Nobody's business but the Turks

24 June 2007. Inspired by one man, one producer, one hero.

While I pootle around New York for another month, Hammersley seems to have turned into some kind of head-nodding, "I'm standing here" man-beast, marching through the Middle East like a slimmer John Simpson. He Twitters here, blogs at the usual channel and you can see him nodding and reporting, from a land of contrasts, live, for BBC World viewers, standing here, where the mood today is calm, above.