John Pilger is a war correspondent, film-maker and author. His latest film is Utopia.
March 2024
Letter: John Pilger obituary
Henry Scott-Irvine writes: I went on to meet the very affable John Pilger there several times
January 2024
Brief letters
When silence is the best endorsement for a campaigning journalist like John Pilger
John Pilger obituary
December 2023
John Pilger, campaigning journalist, dies aged 84
Celebrated Australian journalist and documentary film-maker covered conflicts in Vietnam, Cambodia, Bangladesh and Biafra
November 2021
Max Stahl obituary
Documentary-maker who captured East Timor atrocities on film and left behind his earlier career as a Blue Peter presenter
November 2019
The Dirty War on the National Health Service review – fierce and necessary diatribe
John Pilger’s passionate film addresses threats to the NHS, from the burgeoning presence of private healthcare companies to the invasion of bureaucrats
January 2017
Utopia? Kathleen Ngale is 85 years old and living in conditions I can only describe as hell
Marcus Woolombi Waters
Four years after the John Pilger film lifted the lid on outback communities, what has changed? The horrors are still with us
December 2016
Culture webchats
‘As long as there are hairbrushes, people will sing’ – the best of 2016’s webchats
Observer TV reviews
The week in TV: In Plain Sight; This Is Us; The Coming War on China
Notebook
Sam Shepard and the 30-year drama of my buried memories
Tim Dowling
The Coming War on China review – discomfiting doc exposes US nuclear tactics
March 2016
Greenslade
The Spectator runs a hatchet job on the Frontline Club
Roy Greenslade
American journalist writes an ill-argued, self-serving article about the club for war correspondents and its founder, Vaughan Smith
February 2016
Culture webchats
John Pilger webchat – as it happened
The firebrand journalist answered your questions in a live webchat – taking on everyone from Cameron to Obama and Trump
April 2015
Evicting Indigenous Australians from their homelands is a declaration of war
John Pilger
Australia occasionally interrupts its ‘normal’ mistreatment of Aboriginal people to deliver a frontal assault, like the closure of Western Australia’s homelands
November 2014
Greenslade
Actors, musicians and journalists sign statement supporting Edward Snowden
Greenslade
Arts, media power, digital disruption, investigative journalism - events galore
September 2014
Tony Abbott in Arnhem Land: a display of farce and cynicism
John Pilger
John Pilger: Australia’s prime minister took his government and the media to the NT to better understand the needs of Indigenous Australians. We’re already awash with that knowledge
January 2014
John Pilger's Utopia: meet Felicity and Basil Hayes of Whitegate town camp - video
Felicity and Basil Hayes, the traditional owners and residents of Whitegate town camp in the Northern Territory, have waged a long struggle for housing and basic services. Whitegate town camp is just a 20-minute drive from Alice Springs but the community still has problems with electricity and water supplies
John Pilger's Utopia: Meet Patricia Morton-Thomas - video
Patricia Morton-Thomas is a writer, actor and film-maker. She is a spokesperson for the family of the late Kwementyaye Briscoe, who died in police custody in Alice Springs in 2012. In this clip she talks about her grandfather and her uncle's first encounter with white people, the effect of the Coniston massacre on her family and the effect of the western world on Aboriginal people
Today programme guest-edited by PJ Harvey slated as 'liberal drivel'
BBC accused of allowing WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and journalist John Pilger to air views uncontested on Radio 4 show
