Tom Kirk

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

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Madhu Raghavendra and Amiya Kumar Das highlight that India is strengthening its maternal health governance through comprehensive national programmes that address health and social…
The Back Channel: A Memoir of American Diplomacy and the Case for its Renewal by William J. Burns. New York: Random House, 2019. Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the…
The next Group of Seven meeting is around the corner and the French President Emmanuel Macron is shining a spotlight on economic polarization. But will the world’s leading…
From mobile phones to reusable rockets, today we live with inventions that were once considered science fiction. These innovations have also affected our general living standards…
George Osborne, the former UK Chancellor of the Exchequer, is touting himself as the next head of the International Monetary Fund. He is hoping to fill the forthcoming vacancy as…
Today is my second happiest day in government. With these words, Donald Trump’s national security advisor, John R. Bolton, hailed the decision by the International Criminal Court…
Sentientist Politics: A Theory of Global Inter-Species Justice by Alasdair Cochrane. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. 162 pp., £55.00 hardcover 978-0-198-78980-2 This book…
Aidy Halimanjaya argues that Jokowi’s focus should be on pushing forward Indonesia’s energy sector reforms. President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo’s plan to move the Indonesia’s capital…
International Media Centre – G20 Osaka Summit. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have been at the centre of the last four G20 summits. In 2015, at the Antalya Summit, world…
International Media Centre – G20 Osaka Summit. It’s difficult to imagine a better backdrop for the G20 commemorative ‘family’ photograph than Osaka Castle, a magnificent structure…
International Media Centre – G20 Osaka Summit. If your only experience of Japan was two days holed up with the global media in the Osaka Intex centre for this year’s G20, you’d be…
International Media Centre – G20 Osaka Summit. A recent report by the Union of Kansai Governments has estimated that almost 10 million pieces of plastic bags are currently adrift…
International Media Centre - G20 Osaka Summit. The circulation of US daily newspapers is at its lowest since the 1940s thanks to the growing influence of social media in an…
International Media Centre – G20 Osaka Summit. In the modern world, there are endless reasons to be stressed. The planet is dying, rent is too high, and worst of all, the coffee…