Tom Kirk

Tom is GP's Online Editor and researcher at the London School of Economics and Political Science. 

Post Archive

20 March 2017
This interview was conducted by Joel Sandhu for the Global Governance Futures – Robert Bosch Foundation Multilateral Dialogues, which brings together young professionals to…
16 March 2017
Human rights regimes such as the European Convention on Human Rights are unlikely to shield citizens against the wave of authoritarianism threatening liberal democracies. Shortly…
15 March 2017
The 12th March was the world wide web’s 28th birthday. Here’s a message from its inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee on how the web has evolved, and what we must do to…
15 March 2017
Democracy is in decline. The Economist Intelligence Unit’s (EIU) latest Democracy Index 2016 shows 72 countries experienced a decline in democratic values last year.…
14 March 2017
Placing Outer Space: An Earthly Ethnography of Other Worlds. Lisa Messeri. Duke University Press. 2016. In Placing Outer Space: An Earthly Ethnography of Other Worlds, Lisa…
13 March 2017
Dr Nicola Rollock, lead author of the award-winning book The Colour of Class: the educational strategies of the Black middle classes, discusses race, equality and education…
10 March 2017
The Econocracy: The Perils of Leaving Economics to the Experts. Joe Earle, Cahal Moran and Zach Ward-Perkins. Manchester University Press. 2016. In The Econocracy: The Perils of…
10 March 2017
Garth Le Pere explores Africa’s ongoing climb out of a peripheral global position and how the international community can work with it. Despite the recent discourse about…
09 March 2017
Josh Powell, Chief Strategy Officer at the Development Gateway weighs in on the Data and Development debate. While development actors are now creating more data than ever,…
09 March 2017
Many observers are expecting a hard Brexit to take place. But what is the most likely outcome of the upcoming Brexit negotiations and how can the UK minimise any negative economic…
08 March 2017
In part 2, Nikolaos Karagiannis briefly presents and criticizes the Moody’s report on the downgrading of The Bahamas, and discusses aspects of a holistic development…
07 March 2017
Can we transform the renting economy of Uber and AirBnB into a genuine sharing one? Platform cooperatives must become open and commons-oriented. “What if this is not…
06 March 2017
In 1984 the Mexico City Policy, or ‘global gag rule’, was enacted by the United States, restricting federal funds to international family planning institutions…