Matthew Tempest
Matthew Tempest is a British journalist based in Paris for an agency that he joined in late 2007. He was formerly a political correspondent and blogger for TheGuardian.com, a British news and media website owned by the Guardian Media Group, which he joined in 2001. While studying English at University College, London, he was a member of UCL Film Society with Christopher Nolan.
In 2004 he worked in Berlin for Der Spiegel online, courtesy of a grant from the Internationale-Journalisten Programme.
Before joining The Guardian he was a parliamentary reporter for the Sunday People after two years at the Daily Mirror and Sunday Mirror.
His interests in his writing include transport, the environment and alternative politics outside mainstream British politics in Westminster, including Greens, socialist factions, social movements and protests.