Kevin Maguire

Plastic patriot tax exiles who fled to Gulf states to avoid paying their fair share back home should be charged the full whack if repatriated by the UK Government.

Trump wants Iran’s oil just as he did Venezuela’s in another imperial grab.

The US President hailing Putin, Mohammed bin Salman and his oppression in America show the attacks aren’t about human rights.

Let’s not mourn a dead Ayatollah but fear what comes next for Iranians.

Trump now leading the war, breaking international law with his aggression just as he breaks the law in the US launching war on Americans.

Israel attacks Iran as blasts heard in Tehran – live updates Israel’s military sounded air raid sirens across the country ‘to prepare the public for the possibility of missiles being launched toward Israel’ in retaliation

Here we go.

Israel attacks Iran, backed by the US.

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YouTube video by Pierce vs Maguire Episode 26. No Tradesman's Entrance For MP Hannah

Political earthquake special Pierce Vs Maguire after Gorton and Denton.

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'This is a wake up call for Labour - either they change or the Greens grow' Kevin Maguire reacts to Labour's crushing defeat in the Gorton and Denton by-election after the Greens overturned the party's massive majority in the Greater Manchester seat

Either Labour changes or the Greens grow

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Lord Mandelson arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office The ex-US ambassador had been under investigation over allegations he shared market-sensitive government information with Jeffrey Epstein while a government minister.

Evening all.

Peter Mandelson arrested.

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'Royals enabled Andrew with blind eyes and deaf ears - but it won't wash' "Everybody else long ago concluded that the eighth in line to the throne was a bad ’un, yet a privileged family continued housing and financing their son, brother and uncle"

Bit not said out loud is preparations are starting for a state funeral and coronation in, I'm told, 12 months.

No wonder William Mountbatten-Windsor isn't calm when he faces Qs about what he knew about Uncle Andrew and could soon inherit this crisis.

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What drives Gordon Brown? The elder statesman could be enjoying a lucrative semi-retirement on the speaking circuit. Instead, he's campaigning for the downtrodden

What drives Gordon Brown?

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and Peter Mandelson are the latest to feel the fury of a son of the manse and ex-PM still fighting for social justice.

Me for @newstatesman1913.bsky.social.

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I bet Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor is sweating now.

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Happy Birthday Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor

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Is No 10 seeking its own destruction? Why else would it botch its council plans and hand a victory to Farage? | Polly Toynbee Labour promised ‘ambitious reforms’, but it was fixing things that were not broken. And the moral: focus on what matters and stop making stupid mistakes, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

All politics is local.

Picking and losing the wrong fight over English councils makes you wonder whether Starmer and his Government have a death wish.

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Who is in Nigel Farage's new Reform top team? Reform UK has appointed the party's spokespeople on the economy, business, trade and energy, home affairs and justice, and education, skills and equality.

Reform UK would be back to the future under multi-millionaires and the worst failed Tories.

Farage is taking the urine.

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Starmer abandons plans to delay local elections in England in latest U-turn PM under fire from his own MPs and opposition leaders after ditching plan to postpone elections for 30 councils

Why is this expensive centralisation going ahead anyway, distancing services from local people?

Elections in even zombie councils should never be halted but Reform MPs - including Jenrick and Braverman - were in a Con Govt that scrapped some in 2021.

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RIP Chris Boffey, a brilliant old school Fleet Street journalist and raconteur who entertained many a pub with his doorstepping stories.

Always had a wry greeting when you met him.

‘Regrets? Number one: smoking. Number two: taking it up the wrong hole’: Tracey Emin on reputation, radical honesty – and Reform She scandalised the art world in the 1990s with her unmade bed, partied hard in the 2000s – then a brush with death turned the artist’s life upside down. Now she’s as frank as ever

“If the far right get in in this country, we are doomed."

“The immigration from asylum seekers in this country is minuscule, minor. "

"We’ve got a country now that’s bordering on neo-Nazi rhetoric, which I find really abhorrent.”

- @TraceyEmin

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YouTube video by Pierce vs Maguire Episode 24. Will Andrew Be Turned In By The King?

Why the Princes of Darkness could bring down a King and a Prime Minister.

Here's the latest Pierce Vs Maguire podcast.

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What Gordon Brown told me about Mandelson Also this week: crumpets for John Major, and the hypocrisy of Nadine Dorries

When Brown blamed me(jokingly, I hope) for putting Mandelson in the cabinet and a Reform Brextremist is applying for an Irish passport.

I've written this week's @newstatesman1913.bsky.social tesman diary.

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Keir Starmer doing relatively well at PMQs in the circs, showing fight and resilience.

Badly might've been curtains yet better is only a reprieve when fundamentals don't change.

The "gullibility" jibe from SNP's Stephen Flynn over Mandelson and Doyle smashed the defence.

Gordon Brown deflected personal criticism of Keir Starmer over Peter Mandelson but simultaneously made his successor as a Labour PM sound much smaller.

Labour minister ordered investigation of journalists looking into pro-Starmer thinktank Exclusive: Material gathered was personally given to Josh Simons when director of pro-Starmer thinktank, say sources

He shouldn't be a Minister.

Deeply concerning 👇

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Tough on(alleged) crime, tough on the causes of(alleged) crime

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YouTube video by Pierce vs Maguire Episode 23. Now Strip Him of His Lordship!

Mandelson, the Royals and super rich paedophile Jeffrey Epstein is the rancid tale of elite sleaze, immorality and corruption.

No punches pulled in the latest Pierce Vs Maguire podcast.

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Matt Goodwin isn't very British Britain’s finest hour was a fundamental rejection of petty ethnonationalism. Reform should remember that

"I am proud of our Britishness that is found in our shared values, our diverse communities and our evolving culture. Britishness is not written in our DNA. Matt Goodwin doesn’t get this. And that’s why he isn’t really very British at all" - @JeevunSandher

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'Britain's Brexit tantrum is proving to be self-inflicted calamity for country' Kevin Maguire argues that even Brexit's sixth birthday is an opportunity for Britain after the country has suffered a £140billion economic hit

Brexit makes the Rejoiner case

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Jeffrey Epstein sent money to Mandelson’s husband after prison release, emails suggest Child sex offender sent thousands of pounds to Reinaldo Avila da Silva, according to documents published by US justice department

If Starmer hadn't sacked Mandelson last year he would be today.

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Israel accepts health authorities’ Gaza death toll is broadly accurate, saying 70,000 have died Israeli military’s U-turn in accepting official figures comes after years of attacking data as ‘Hamas propaganda’

70,000 Palestinians killed in Gaza by Israel.

This is Israel's military accepting Netanyahu's government lied...and on this the Hamas health authority told the truth.

The genocide charge is strengthened.

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Royal Navy sailors waving flags of other nations while singing they’re proud to be Englishmen was a glorious two-fingered salute to British nativist racists(eg Reform) at the end of the ENO’s HMS Pinafore.

The Coliseum isn’t my usual haunt but loved this Gilbert & Sullivan 😀

TOM LEONARD: Is Trump showing the first signs of losing his marbles? President Trump was kicking off a crucial meeting with oil an gas industry bosses in the White House earlier this month when his attention abruptly wandered.

"Is Trump Losing it?"

Rare occasion when the answer to a question posed in a @DailyMail headline is a resounding YES.

Bring back Joe Biden.

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Keir Starmer's China visit is significant but to call it "historic" is spin when the last by a British PM(Theresa May) was only eight years ago.