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

It’s time to treat dirty money like speeding cars

There can be no more excuses for laundering cash

By Tom Burgis

/ 28 Sep 2020

It’s time to treat dirty money like speeding cars

South Africa’s unequal prospect

The vista from among the shacks, hubbub and agonies of Alexandra says it all. Towering beyond the crumbling hostels built for the township's migrant mineworkers are two skyscrapers

By Tom Burgis

/ 5 Aug 2009

A Loong and winding road

If there is one offence that makes Singapore's prime minister Lee Hsien Loong a worthy Worst Democrat of 2006, it is the lone, corrosive idea he has peddled

By Tom Burgis

/ 21 Dec 2006

Addicted: William Burroughs and a world in heat

In 1966 the justices of the Massachusetts supreme court were asked to deliver a judgment in the United States's last great censorship trial. A year earlier, a Boston

By Tom Burgis

/ 3 Nov 2006

Democracy bites

On Monday 23 October 2006, hours before a mixture of protest and remembrance marked the fiftieth anniversary of the Hungarian uprising against Soviet rule, a sophisticated assault on openDemocracy'

By Tom Burgis

/ 30 Oct 2006

Like a trim, tanned Saint Nicholas, Keith Rupert Murdoch has given us everything we always wanted: round-the-clock sport on our televisions; topless women on our breakfast tables; courageous newspapers that

By Tom Burgis

/ 1 Oct 2006

A guide to the post-9/11 world

▪ Targeted killings ▪ New York City ▪ Detention ▪ Trade ▪ Rendition ▪ International law ▪ Al-Qaida ▪ Islam ▪ Weapons of Mass Destruction ▪ Travel ▪ Plus ca change… Targeted killings Defined as "the purposeful killing of a

By Tom Burgis

/ 7 Sep 2006

G8gate

Guy Taylor has devoted a significant portion of his adult life to making a nuisance of himself at the annual summits of the Group of Eight industrialised nations – the club

By Tom Burgis

/ 31 Aug 2006

The skewed pride of the IDF

Poring over the numbers of servicemen, servicewomen and reservists that comprise the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) which can now count victory in July's Bad Democracy Award among its

By Tom Burgis

/ 31 Jul 2006

North Koreas Dr No

Kim Jong-il is not a big bedtime reader. His evenings are spent, we learn from North Korean defectors, guzzling sushi, swilling fine French wine and cavorting with scores of hand-picked

By Tom Burgis

/ 29 Jun 2006

Michelle Bachelet's hard lesson

Michelle Bachelet's honeymoon would seem to be over. One hundred days after becoming the first woman to lead Chile, the new president's approval rating has taken

By Tom Burgis

/ 25 Jun 2006

Singapores phoney democracy

We hope it will be taken the right way if we suggest that, in choosing Lee Hsien Loong, Singapore's prime minister, as the winner of the seventh Bad

By Tom Burgis

/ 31 May 2006