Johann Hari
Johann Hari: Gay-bashing should not be a hate crime
Published: 11 October 2007
It's always strange and sad when you have to disagree with people who have purely good motives and purely good goals. Over the past week, I have smacked into disagreement twice with friends and allies in the fight for equality for gay people. Both times, the rows have boiled down to one core question: should the people who hate and detest us just because of a trivial and irreversible biological fact – homosexuality – be subject to extra criminal sanctions?
Johann Hari: Why is Labour selling its soul to right-wing myths?
Published: 10 October 2007
A right-wing campaign to strangle one of the most progressive forms of taxation has just hopped, skipped and jumped to the victory post – in a Labour Comprehensive Spending Review.
Johann Hari: There is a major design flaw in our democracy
Published: 08 October 2007
Johann Hari: Should Che be an icon? No
Published: 06 October 2007
Johann Hari: The last green taboo: engineering the planet
Published: 04 October 2007
"Geo-engineering" sounds like a bland and technical term – but it is actually a Messianic movement to save the world from global warming, through dust and iron and thousands of tiny mirrors in space. It is also the last green taboo. Environmentalists instinctively do not want to discuss it. The wider public instinctively think it is mad. But last week, the taboo was breached. James Lovelock – one of the founding fathers of modern environmentalism – proposed a way to slash global warming without cutting back on a single fossil fuel.
Johann Hari: President Giuliani? He'd be worse than Bush
Published: 01 October 2007
Johann Hari: Death on the building site: an unseen tragedy
Published: 27 September 2007
While the Labour conference leaves the seaside with a confident strut, an untold, unnoticed national scandal is picking off labour-with-a-small-l. Every year now, 77 or more people are killed on Britain's construction sites - with a massive rise of 30 per cent in 2006 alone. It's even worse in house-building: the number of people who had their heads or bodies crushed in that sector doubled last year. And it is all, alas, because of the policies of Labour.
Johann Hari: Hatred and bigotry in the playground
Published: 06 September 2007
This week it is 50 years – and an eternity – since the publication of the Wolfenden report, which began to rip up the laws that turned gay people into criminals.
Johann Hari: The last thing we need is coal-fired power
Published: 03 September 2007
In the next month, a decision will land on Gordon Brown's desk that will tell us how seriously he takes the greatest crisis facing us all – the drastic destabilisation of our planet's climate. The harbingers are dark. He has already personally championed the growth of the greenhouse gas factory known as Heathrow Airport, and appointed the airline lobbyist Digby Jones to the Government to further its case.
Johann Hari: Tragic victims of a self-defeating policy
Published: 30 August 2007
This is the story of two victims of a war that cannot be won and should not be fought. You have heard of the first: Rhys Jones, the 11-year-old in Liverpool who was shot in the neck as he played on his bike. You have not heard of the second: Andres Sauzo, a 24-year-old Mexican man who had his arms, legs and head chain-sawed from his body, and was found rotting in five bin bags scattered across his home town of Zihyatanejo. They are casualties – either direct or indirect – in a war that kills tens of thousands of people a year, and could end tomorrow, if we chose to.
Johann Hari: Need Iraq suffer more if we pull out?
Published: 27 August 2007
As it bleeds into its fifth year, the Iraq war is excelling only in savagery and surrealism. We now have an American President publicly citing the similarities to Vietnam as a reason why the US must not[ital] withdraw - and he is merrily quoting Graham Greene's anti-war masterpiece 'The Quiet American' in his defence. Far from thinking anything has gone wrong, he declares: "I think the Iraqi people owe the American people a great debt of gratitude. That's the problem here in America. They wonder whether or not there is a gratitude level that's significant enough in Iraq."
Johann Hari: We all benefit from these mass outpourings
Published: 20 August 2007
Johann Hari: We must pay attention to Pakistan
Published: 15 August 2007
Johann Hari: We should all be at Heathrow protesting
Published: 13 August 2007
Johann Hari: Time to stop mollycoddling the countryside and to start nurturing our cities instead
Published: 06 August 2007
Johann Hari: 'Big Brother' and the failed generation
Published: 02 August 2007
Johann Hari: Your pension is funding this genocide
Published: 30 July 2007
Johann Hari: The pro-war left's disastrous misjudgment
Published: 23 July 2007
Johann Hari: Campbell's diaries make a twisted sort of sense
Published: 16 July 2007
Johann Hari: The very worst policy to combat drugs
Published: 12 July 2007
Johann Hari: Free speech must apply even to the odious
Published: 09 July 2007
Johann Hari: The future of the Earth depends on China
Published: 05 July 2007
Johann Hari: The jihadis hate not just the worst acts of our rulers, but the best aspects of our society
Published: 02 July 2007
Johann Hari: The truths that Brown must acknowledge
Published: 28 June 2007
Johann Hari: Here's one challenge Brown can take on... shutting down the world's tax havens
Published: 25 June 2007
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