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You have to be quite fearless to write an excoriating review of the book of a prominent and influential man, at least if you move in his sphere of influence, but this is what Ben Sixsmithhas recently done in relation to the Reform UK spokesman Matt Goodwin. His review of Goodwin’s self-published book Suicide of a Nation (what a cliché!) is entitled “Suicide of an author’s credibility” and it calls Goodwin’s tome “a very bad book.” It reads, Sixsmithargues, like someone trying to extend his CV, it contains factual mistakes, AI hallucinated quotes, and even source information from Chat GPT in the few footnotes. It is “slop” written in a patronising style, it is derivative: “I just don’t think a book that claims to defend British culture should be so short on eloquence, wit, scholarship . . .” writes Sixsmith.
