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Johann Hari

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: Almost everywhere is touched by the Stonewall riots now

Homosexuality happens everywhere, so gays fight to be themselves everywhere

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Johann Hari: When divorce is the wiser option

Friday, 26 June 2009

Cameron's solution to a 'broken Britain' would harm children and break us more

A fight for the Amazon that should inspire the world

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 electorate just booted Brown, brown-shirt nostalgists and browning-off Europe to the top of Britain's agenda. The ticking will only get louder if we try to brush these bombs under the Westminster carpet ? and carry on as if the people have not spoken.

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.

Bluefin tuna is being over-fished and its numbers can't be sustained, scientists say

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

Do right by the Kenyan victims of British brutality

Friday, 29 May 2009

Johann Hari: There remains a blood- encrusted blank spot when it comes to Empire. We owe it to them to do right.

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