Josh White – The Battleground

UK Editor: Josh White is a journalist based in London. Over the last decade, he has covered UK and EU affairs for The Battleground, CounterPunch, Novara Media, and Souciant. White curated The Battleground collection Losing Europe: Brexit and the End of Britain (2020) and is the author of the forthcoming Goodbye United Kingdom (2022).

Josh White / 20 Mar 2023

Abandoned by the Press

The UK Media and Iraq

Twenty years ago today, US and British forces entered Iraq to bring down Saddam Hussein and rid the country of weapons of mass destruction (WMD).(...)

Josh White / 06 Mar 2023

Contrarian Right

The Story of Spiked

Spiked is the home of professional contrarians who live to cause outrage at liberal middle-class dinner parties. The magazine’s name is a reference to ‘spike’ in journalese.(...)

Josh White / 21 Feb 2023

Lynch Mob Blog

Guido Fawkes, Phony Rebel

Guido Fawkes is the kind of media that can destroy reputations in minutes. Sometimes deservedly, but not always.(...)

Josh White / 07 Feb 2023

Government Policy Advocate

The BBC and Austerity

Not every media organisation can bear criticism, even self-criticism, but others require it to keep going.(...)

Josh White / 23 Jan 2023

Guilty as Charged

Nigel Farage’s Legacy

Brexit will turn three on the last day of January, over six years since the 2016 referendum kickstarted Britain’s race to the bottom.(...)

Josh White / 10 Jan 2023

The Gender-Capital Complex

Platforming Andrew Tate

Before his arrest, Andrew Tate was just another influencer with bad politics.(...)

Josh White / 19 Dec 2022

Britain on Strike

Sunak’s Austerity Crisis

The UK is a broken country. As 2022 comes to a close, the disaster couldn’t be any clearer.(...)

Josh White / 05 Dec 2022

Soviet Collapse, National Decline

Russia 1985–1999, by Adam Curtis

Adam Curtis is a collagist who deals with ideas and their emotional impact.(...)

Josh White / 21 Nov 2022

Magazine for the Poor

Selling The Big Issue

You’ve seen them wearing red jackets, carrying a red magazine. (...)

Josh White / 14 Nov 2022

Left Tabloid

The Canary’s Flawed Mission

Some websites make the news, others make headlines.(...)

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