Matthew Tempest is a British journalist and documentary film-maker now living in Berlin, as editor of EUobserver.com after postings in Paris for AFP, and in Brussels covering Brexit. He was formerly a political

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, which he joined in 2001 as the paper's first online Westminster reporter, pioneering live-blogging of PMQs and the 2001 general election, and interviewed Noam Chomsky and Harold Pinter. While studying English at

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, he was a contemporary at UCL Film Society with

Christopher Nolan Christopher Edward Nolan (born 30 July 1970) is a British-American filmmaker. Known for his lucrative Hollywood blockbusters with complex storytelling, Nolan is considered a leading filmmaker of the 21st century. His films have grossed $5&nb ...

. In 2004 he worked in Berlin for '' Der Spiegel'' online, courtesy of a grant from the International Journalist Programme (IJP). Before joining ''

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'' he was a parliamentary reporter for the '' Sunday People'' after two years at the ''

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'' and '' Sunday Mirror''in London, Glasgow and Belfast. His interests in his writing include architecture, transport, the environment and alternative politics outside mainstream British politics in

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, including Greens, socialist factions, social movements and protests. He is the author the Modern Berlin Map of 20th Century Architecture (Blue Crow Media, 2016), and a contributor to the Time Out Guide to Berlin (2012).

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