Independent columnist, Johann Hari, is up for four awards at this year’s Editorial Intelligence Comment Awards, making him the most-nominated commentator across all categories.

He notches up four of the five nominations the Independent has been shortlisted for, including Commentariat of the Year, Best Environmental Comment, Cultural Commentator and Poison Pen: Polemicist of the Year.

Hari is no stranger to award ceremonies, last year he was the youngest person ever to be awarded the George Orwell Prize and in 2007 he was named Newspaper Journalist of the Year by Amnesty International.