Tom is GP's Online Editor and researcher at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Tom Kirk
Post Archive
For the International Development Department’s Cutting Edge Issues in Development lecture series last Friday, Kevin Watkins of Save the Children gave a compelling talk…
Marie Curie, Rita Levi-Montalcini, Brenda Milner, Martha Salcudean, Julie Payette, Halle Tanner Dillon Johnson. What do these names bring to mind?
They are women whose pioneering…
Ask a group of scientists “What is Earth?” and you may be in for a surprise.
“Earth is a sinusoidal signal in velocity with a period of a year, and an amplitude of 10 cm/s," an…
The embrace of "remote warfare" to manage conflict seeds disaster.
A week containing escalation of India-Pakistan crisis over Kashmir and the hollow spectacle of a second Donald…
Ambre Eyoum, a Multilateral and Corporate Affairs manager at Total and a Global Governance Futures 2030 fellow, explores the ways oil and gas industry can adjust to face some of…
As part of LSE Festival: New World (Dis)Orders, running between 25 February and 2 March 2019, author Sam Byers is participating on a panel discussing…
As the consequences of Brexit reveal themselves, Carmen Raluca Stoian explains why big business is likely to disperse around the globe.
Ever since the EU referendum…
This is the text of a speech delivered at the Cambridge Union in defense of the proposition: This house believes that British aid is not working.
Ladies and gentlemen, it is vital…
Supercomputers have the potential to turn us into superhumans. Our potential and power increase in lockstep with to the tools we have to serve us.
The World Economic Forum’s…
By now, most of us have heard that the use of plastics is a big issue for the environment. Partly fuelled by the success of the BBC’s Blue Planet II series, people are more…
Climate politics are changing. Beyond “politics as usual,” climate politics are becoming existential: climate-forcing and climate-vulnerable interests are both fighting for…
The crisis that hit members of the Eurozone a decade ago has often been attributed to design flaws in Europe’s Economic and Monetary Union. Drawing on a new study, Andreas…
Activists are increasingly targeting businesses – from oil companies to gun manufacturers – on the stock market. But can this strategy lead to lasting change?
A surprising concern…
Book Review – From Summits to Solutions: Innovations in Implementing the Sustainable Development Goals edited by Raj M. Desai, Hiroshi Kato, Homi Kharas, and John W. McArthur.…
Julie Louise Gerberding on the global lack of preparedness for epidemics.
Nipah virus, Lassa virus, Chikungunya virus, and MERS-CoV – these viruses are unfamiliar to…