Kevin Maguire
@kevmag.bsky.social
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Journalist. Sunderland Uni visiting prof. England's North East Riviera.
Farage and Reform wasted police time? A Greater Manchester Police investigation found no evidence of any intent to influence or stop any person from voting at the Gorton and Denton by-election.
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Migrants are making our saves, tackling, passing and scoring the goals yet a Right-wing co-owner could invite the anti-migrant head of an anti-migrant party to the club? Weâre enjoying a great season but this @SunderlandAFC own goal would be stupid.
www.itv.com/news/2026-03...
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https://www.itv.com/news/2026-03-27/nigel-farage-offered-sunderland-stadium-of-light-visit-by-club-director
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Trumpflation, fossil fools, war, Huw Edwards, that missing mobile and no repairing Bob Monkhouse's bad jokes. Monkhouse said people laughed when he announced he wanted to be a comedian then didn't when he was. The latest Pierce Vs Maguire podcast.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoIL...
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Episode 30. Why Has Huw Edwards Not Been Jailed?
YouTube video by Pierce vs Maguire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoILzdr5ZN8
2 days ago
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Don't try to out-Reform the Hard Right Reform is the call in a special "Babelfish" paper sent by Labour donor Dale Vince to Starmer, Ministers, MPs and Peers. Babel fish BTW in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy put into ears would translate languages
www.datocms-assets.com/194873/17742...
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https://www.datocms-assets.com/194873/1774282178-eco-babelfish-issue3-complete_compressed.pdf
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Yep and couldn't happen to a nicer Hard Right prat. "Matt Goodwinâs intellectual suicide. In his new book, Reformâs in-house academic set out to articulate his ideas. He produced trash."
www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Matt Goodwin's intellectual suicide
In his new book, Reform's in-house academic set out to articulate his ideas. He produced trash
https://www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2026/03/matt-goodwins-intellectual-suicide
4 days ago
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Derby day will be tasty on Sunday between Newcastle-Sunderland at St Jamesâ Park but it really was blood and thunder here. The Colosseum is one of the few monuments Iâve visited more stunning inside than outside. Lovely Rome weather anarl.
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Buckle up
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Forcing people building new lives in Britain to wait much longer before they are given security is cruel, unfair and counter-productive but is it really, as Angela Rayner says, "unBritish"? Pierce Vs Maguire
youtu.be/_DI9JRISpaI?...
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Episode 29. Ambitious Angela Rises From The Ashes
YouTube video by Pierce vs Maguire
https://youtu.be/_DI9JRISpaI?si=VtdIHQ7pjcsO2roA
9 days ago
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Make them pay every single penny owed. End of.
11 days ago
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Tell Trump No. We saw him boast he didn't need Britain's help. The madman's lost control of a war he couldn't justify and doesn't know how to end. "Trump urges UK and other nations to send ships to help secure Strait of Hormuz after Iranian attacks."
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Trump urges UK and others to send ships to help secure Strait of Hormuz after Iranian attacks - live updates
Meanwhile, sirens are triggered in Jerusalem, with the Israeli military saying it has detected new attacks from Iran.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/ckg1w1jp8kjt
14 days ago
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Happened in Iraq, now happening in Iran.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
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âYou are all worse than each otherâ: anti-regime Iranians turn on Trump
Mood among some in Iran shifts from hope of being rescued to dismay at destruction of infrastructure, culture and lives
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/14/anti-regime-iranians-turn-on-trump-us
14 days ago
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Bloody hell đ And before you ask, the answer here is No. I'm not brave enough. "Journalist donates kidney to teenager after appeal to local newspaper.'
www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk/2026/news/jo...
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Essex Echo journalist donates kidney to teenager after mum's appeal - Journalism News from HoldtheFrontPage
Feature writer turned out to be a match
https://www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk/2026/news/journalist-donates-kidney-to-teenager-after-appeal-to-local-newspaper/
14 days ago
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RIP
add a skeleton here at some point
14 days ago
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Who would've thought "influencer" HSTikkyTokky could be accused of being a manosphere fake. There is another Dubai angle, obvs.
mol.im/a/15642659
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The humiliating truth about HSTikkyTokky's ÂŁ20m fortune
He has finally achieved the global attention he long craved as one of the toxic male influencers featured in Louis Theroux' s hit new Netflix documentary Inside The Manosphere.
https://mol.im/a/15642659
14 days ago
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What did they do and talk about with him? More questions for Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and Peter Mandelson.
14 days ago
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Why only fossil fools would blame renewable energy for a fossil fuel crisis.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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UK energy prices are soaring â and propagandists want to sell you a false reason why | George Monbiot
The war on Iran has put fossil-fuel prices centre stage, but donât believe those who tout âmaximising the North Seaâ as our salvation, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/13/uk-energy-prices-soaring-war-iran-fossil-fuel-north-sea
15 days ago
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Fuel industry is already price gouging in the UK, ramping up prices for petrol(+7p a litre), diesel(16p) and heating oil(doubled) that was ready for sale in the country. Hammer the profiteers.
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
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Rachel Reeves issues stern 'exploitation' warning to fuel firms amid price hikes
Chancellor Rachel Reeves and Energy Secretary Ed Miliband will meet fuel industry bosses for Downing Street roundtable in wake of the Middle East fall-out which has seen fuel costs soar
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/rachel-reeves-warn-fuel-firms-36859517
15 days ago
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Operation Epic Fail
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
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Middle East crisis live: explosions shake Dubai as rescue effort continues after US military plane crashes in Iraq
Blasts heard while fire sends thick smoke across financial hub; US central command says crash in âfriendly airspaceâ was not due to hostile or friendly fire
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2026/mar/13/iran-war-news-live-updates-us-israel-middle-east-crisis-latest#maincontent
15 days ago
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Starmer was right not to join Trump's attack on Iran but wrong to appoint Mandelson UK ambassador to the US. Enjoy the latest @PierceVsMaguire podcast here
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Episode 28. The Stink Of Peter's Payoff!
YouTube video by Pierce vs Maguire
https://youtu.be/rEyuKHRwBhk?si=1_o7Xq36ctDB1uLZ
16 days ago
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Those Mandelson Files
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
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Mandelson files eight revelations - from astonishing request to Farage risk
It comes after the government agreed to MPs' demands last month to release thousands of documents relating to Lord Mandelson's appointment in 2024 after questions over how the peer was vetted
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/seven-key-points-peter-mandelson-36850382
17 days ago
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Trump's war isn't going well and he certainly hasn't won when Iran is hitting ships, effectively closing the Strait of Hormuz. Soaring fuel bills are why bomb-happy Right-wingers who wanted Britain to join the attacks are backtracking or falling silent.
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2026/mar/11/iran-war-live-updates-trump-oil-hormuz-protestors-us-israel-beirut-middle-east-latest-news?filterKeyEvents=false&page=with%3Ablock-69b10a348f08e2478561a0fa#block-69b10a348f08e2478561a0fa
17 days ago
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Farage waves the white flag and surrenders to a British public firmly against Trump and Netanyahu's war And awks for Reform when Nigel's own backtracking will make it difficult to keep a straight face when the Hard Right Trumpists mock Starmer's U-turns.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Nigel Farage accused of U-turn as he says UK should keep out of Iran war
Reform leaderâs latest comment contrasts with earlier statement that âgloves need to come offâ
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/mar/10/nigel-farage-u-turn-uk-iran-war
18 days ago
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Trump blinked first tonight from an economic backlash in the US as pump prices soar. Iranâs regime is battered but still in place and attacking neighbours to create an oil and gas crisis puts pressure on the US President
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Nigel Farage invests ÂŁ215,000 in Kwasi Kwartengâs bitcoin firm
Reform UK leader strengthens ties with crypto sector with stake in former Tory chancellorâs company Stack BTC
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/mar/09/nigel-farage-kwasi-kwarteng-bitcoin-reform-uk-crypto-stack-btc
19 days ago
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19 days ago
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"Trump accused of 'hitting schoolgirl who refused to perform sex act'." Accused in Epstein files finally released while the eyes of Americans and the world are on his war against Iran. Timing that's a coincidence or conspiracy?
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Trump accused of 'hitting schoolgirl who refused to perform sex act'
The documents reveal an unidentified woman told FBI agents shortly after Epstein's arrest for sex trafficking in 2019 she was assaulted by Epstein and Mr Trump (both pictured) as a teen in the 1980s.
https://mol.im/a/15622635
21 days ago
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Tory peerâs crony VIP lane company received ÂŁ24m from taxpayers for unusable anti-Covid gear. The company goes bust owing the same taxpayers ÂŁ1.1m. He should be in the Tower.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
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Tory peer to leave Lords after investigation finds he breached standards over Covid PPE deals
Lord Chadlington introduced government to company in which he had financial interest in 2020
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/06/tory-peer-lord-chadlington-leave-house-of-lords-covid-ppe-deals
21 days ago
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Yep, many are state-regulated tax-free subsidised scammers.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xtir...
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Dubai Influencers vs Iran
YouTube video by The Rest Is Entertainment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xtirdmo8ioA
23 days ago
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Do social media "influencers" enjoy cut-price, free or paid trips to Dubai in return for positive posts? Just wondering.
23 days ago
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"No to war." - Spain's PM Pedro Sanchez âYou canât respond to one illegality with another because thatâs how humanityâs great disasters begin.â
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
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âNo to warâ: SĂĄnchez doubles down after Trump threat to cut off trade with Spain
PM says his country will not be complicit in growing conflict in Middle East âsimply out of fear of reprisals from someoneâ
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/04/pedro-sanchez-donald-trump-threat-cut-off-trade-spain
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Trump is no Washington, Lincoln, FDR or Obama but he is a Nixon. Starmer not joining Trump attacking Iran is discussed in the latest very lively âŠâȘPierce Vs MaguireâŹâ©.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziBh...
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Episode 27: This Is Not Winston Churchill We're Dealing With!
YouTube video by Pierce vs Maguire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziBhILLKnEg
24 days ago
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Churchill oversaw a 1953 coup that replaced Iran's first democratic leader Mohammad Mossadegh with an autocratic Shah so Britain could grab the country's oil. Trump is clueless about history but on Iran I'm relieved Starmer is no Churchill.
www.theguardian.com/world/2020/a...
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MI6, the coup in Iran that changed the Middle East, and the cover-up
Documentary reveals evidence confirming a British spyâs role in restoring the Shah in 1953 â and how the Observer exposed the plot
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/02/mi6-the-coup-in-iran-that-changed-the-middle-east-and-the-cover-up
24 days ago
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US-Israeli first strikes against Iran. Against: Starmer, Davey & Polanksi For: Farage & Badenoch. UK Left(Lab, Lib Dem, Green)-Right(Con, Reform) split.
26 days ago
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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.
27 days ago
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Trump wants Iranâs oil just as he did Venezuelaâs in another imperial grab. The US President hailing Putin, Mohammed bin Salman and his oppression in America show the attacks arenât about human rights. Letâs not mourn a dead Ayatollah but fear what comes next for Iranians.
27 days ago
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Trump now leading the war, breaking international law with his aggression just as he breaks the law in the US launching war on Americans.
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28 days ago
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Here we go. Israel attacks Iran, backed by the US.
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
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Israel attacks Iran as blasts heard in Tehran â live updates
Israelâs military sounded air raid sirens across the country âto prepare the public for the possibility of missiles being launched toward Israelâ in retaliation
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2026/feb/28/israel-attacks-iran-as-blasts-heard-in-tehran-live-updates
28 days ago
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Political earthquake special Pierce Vs Maguire after Gorton and Denton.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HreG...
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Episode 26. No Tradesman's Entrance For MP Hannah
YouTube video by Pierce vs Maguire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HreGcqITfLQ
29 days ago
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Either Labour changes or the Greens grow
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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
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/kevin-maguire-this-wake-up-36789780
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Evening all. Peter Mandelson arrested.
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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.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cew8jde9pxqt
about 1 month ago
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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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'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 âun, yet a privileged family continued housing and financing their son, brother and uncle"
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/royals/royals-enabled-disgraced-andrew-blind-36764146
about 1 month ago
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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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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
https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-politics/2026/02/what-drives-gordon-brown
about 1 month ago
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I bet Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor is sweating now.
about 1 month ago
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Happy Birthday Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor
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about 1 month ago
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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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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 âambitious reformsâ, 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
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/18/no-10-council-nigel-farage-local-government-reform
about 1 month ago
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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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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.
https://news.sky.com/story/who-is-in-nigel-farages-new-reform-top-team-13508478
about 1 month ago
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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.
www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
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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
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/feb/16/government-cancels-plan-to-delay-local-council-elections-in-england
about 1 month ago
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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.
about 1 month ago
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âIf the far right get in in this country, we are doomed." âThe immigration from asylum seekers in this country is minuscule, minor. " "Weâve got a country now thatâs bordering on neo-Nazi rhetoric, which I find really abhorrent.â - @TraceyEmin
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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âRegrets? Number one: smoking. Number two: taking it up the wrong holeâ: Tracey Emin on reputation, radical honesty â and Reform
She scandalised the art world in the 1990s with her unmade bed, partied hard in the 2000s â then a brush with death turned the artistâs life upside down. Now sheâs as frank as ever
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2026/feb/14/tracey-emin-interview-tate-modern-regrets-smoking
about 1 month ago
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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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Episode 24. Will Andrew Be Turned In By The King?
YouTube video by Pierce vs Maguire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCRstgzN6rk
about 1 month ago
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