Today, Johann Hari admitted to vandalising his enemies’ Wikipedia entries using the psydonym David Rose.
One of his victims, the writer and Spectator blogger Nick Cohen, suspected so all along. His dairy, from July, is
below:
I learned that Johann Hari was a journalist who was better at attention-seeking than truth-telling when a small American journal asked me to reply to his review of What’s Left, a book of mine on the dark forces in liberal-left politics. I looked at it and was astonished. It was not that he disliked my ideas — he was entitled to disagree — but that he had attacked a book I had not written. He pretended that I believed the West had been right to support Saddam Hussein while he was gassing the Kurds when I had said the opposite. He made up stories about my parents, good people he had never met, to show me in a bad light.
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