Matthew Tempest
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Matthew Tempest is a political journalist and blogger for Guardian Unlimited, the Guardian newspaper's London-based website. He formerly contributed a column to Red Pepper magazine, a British left-wing political monthly.
He first became a parliamentary reporter while working for the Sunday People and has also worked for the Daily Mirror, where he began his career.
His interests in his writing include transport, the environment and alternative / radical politics outside mainstream British politics in Westminster, including Greens, socialist factions, social movements and protests.
He travelled with participants to the 2003 European Social Forum in Paris, France, and maintained a reporter's blog for Guardian Unlimited. He has interviewed Noam Chomsky on several occasions and revealed the professor's endorsement of John Kerry's 'Bush-lite' candidacy in the 2004 US election.
A keen trichologist, Tempest's passions also include independent films and documentaries, architecture, cycling, the films of Krzysztof Kieślowski and the music of Bob Dylan. In his writings, he sometimes refers to himself as a "Bobcat".
Autumn 2006 sees the release of his first long-player album, Tempest Sings Dylan (sleeve pictured right).
