Reflections of a stormy petrel

British journalist Johann Hari is a very bad human being. This is the assessment of him I have made since I first read his Independent columns, ten years ago or more. I have long refused to read anything with his signature. And quite frankly, I find it absurd that, after a professional lifetime of lies, hate speech and persecution, he should only be caught on the comparatively minor matter of plagiarism. Even more incredible, he had apparently been doing it for long and had repeatedly been denounced for it - Noam Chomsky, of all people, was reportedly "incandescent" at his abuse of quotes - why do the industry and the reading public only wake up to his villainy now?