Peter Foster

Oct 23, 2024 | airliners.net | Mark Young |Peter Foster

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Jul 3, 2024 | fivebooks.com | Caroline Knowles |Ben Judah |Peter Foster |Georgina Sturge

You left your job at The Economist to open Backstory, an independent bookshop in Balham, London. Much of our understanding of election cycles comes, necessarily, from short-form articles. How can nonfiction books help us understand British politics in 2024? In the UK, our election campaigns are very short. Six or seven weeks vs. a couple of years in the United States. This means that our election coverage is very focused on personality and on polling.

Sep 7, 2023 | waterstones.com | Peter Foster

Six years after Brexit, it can feel like we're still having the same conversations. This is the explainer we need to move on. And we do need to move on, because in the meantime so much has changed. The economic realities that are making the UK less competitive, less productive and less well-off are ever more obvious - and more and more people are finding out the Brexit they were sold was based on falsehoods and fantasy. So what exactly went wrong with Brexit?

Sep 7, 2023 | canongate.co.uk | Peter Foster

ONE OF 2023’S BIGGEST NEW BOOKS (GUARDIAN)A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2023A GUARDIAN ‘IF YOU READ ONE BOOK ABOUT …’ POLITICS PICKA WATERSTONES BEST BOOK OF 2023: POLITICSSix years after Brexit, it can feel like we’re still having the same conversations. This is the explainer we need to move on. And we do need to move on, because in the meantime so much has changed.

Sep 4, 2023 | shepherd.com | Peter Foster |Peter Ricketts |Ivan Krastev |Stephen Holmes

By Peter FosterWho am I? I am a journalist who spent 15 years reporting from all over the world – Kabul, Baghdad, New Delhi, Beijing, Washington D.C. – returning to London in 2015 to report on the UK’s relations with Europe. Then Brexit happened. As a reporter, I’d chronicled the rise of China and India after 9/11 and the 2008 financial crisis, but I’d failed to understand how far Britain had been consumed by the forces of populism that have roiled all Western democracies.