John Foster, Author at Battleground.eu

Author: John Foster

John Foster is a historian of European politics.

Gods of the Realm

By John Foster
Posted on 30 April 202130 April 2021
Posted in Reviews

Cops and Kurds. Berlin, April 2021.

The conviction of Derek Chauvin for the death of George Floyd has been presented by American media as an important step in addressing police violence against people of colour. (More…)

Killed by Greed

By John Foster
Posted on 23 April 202124 April 2021
Posted in Behind The Lines

Hungary for capital. Juventus advert, Turin.

On Sunday, twelve major European football teams broke away to form the European Super League. (More…)

After Afghanistan

By John Foster
Posted on 19 April 202120 April 2021
Posted in Critical Times

Better weapons, same war. F-16 and Predator drone, US Air Force.

The advent of the Biden Administration presaged many changes in US foreign policy. (More…)

Last Lesson From Vietnam

By John Foster
Posted on 16 April 202116 April 2021
Posted in Behind The Lines

Always the same war. US infantryman, Afghanistan.

On 20 January 2001, George W. Bush was inaugurated as president of the United States. (More…)

The End of the Left

By John Foster
Posted on 2 April 20212 April 2021
Posted in Reviews

The way we were. Paris, May 2013.

There is a case to be made that the left is dead. (More…)

Philistines at Heart

By John Foster
Posted on 19 March 202119 March 2021
Posted in Reviews

Civilised country. Berlin, August 2017.

In an essay on German culture in the years immediately following World War II, historian Anson Rabinbach bemoaned the Federal Republic’s post-fascist politics. (More…)

Catalunya in the 1970s

By John Foster
Posted on 5 March 20218 March 2021
Posted in Reviews

Beating in Las Ramblas. Barcelona, 1976.

A concrete platform occupies a bend in the road in the El Roquetes neighbourhood of Barcelona. It overlooks a dusty playground and a climbing wall, and then beyond the broad sweep of the city and the azure sea. (More…)

Bullshit Politics

By John Foster
Posted on 19 February 202119 February 2021
Posted in Words Have Consequences

Also called conmen. London, 2017.

For Americans, who are wont to see everything in Biblical terms, the Arctic temperatures which froze much of their country this week were a punishment from God. (More…)

Putting an End to Populism

By John Foster
Posted on 5 February 20219 February 2021
Posted in Critical Times

Condemned Lega anti-immigration posters. Milan, 2010.

House Republicans met on Thursday to consider two fraught issues, which will define what kind of conservative party it is once and for all. (More…)