was charged, not with raping a hotel maid, but with starving her, and her family, to death

Johann Hari: A turning-point we miss at our peril

We have the choice of burning all the oil left and hacking down all the remaining rainforests - or saving humanity

Up In Flames: Cameron's pledge to lead the greenest government ever

Johann Hari on an environmental disaster in the making

Johann Hari: The real meaning of Bin Laden's death

As soon as the news broke, I went to Times Square and witnessed a scene that hinted at the complexities

Johann Hari: Donald Trump's lunacy reveals core truth about the Republicans

He is the Republican <i>id</i> - finally entirely unleashed from all restraint and reality

Johann Hari: Thanks to Cameron, more men like this will die

Mark Wright died at work, in an accident that could have been prevented. Yet the Prime Minister's cuts to the Health and Safety Executive will cost more lives

Johann Hari: If you get the X Factor you'll get AV

You can vote No with David Cameron, the BNP and a campaign that thinks you are too thick to count to three

Johann Hari: This royal frenzy should embarrass us all

Republicans are not the Grinch, trying to ruin the 'big day' for William and Kate. We are proposing a positive vision

Day In a Page

The data goldmine: Why forgetting to log out can cost you dearly

Data goldmine: Have you forgotten to log out?

David Crookes finds out how much stolen Twitter accounts, hacked eBay pages and more are really worth.
The 10 best free games

The 10 best free games

From The Secret of Grisly Manor to Words With Friends...
Fear and loathing in London: The Death of Klinghoffer is staged in the capital for the first time

Fear and loathing in London: The Death of Klinghoffer

The ENO is staging the controversial opera in the capital for the first time
'Today, Rita could have signed up to Open University on Facebook'

'Rita could have signed up to Open University on Facebook'

The OU's famous fictional student wouldn't recognise the video-conferencing, social networking, flexible insitution it's grown into.
Kenya's coffee wars

Kenya's coffee wars

The boom in high-grade beans should be bringing rural Africa riches. Instead, it is fuelling a lethal crimewave
Billions of tons of water lost from world's glaciers, satellite reveals

Climate change

Billions of tons of water lost from world's glaciers, satellite reveals
Out of fashion: Designers finding new ways to sell their style

Out of fashion

Designers finding new ways to sell their style
James Lawton: Sadness and anger over the ultimate betrayal

James Lawton on Capello resignation

Sadness and anger over the ultimate betrayal
Tale of the trial: Laughter, anger... and bulldogs

Tale of the trial: Laughter, anger... and bulldogs

Redknapp's trial was the most remarkable and colourful case the modern game has seen. Sam Wallace, who was there for all 13 days, recounts the defining moments
Rhys Priestland: Praise for North star

Rhys Priestland: Praise for North star

The Wales No 10 may not be getting his kicks but he's not concerned... he plays with George North
Yayoi Kusama brings colour to Tate Modern

Colourful Yayoi Kusama

Japanese artist's retrospective at Tate Modern.
Church debate: Who'd be a bishop?

Church debate: Who'd be a bishop?

The General Synod debates women bishops again today. While they make up their minds, John Walsh weighs the palaces and puce robes against the political powerlessness
A tale of two cities: Portsmouth and London say happy birthday to Dickens

A tale of two cities

Portsmouth and London say happy birthday to Dickens
Pitch battle! Football league in Argentina renamed in honour of 'General Belgrano'

Pitch battle in Argentina!

Football league renamed in honour of 'General Belgrano'
Altar of Bones: A literary sensation – but who dunnit?

A literary sensation – but who dunnit?

The books world mulls over the identity of an acclaimed new author, but what drives writers to hide behind a nom de plume?