Pierce vs Maguire
Join Britain’s longest running political double act, the Mail’s Andrew Pierce and Kevin Maguire from the Mirror for their weekly, no holds barred, take on Westminster, the Royals and usually, The Donald. There’s no fence to sit on so expect fireworks!
Episodes
PM Andy's on holiday, Andrew Pierce is back from schmoozing Joan Collins while Kevin has escaped to Spain to avoid the UK heatwave. But it's far from quiet on the political front with bad headlines for the government rejecting pleas by the family of PC Andrew Harper to keep his killers in jail, questions on how the PM will pay for his ambitious adult social care plans which he seems to be betting the farm on and have Reform jumped ...
Who was first to betray Starmer to set the ball rolling? Why did Miliband and Mahmood miss out on the top job? When did the new Chancellor last use a calculator and what will you spend your 86p windfall on? What do the first few hours of the brave new Burnham world look like, Pierce and Maguire have ears to the ground as usual.
This week's episode is full of great stories including the shock decision Ann Widdecombe made after accepting the plum position of UK Ambassador to the Vatican. What made her hand in her resignation from the post to David Cameron? Andrew has the scoop on that whilst Kevin and his mates from the Mirror were responsible for the rather unkind moniker of Doris Karloff bestowed on Ann who had a great riposte. We'll never see her like ag...
Nigel Farage’s plan to go to the good burghers of Clacton in a by election to rage against the establishment machine faces falling into farce.
All major parties claim they will boycott what they call a stunt with only Count Binface confirming he will stand against the Reform leader.
It was just last week that we considered Nigel Farage's levels of stress, capacity to absorb the blows and whether he had the will to fight on. Lo ...
It was all going so well for Reform but now after a series of set backs and bad press, Britain's top two political commentators, are suggesting Nigel Farage may be preparing to walk away from his plan to beat Labour at the next election.
He has quit before and Andrew Pierce and Kevin Maguire reckon there are signs that history may be about to repeat itself.
Sensational suggestion perhaps, but press play to hear their analysis and, of...
Westminster is vacum packed, sealed in a sweltering bubble for days to come as we wait for the coronation of King Andy, Andrew Pierce and Kevin Maguire are scholars of political history and unpack the deja vu of PM's ruling, arguably, without a popular mandate.
We've been here before and it almost always doesn't end well, can Burnham buck the trend and does he have a legitimate green light to change direction? Let's hope so.
First out of the blocks with Westminster's two best commentators, Andrew Pierce and Kevin Maguire breaking down what Andy Burnham's crushing defeat of Reform in the Makerfield by election means for the UK. And what does Keir Starmer do now, is a coronation or catfight, who is in Burnham's cabinet and what are his policies? The most consequential few days in British political history are about to begin, buckle up with our insiders.
All three of the Windsor Mountbattens, Andrew (formerly known as Prince) and his daughters, have been living rent free in royal lodgings for years. Andrew paid a peppercorn rent for his estate at Windsor and even allegedly earned money from cottages he rented out while the Queen, and now the King , have been bankrolling Beatrice and Eugenie's Palace apartments.
It's not a good look when the country is struggling with high rentals e...
Who isn't shocked and moved by the sickening police body cam footage of innocent Henry Novak, cuffed and arrested as he bled to death wrongly accused of racism by a pair of wicked Sikh brothers. Westminster has reacted to poor policing, claims of two tier justice and allegations of an anti racist mindset amongst officers that ignored Henry's desperate pleas to breathe and believe he'd been stabbed. Police initially took the side of...
Scotland wants to do things differently and my goodness crooked Peter Murrell proved just that this week, sent to jail for swindling the SNP out of £400,000 - he wasn't just the office boss of the Nats but also shared a matrimonial home with Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon. And she is now pleading ignorance of her husband's thieving ways which included a £125k motor home, a Jag and even a fancy pendant Ms Sturgeon was seen ...
Election special - the canvassing has begun in Makerfield, Wigan and in one month there will either be a coronation for Andy Burnham carried high on the heads of Labour MP's into Downing Street or? Or Reform will have been the giant slayer with self employed plumber Robert Kenyon, the local hero, celebrating a victory that will stun the Westminster establishment. Pierce and Maguire have half an hour of analysis, predictions and sti...
Something for the weekend? You know the story by now but here's the best analysis and prediction of what happens next. Starmer, Streeting, Burnham and Rayner - all in the mix and only one will win. Pierce and Maguire have seen it all before but this is different...
Keep Calm and Carry On seems to be the mantra of lame duck Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer but for how much longer ? Blizted in the May elections, Labour faces not just losing a Prime Minister but existential threat to its existence with the rise of the new parties and independence rearing its head again.
As Kevin Maguire of the Mirror says in this week's special, Theresa May resigned for better election results than Labour achieved...
It seems to have worked. Despite a politically charged speech to US politicians, King Charles has restored the ancient foundations between the UK and its former colony from 250 years ago.
Donald Trump is seduced by a Royal family that his Scottish mother idolised and the signs are that this controversial trip has been a success. Not surprisingly Andrew and Kevin are split when it comes the monarchy but will they agree that Charles h...
Mandelson; they think it's all over, it isn't yet! The anonymous Morgan McSweeney, ex chief of staff at No10, has been called before the same group of MPs who grilled top civil servant Sir Ollie this week to explain just how did the good friend of paedophile Jeffrey Epstein get his US Ambassador job.
It will be box office this coming Monday, is there a big enough bus to throw the Prime Minister under or will he play a straight bat b...
It's an X rated discussion this week and we don't mean Donald Trump's response to Rachel Reeves condemnation of the US President's war on Iran. Rather the plan by a Labour MP to wave sex toys around Westminster for a summer of sex, Pierce and Maguire are far from prudes but this is a purile attempt to improve sex education.
So, thank goodness there's always Harry and `Meghan to entertain Andrew and Kevin, down under she's putting he...
A hundred bombs in ten minutes reigned down on Lebanon, meanwhile the Straits of Hormuz remains closed. Whichever way he paints it, Donald Trump has not won this war with Iran - yet. But did Sir Keir Starmer ironically have a good war…by having no war? Helping you make sense of this fragile moment are Andrew Pierce and Kevin Maguire.
Convicted sex offender and former trusted newsman Huw Edwards is considering a comeback, exploring his mental health issues in a self penned documentary - it shouldn’t be allowed say Andrew Pierce and Kevin Maguire. The recent Channel 5 drama documentary sparked fury with viewers demanding to know why Edwards, convicted of making indecent images of children but who also groomed a Welsh teenager (although not convicted o...
Labour’s former deputy Prime Minister is on manoeuvres. Angela Rayner, in the waiting room for leadership candidates, made an explosive speech warning of time running out for the government under Keir Starmer. She also criticised a major immigration policy championed by Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood and may get it changed. She’s a powerful force and were it not for Iran would be Sir Keir’s worst nightmare.
How much would you expect from your bosses if you were sacked in the middle of the night for telling a whopper of a lie to get your job? Not a penny in most cases unless you're our former Ambassador to Washington where £75,000 was sanctioned by the Prime Minister - could have been worse, Mandelson was after half a million! The new Mandeslon files also reveal Sir Keir over ruled two most senior advisers to give the Prince of Darknes...
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