Pat McGovern

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Nigel Farage is saying the by-election - which Reform was defeated 41% to 29% by Green Party (14,980 to 10,578) was "stolen". Not "fraud" but on Reform calculating the % of eligible voters born abroad: Farage says it is "shattering news" that naturalised citizens + Commonwealth nationals can vote

Square Mile strikes back: how the City of London is fighting disinformation about crime Panic about antisocial behaviour and theft has broken through from social media to boardrooms and diplomatic circles

www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Tired of London tired of life. The slandering of London is so contradictory to experience or statistics. Motivated by business rivalry or jealous projection by right wing elites elsewhere

How RO’CK.

Taxation without representation - How colonial.

I didn’t write the script!

Sirat (2025) ⭐ 7.0 | Action, Adventure, Drama 1h 55m | R

Life lesson: getting stoned and searching for a good rave is dangerous. Doh!
www.imdb.com/title/tt3229...

Having had to give a complete history FIVE times for the same complaint over the past year to five different people within the same #NHS Trust I might campaign on behalf of Palintir.

It’s not too late to vote (for me!) in the UCU election but if you do, stick a 1st class stamp on it to get in on time! Let’s have our own election good news day for a member-led union!

Looking forward to the by-election analysis this morning: how did the plumber beat the professor? #Greens

Travelling Tales? | LSE Public Policy Review

🔓 New article from #LSEPPR journal:

'Travelling Tales?' by Mary S. Morgan

This article explores how narratives help scientific findings travel into policy, and how the “surprise factor” in some narratives can increase circulation and influence.

🔗 https://bit.ly/4cIeW1A

Gen Z more likely to live with parents in early 20s than previous generations | CLS More than two thirds of people in the UK are living with their parents at age 23, around three times higher than a generation of millennials when they were a similar age a decade ago.

🔎New research using data from the Age 23 Sweep of the Millennium Cohort Study shows gen Z are more likely to live with their parents in their early 20s than previous generations.

Read more on the CLS website: bit.ly/4tSafZh

Journalist's case against PSNI over monitoring to begin A veteran Northern Ireland journalist who says he has been the target of "systematic" state monitoring begins a legal case against the PSNI and the security services in London today.

Veteran journalist says he has been the target of "systematic" state monitoring begins legal case
www.rte.ie/news/2026/02...

"The only way we can defeat ethno-nationalism is by deporting all the black and brown people" suffers from one small logical flaw...

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

I had actually forgotten this hilarious episode until now!

For the record, I think Goodwin is unstable to be an MP because he is now an extreme racist/white ethnonationalist who wants to import Trumpist extremism/fascism to the UK.

But it's true he can't add up!

www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Rural entrepreneurship - much tried and much failure. Maybe if it had help in transcending rural markets…

I can remember the shock when Chris Husbands showed me some of the handwritten letters he would receive in relation to his work on the National Front (back in the ‘90s). Used to say with a laugh - ‘it’s the ones in green ink that you have to worry about’. Maybe finding the dark humour was wise.

Important clarification from the Social Democrat politician who called Sweden‘s government “spursy:”

A further dimension that should be considered is socio-economic disadvantage. First in their family graduates and graduates from disadvantaged backgrounds might not have the social connections that guarantee a high salary post graduation.

⚽️ #Eusebio was one of the few geniuses in football. Dad was never a pro and Eusebio was never in an academy before age 15. Shameful to see his name taken in vain by the antagonistic one.

This is exciting! Our director, the brilliant @msumption.bsky.social, has written this super accessible and interesting book What is Immigration Policy For? (Spoiler alert: it’s complicated). Pre-order in the next three days for 25% off! Out on March 31 www.waterstones.com/book/what-is...

⚽️ Wolves have improved greatly under Rob Edwards but some #Gooners in uproar; #Celtic fans streaming out at 1-3 down - both share a noticeable sense of entitlement.

Greenford Celtic’s finest. #grassroots

Wuthering Heights (2026) ⭐ 6.3 | Drama, Romance 2h 16m | R

Stylish, sexy, and more entertaining than the critics would have us believe. www.imdb.com/title/tt3289...

McDonald calls on FAI not to fulfil games against Israel Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald has called on the FAI not to participate in the UEFA Nations League matches against Israel and added "Israel should be given the red card".

Playing to the gallery with gesture politics. If UEFA is not going kick them out then it is done. www.rte.ie/news/2026/02...

More on flawed work getting published in top US management journals. It can't happen here...

statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/01/22/a...

Why are UK universities failing? - LSE Impact The HE sector in the UK faces the prospect of a university going into administration. How have universities fallen so low and is change possible?

Poor political decisions, a broken funding model, managerial leadership, and metric‑driven governance, which together are transforming the sector into something barely recognisable as a public university system by Constantinos Alexiou and George Saridakis

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Scrapping REF should be ‘serious’ option, says Manchester VC - Research Professional News Duncan Ivison questions “usefulness” of “massive, bureaucratic” research assessment exercise

Scrapping REF should be “serious’ option”, says Manchester VC.

Duncan Ivison questions “usefulness” of “massive, bureaucratic” research assessment exercise.

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

Would be good if the Prime Minister and/or Home Secretary would for once come out and describe this as the unadulterated racism and xenophobia it so clearly is.

And their song about ‘25 years of Farage’ made my day.