If the peer-review was anonymous, how could Goodwin be sure it was done by a world-leading demographer, as stated in the debate?

How can peer-review for a self-published book be anonymous?

Ireland: Court of Appeal criticises citation of fake cases by party in defamation case. Gemma O'Doherty appeal fails. AI hallucinations identified. www2.courts.ie/acc/alfresco...

Goodwin statmogged himself with an LLM.

You wouldn’t know my peer-reviewers. They go to another school.

Serious questions to answer by those who made these spurious allegations in the first instance. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage called for release of Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs and praised effort to free drug trafficker

Why is there no challenge to the bin Laden claim which has been disproven easily?

Community cohesion 2.0. www.gov.uk/government/p...

From 1998, an article from the Workers' Solidarity Movement paper, Anarchist News, on anti-Traveller racism. The issue is available on our website here: www.leftarchive.ie/document/2988/

British tourist among 20 charged in Dubai over videos of Iranian missile strikes

The “boss” in question - what a childish moron. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

"Why Was Garland Shot?" The Irish People, newspaper of Official Sinn Féin, on the attempt on National Organiser Seán Garland's life, which had taken place the week before. Published #OnThisDay, 7th March 1975. www.leftarchive.ie/document/6906/

The #RadicalRight in Belgium: T. Pauwels. “Explaining the Strange Decline of the Populist Radical Right Vlaams Belang in Belgium: The Impact of Permanent Opposition”. In: Acta Politica 46.1 (2011), pp. 60-82. dx.doi.org/10.1057/ap.2010.17.

NEW: One of the most active hubs for sexually explicit AI "deepfakes" is hiding in plain sight. My latest takes a hard look at a 4chan board that's acting as a factory floor for online sexual abuse — where its users have victimized untold numbers of women and girls. openmeasures.io/4chan-ai-dee...

I made a bingo card

“If the ball had gone into the net, I would have scored a goal.”

So it seems we have reached the “using a potential conflagration as an opportunity to hustle“ stage of LinkedIn.

There is “family voting” in Ireland in that some families have voted for the same parties since the civil war. But that’s about the size of it. “Democracy Volunteers” trying to get as much mileage out of this phantom phenomenon as possible? This thread on Ireland very much worth reading in full:

Something tells me there won’t be much mileage in these family voting claims.

On the Democracy Volunteers kerfuffle ... I profiled their head John Ault for a Cornwall council by-election in 2014, and came away from that research with the strong impression that he'd written his own Wikipedia page.

Two new posts on the UK far right: 1/ Matt Goodwin’s antisemitic pals in Reform UK (via @hopenothate.org.uk) brockley.blogspot.com/2026/02/refo...

"At minute 151, when he veered from a story about an orgy on Pat Sajak's boat to complaining about how John Roberts smells like cauliflower, it dawned on me that his presidency was not, in fact, on more stable ground."

New book review published advance access. Matthew L. McDowell reviews "The Global Spread of Football from the 1860s to the 1880s" by Thomas Adam (Anthem Press, 2025) @anthempress.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/0308...

Matt Goodwin’s academic project was debunked as ‘total garbage’. Reform’s Gorton & Denton by-election candidate left a right-wing think tank ‘with his tail between his legs’ when work was exposed, sources tell The Times.

“Miscommunication“? Fluency in English not an issue for a Reform candidate, surely? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Many congratulations to Alvin Jackson on his appointment. www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

Reform UK suspends by-election campaign activist over ‘antisemitic and misogynistic’ posts. Adam Mitula, Reform UK’s interim campaign manager in Tameside, has been assisting Matt Goodwin's Gorton and Denton by-election campaign