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Patrick Maguire

@patrickmaguire.bsky.social

Chief political commentator, The Times

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Phil Tinline@philtinline.bsky.social · 4w ago

Great to read @patrickmaguire.bsky.social's column @thetimes.com today. This country needs a transformative govt. It's voted for change again and again. But a big reason it doesn't happen is a failure to identify & overcome entrenched power a la Attlee & Thatcher. www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

Andy Burnham wants to break ‘unaccountable state’

Prime minister-in-waiting’s mission to end 40 years of neoliberalism is as much about democracy as it is economics

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Patrick Maguire@patrickmaguire.bsky.social · last mo.

The view from the People’s History Museum: Andy Burnham’s first big speech as prime minister presumptive was deceptively substantial. No 10 North is the most concerted challenge to Treasury authority in half a century, hiding in plain sight. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Andy Burnham speech was a genuine challenge to Treasury control

The putative prime minister’s No 10 North could be the most serious check on the finance ministry’s centralised power in half a century

thetimes.com

Stephen Bush@stephenkb.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I understand where Labour MPs on the “it’s too soon, best thing is for Keir to govern well and go in 2028” train are coming from. I used to think that myself. But the core problem is Keir won’t and can’t govern well.

Will Reid-Tong@willthong.com · 3mo ago

Everyone still defending the PM needs to read that 4th para. Keir is so unwilling to ever make a political argument, prioritising winners over losers, that he will never deliver a change agenda & never win a 2nd term. That matters way more than (because it is the upstream cause of) his unpopularity.

Normal Guy@guy-normal.bsky.social · 3mo ago

We need to have the courage to have the hard conversations. To go further in our boldness. And to then embolden our conversations with the voters. That is the change I was elected to deliver.

Patrick Maguire@patrickmaguire.bsky.social · 3mo ago

In the unlikely event I have Maltese followers on here, can anyone help sourcing a copy of this biography of Dom Mintoff? It is, I have just learned to my frustration over a few days, possibly the hardest book to find even in Malta! bdlbooks.com/product/the-...

The Tail that Wagged the Dog

Dr Mark Montebello, the author of Dom Mintoff’s biography The Tail that Wagged the Dog: The Life and Struggles of Dom Mintoff (1916–2012) says “With this first scientific biography of Dom Mintoff we g...

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