Couldn’t be prouder of Mariah, ⁦Maryann Gallagher⁩ and my academic daughter. ❤️ research.uga.edu/news/mariah-ca…

Respect for Kaitlin Collins, who does what any journalist should do when they decide to interview a bad faith actor: push back against lies and gas lightening, counter lies by stating the facts, and force them to answer the question. 👏

There's been a lot of talk on here this week about Le Pen's decision not to form a group with AfD for the European elections.

If only someone had written a book about right-wing populist groups in the European Parliament.

Actually, they did!

academic.oup.com/book/36661

UPDATE! 🚨

ID has decided to kick AfD out. There was some disagreement, however, with DF and EKRE preferring to just kick out Krah. COuld be relevant after #EP2024 in case ID needs AfD to become third-biggest group of simply remain a group.

politico.eu/article/far-ri…

'The pessimistic version is that the Dutch system has normalised Wilders and is now dominated by his ideas.'

Simon Kuper on the rise of Geert Wilders. ft.com/content/4b946b…