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: We have everything to fear from McCain

When the almost six billion of us outside the US watch the contest for The Most Powerful Man in the World, we tend to focus on the candidates' foreign policies. If I was Iranian, say, I'd be anxious that John McCain keeps joking in public about killing me. As a bravo-bow after singing "bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran" to the tune of the Beach Boys melody Barbra Ann, he responded to being told exports of cigarettes to Iran are high by guffawing: "That's a way of killing them!"

Recently by Johann Hari

Johann Hari: Our cry for cheap oil is crude and deadly

Monday, 14 July 2008

The Niger Delta should now be an oasis of riches. But the people live with nothing

Johann Hari: What sort of freedom do you believe in?

Wednesday, 9 July 2008

In a lush patch of Yorkshire, something strange is happening. The quaint practice of a British by-election has thrown up a serious philosophical debate about what it means to be free. Sure, to get to it, you have to jostle past the silicone implants of the Miss Great Britain Party, David Icke's seven-foot lizards plotting world domination, and the Westminster correspondent-flock wondering what it all means back in SW1. You have to burrow deep, and listen hard. But if you do, you can begin to see what liberty will look like in a techno-charged 21st century.

Johann Hari: Lies, kidnapping and a mysterious laptop

Monday, 7 July 2008

You have been told that the Venezuelan President supports the Farc thugs

Johann Hari: Science is thrilling – except in our schools

Thursday, 3 July 2008

In a moment, I am going to say some words, and I want to know if you begin to drift into a coma. The periodic table. Bunsen burner. Photosynthesis. Eyelids heavy yet? Teat pipette. Petri dishes of mould. Magnezzzzzzzium.

Johann Hari: Harman could yet give Labour its legacy

Monday, 30 June 2008

Her Equality Bill is a glistening reminder of what a Labour government is for

Johann Hari: The zimmer-frame of progress rolls on

Monday, 30 June 2008

It is hard to think of a scenario more likely to strike horror into Ministers: a series of high-profile murder convictions are overturned because of a legal loophole.

Johann Hari: Our infantile search for heroic leaders

Thursday, 26 June 2008

Do you find yourself staring at the television and pining for a good leader – a person who will rise and make the world right again? Do you long for a Mandela, a Churchill, a Gandhi? Then grow up. Our political debate – what passes for it – increasingly focuses on a search for an elusive Messianic leader who will show us the way. This is the opposite of rational politics.

Johann Hari: When two sides of Islam go head to head

Monday, 23 June 2008

As a country, we can spend countless hours discussing rival teams of men kicking a piece of plastic into a net. But we are all supposed to be shame-faced about discussing the fantastically complex dramas called Reality TV. Well, I'm not.

Johann Hari: There is a smart drug – it's called breast milk

Thursday, 19 June 2008

Imagine if today, scientists discovered a drug that could save 13 per cent of all the babies who currently die. Now imagine that drug also made your baby cleverer – and dramatically slashed her chances of developing heart disease, diabetes, leukaemia, asthma or obesity as an adult. Oh: and imagine it was free.