One plus – dealing with the state licensing issue – is that it would be an industry-run scheme. A second is that it could deal with Johann Hari-like problems, making it easy for a journalist to be struck off, or rather barred from future employment...

How can you retrain someone who was never trained in the first place? Well, in the certain expectation I will never be asked to do it, I hereby offer to train Johann Hari. If he wants to spend three months with me rather than attending seminars on the...

I often learned the most from the more critical messages – you have talked me out of a dozen positions – but your supportive letters and emails since last July have hugely moved me. "I’ll continue to be a loyal reader and supporter of the Independent. ...

“O God, let justice flow like a river,” they pray, hoping desperately for the water to turn red. On that count, they might as well pray to win the lottery: His Grace is firmly persuaded that the Lord wants Ed Miliband to become Prime Minister of the...

Hari took the decision not to return after his suspension on plagiarism claims, because he said he did not want the paper to "take the flack [sic]" for his actions. But Hari, writing on his website, said that after "plenty of time to reflect" he had...

Hari, the Independent writer exposed for plagiarism, has declined an offer to return to work at the paper. Hari announced he would not return to work for the newspaper because he did not want others to "take the flak" for his actions. Last week, Chris...