Tom Burgis

Tom Burgis is a Financial Times investigations correspondent and the author of Kleptopia: How dirty money is conquering the world, out now from HarperCollins

Making G8 History

The battle of Auchterarder has been fought and lost. More than 5,000 protesters achieved on 6 July 2005 what snow over Prestwick airport could have accomplished the G8 dignitaries

By Tom Burgis

/ 6 Jul 2005

Insider-outsider: the NGO fracture zone

At the G8 summit in Gleneagles on 6-8 July, several of the worlds most powerful leaders will meet to strum guitars, crack jokes and shake their fabulous bodies. The

By Tom Burgis

/ 3 Jul 2005

Arresting development in Chile

A rainy Santiago protest A campaign that began with endangered swans and grew into an indictment of Chilean democracy was stonewalled on 10 June when police rounded up demonstrators in

By Tom Burgis

/ 13 Jun 2005

A little British revolution

Two weeks ago, I wrote an article for openDemocracy about the surge in independent candidacies at the British general election. With 48 hours to go until polling stations open on

By Tom Burgis

/ 3 May 2005

Independent, non-party members of parliament embody a contradiction. In Edmund Burkes terms, are they to be representatives who owe responsibility to their own judgment rather than electors opinion, or

By Tom Burgis

/ 20 Apr 2005

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Making G8 History

Insider-outsider: the NGO fracture zone

Arresting development in Chile

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