Reportage

To paradise by way of Kensal Green.

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The Parkour training school in Kensal Green

You should have seen Economy

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A man has to make a living

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On the frontline, for MSN

Reporting around the world as MSN’s Foreign Correspondent.

Scrum down for Mr Ten Percent.

Benhammersley2008-02-1915-45-31 The press conference held by Asif Ali Zadari, the widower of Benazir Bhutto.

This morning in Pakistan

Via, Our extensive coverage of Pakistan’s elections and my bit as MSN’s Foreign Correspondent…Ballot paper design in a semi-literate society. A ballot paper from the 2008 Pakistan General Elections

Hail, hail, the gangs all here

I’ve been going to dangerous places with my camera for eight years or so now, and it doesn’t get any easier. More planned and nuanced in the preparation, for sure, but then more ambitious into the bargain too. So sat, as I am as I type this, in Heathrow only to find that between leaving the house and arriving at the airport more people have been killed in the place you’re travelling to is no less sobering today that it would have been when I was 23. Time to go over my mental checklists once again. Still, LHR-4 is entertainingly full of like-minded souls. You can’t really move around gate 22 without tripping over blokes in khaki trousers and expensive hard-shell carry-on bags; the check-in desk was a sea of Pellicases and tripods. In the old days we’d be stocking up on duty free Johnnie Walker Red Label and cartons of Marlboro, for bribing purposes if nothing else, but there’s little sign of that today. No one is wearing a safari jacket either. Something of a rum show, if you ask me.

Radio 4, Analysis, “With Friends Like These”

Why are people happy to disclose huge amounts of personal information online, especially to social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace? In a programme for BBC Radio 4 I asked whether our notion of privacy has changed and what the consequences for society might be.
 
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Broadcast history

Zamboanga Cockfighting

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Basilan Insurgency, Philippines

In October 2007, I travelled to Basilan, an island off the south of the Philippines, where the Philippine Marines are fighting the allegedly al-qaeda related group Abu Sayyaf. I wrote about the trip, as I went, here on the Frontline Club blog.

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