Johann Hari
Johann Hari
Johann Hari is an award-winning journalist who began his career as a staff reporter for the New Statesman in 2001 and now writes for the Independent, The Guardian, the New York Times, Le Monde, The Melbourne Age, South Africa's Star, The Irish Times, and a wide range of other international newspapers and magazines. He is a Senior Contributing Editor to Attitude, Britain's best-selling gay magazine.
In 2007 he was named Newspaper Journalist of the Year by Amnesty International for his reporting on the war in Congo. He has been nominated for many other awards, including Columnist of the Year at the British Press Awards. He has reported from Iraq, the Gaza Strip, the Congo, Bangladesh, India, the United States, Venezuela, Rwanda, Peru, Mexico, the Central African Republic, Syria and the United States.
He has appeared as a commentator on CNN, NBC's Today program, the BBC's Question Time and Newsnight, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and others. He appears regularly as an arts critic on Newsnight Review.
His website is johannhari.com
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Telegraph, 21 August 2008
The fact that this case was won while another case – that of 16- year old Lydia Playfoot and her claim in 2007 to want to wear a “chastity ring” in school – was thrown out of court seems in itself to be discriminatory.
Government transitional safeguards to protect the jobs and promotion prospects of head teachers and teachers already in post in Voluntary Controlled faith schools breach natural justice and are discriminatory, says the National Secular Society.