Tories Are Dead
2024 UK Election Diary
If the Tories were a vegetable, they would’ve been composted years ago. Not in British politics, where rotten parties stick around long after they’re past due.(...)
Books
German Apartheid Politics
Memory, Democracy and Genocide
No one denounces racism like Wieland Hoban. Best known for his translations of philosophers Theodor Adorno and Walter Benjamin into English, the Frankfurt-based Jewish composer and activist wears his work on his sleeve.(...)
End of Story
European Cinema in a Post-Narrative Age
End of Story makes a case for the importance of feature-length films at a time when they are in danger of being rendered obsolete.(...)
War By Any Other Name
Left and Right in the Era of European Populism
Europe’s future is darkening. The far right is on the ascent, while the centre left clings to neoliberalism. In his first essay collection, John Foster plumbs the depths of the crisis and what it portends for the post-Cold War order.(...)
Goodbye United Kingdom
Descent Into Chaos, 2015-2022
If it happened, he wrote about it. Whether working as a finance journalist or dissecting Labour Antisemitism, for the last decade, Josh White has covered nearly every corner of the British Isles.(...)
Listening for the Future
Popular Music for Europe
When it comes to music journalism, Charlie Bertsch has few peers. An authority on everything from German punk to Moroccan Gnawa, Bertsch is at home in nearly every conceivable genre.(...)
Losing Europe
Brexit and the End of Britain
Featuring the best of The Battleground’s Brexit coverage, Losing Europe bins the spin from the tabloids and sets things straight.(...)