Tom Kirk

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

Post Archive

09 February 2022
This is the fourth of a four-part Global Policy blog series that seeks to spark new ways of thinking about digitally-mediated activism. It engages Timms and Heimans’ New/Old Power…
08 February 2022
How can we teach the next generation to read the news well? For educators, this simple question can be deceptively difficult. Do we want our students to be skeptical of everything…
07 February 2022
The ever-deepening relationship between China and Russia has played a significant role in the current crisis in Ukraine. Many in the West see a connection between Russian…
01 February 2022
Researchers in the global North often make assumptions about the motivations and abilities of local research collaborators in the global South. Not only are these assumptions…
31 January 2022
It’s a common argument among climate deniers: scientific models cannot predict the future, so why should we trust them to tell us how the climate will change? This trope recently…
28 January 2022
Duncan Green explores Oxfam's annual Davos report: The Inequality Virus. I know this is the week of Blue Monday, when we are all supposed to feel at our most miserable, but I’m…
25 January 2022
Talks between Russia and the west have failed. Moscow has described the situation in Ukraine as “intolerable” and “a matter of life or death”. The US president, Joe Biden, has…
18 January 2022
Abdur Rehman Cheema argues that sufficient gender disaggregated data is available in Pakistan, the challenge remains how to use this data to improve gender equality. Sustainable…
07 January 2022
Josh Ettinger on the power and pitfalls of using satire to change the narrative.  The global top three programmes on Netflix currently include the heroic quest of a…
22 December 2021
“We were so hopeful last March when the UN Open-Ended Working Group agreed to endorse all 11 of us voluntary, non-binding norms of responsible state behavior.” With apologies to…