Kae Tempest (formerly Kate Tempest) is an English spoken word performer, poet, recording artist, novelist and playwright.
At the age of 16, Tempest was accepted into the BRIT School for Performing Arts and Technology in Croydon. In 2013, he won the Ted Hughes Award for his work Brand New Ancients. He was named a Next Generation Poet by the Poetry Book Society, a once-a-decade accolade. Tempest's albums Everybody Down and Let Them Eat Chaos have been nominated for the Mercury Music Prize. An accompanying poetry book for the latter album (also titled Let Them Eat Chaos) was nominated for the Costa Book of the Year in the Poetry Category. His debut novel The Bricks That Built the Houses was a Sunday Times best-seller and won the 2017 Books Are My Bag Readers Award for Breakthrough Author. He was nominated as Best Female Solo Performer at the 2018 Brit Awards. Tempest came out as non-binary in 2020, then as a trans man in 2025.
Tempest released his fifth studio album Self Titled in 2025, via Island Records, and his forthcoming novel, Having Spent Life Seeking, is due to be released on 30 April 2026.
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Date: 22 December 1985
International A Presidential report makes charges against Moscow concerning Soviet compliance with arms-control treaties, and modifies some earlier allegations in the light of recently acquired evidence. The report to Congress generally reaffirms earlier Administration charges that there ''is a pattern of Soviet noncompliance'' with arms-control agreements. [Page 1, Column 6.]
Date: 23 December 1985
International Winnie Mandela was arrested by the South African police after she defied a ban imposed Saturday forbidding her to enter Soweto, the huge segregated black township near Johannesburg. The order for her exclusion from Soweto relaxed previous restrictions on her activities in force since 1977, which exiled her to the remote town of Brandfort. Her lawyers said he had been taken to detention in Krugersdorp, which is southwest of Johannesburg. [Page A1, Column 6.] Moscow's proposal for a moratorium on nuclear testing is a potentially positive development, some Reagan Administration officials said despite the public rejection by the Administration. Mikhail S. Gorbachev, the Soviet leader, proposed in a letter dated Dec. 5 that the United States join a moratorium on the underground nuclear testing. [A1:1.]
Date: 22 December 1985
Special to the New York Times
On Sunday afternoons, Helen Richards, correspondent for The Elmer Times, starts phoning for news in Daretown and Aldine. She has 70 names, and by the time she is done at 9 P.M. - she would never call past 9 - she has phoned half the homes in the area and knows the news. ''They get talking, they tell you all their troubles,'' Mrs. Richards said. Most of it will not go in the paper. ''Oh, no,'' she said, ''they wouldn't want it in.'' If she hears that someone had an operation, she will wait until the person is home to print it, so burglars don't get ideas. ''I'll not put it in until it's stale news,'' she said. She puts in vacations when they are over, too.
Date: 23 December 1985
Special to the New York Times
All that Norma Greenaway, a Washington correspondent for Canadian Press, Canada's major news service, wanted were White House press credentials. But she was unwilling to pay the price.
Date: 23 December 1985
By Philip H. Dougherty
Philip Dougherty
Margaret Byrne Heimbold is leaving her position as publisher of American Film magazine to assume a similar role at Historic Preservation and Preservation News, the former a six-a-year magazine and the latter a monthly tabloid. The headquarters are in Washington.
Date: 23 December 1985
AP
Britain appealed today for kidnappers to release Alec Collett, a British journalist held in Lebanon, but said it would not make a deal for his freedom. Timothy Renton, a minister of state at the Foreign Office, said the release of Mr. Collett, who has been held since March 25, would do more to advance the Palestinian cause ''than anything else.''
Date: 23 December 1985
By Joseph Lelyveld, Special To the New York Times
Joseph Lelyveld
Eddie Shah works from an office that is about three miles away from Fleet Street, the natural habitat of English newspapers. He has never set foot in a Fleet Street newspaper, he says, and has never laid eyes on a Linotype machine - the outmoded hot-metal printing machine still in use on every national newspaper in Britain as a result of the inflexible resistance of a plethora of labor unions to the introduction of new technology. Yet, in a period of upheaval on Fleet Street, Mr. Shah's name comes up quickly in any conversation on the future of the newspaper industry in a nation that retains a ravenous appetite, despite television, for printed news and opinion, printed gossip and - in the popular tabloids - printed photos of bare-breasted women. Mr. Shah, 41 years old, broke into the business in the provinces as the publisher of a string of giveaway papers. He may not be of the Fleet Street world, but he is the vanguard of the technological revolution that is finally looming.
Date: 23 December 1985
By Michael R. Gordon, Special To the New York Times
Michael Gordon
Although the Reagan Administration has publicly rejected the Soviet Union's proposal for a moratorium on nuclear testing, some Administration officials say they still see the Soviet move as a potentially positive development. In a Dec. 5 letter to President Reagan, Mikhail S. Gorbachev, the Soviet leader, proposed that the United States join Moscow's current unilateral moratorium on the underground testing of nuclear weapons, the only tests now permitted. He said that under the moratorium, observers could visit each side's territory to investigate ''ambiguous phenomena'' and resolve ''possible doubts'' about compliance. Mr. Gorbachev also proposed resuming talks with the United States and Britain on a comprehensive ban on underground nuclear tests. Negotiations on such an agreement were carried out during the Carter Administration, but the Reagan Administration has not sought to resume them.
Date: 22 December 1985
By Susan F. Rasky, Special To the New York Times
Susan Rasky
The Soviet Union has provided SA-5 long-range ground-to-air missiles to Libya that would pose a threat to aircraft in disputed areas of the Mediterranean, according to the State Department. A longstanding dispute between the United States and Libya over Libyan territorial claims in the Mediterranean has led to serious clashes in recent years. The SA-5 is one of the largest surface-to-air missiles ever built and is the Soviet Union's principal high-altitude air defense missile. It has a range of 150 miles and has been a part of Syria's Soviet-supplied arsenal since 1982.
Date: 22 December 1985
By Stephen Kinzer, Special To the New York Times
Stephen Kinzer
President Daniel Ortega Saavedra said today that he would not lift Nicaragua's state of emergency despite an appeal that he said he recently received from more than 80 members of the United States Congress. The state of emergency, which limits many public liberties, has been in effect for two months. In an address to the National Assembly and members of the diplomatic corps, Mr. Ortega warned Congress against approving military aid for rebels fighting his Government.