Patrick Maguire
Patrick Maguire is political correspondent of the New Statesman and co-author of Left Out, on Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership of the Labour Party, to be published by Bodley Head in September
The Man Within
Expect Starmerism to make much more sense in practice than in theory
The dangerous rise of egg harvesting
Women should not be encouraged to undergo a dangerous and unnecessary procedure
Is the law going coconuts?
The acquittal of a pro-Palestine protestor on free speech grounds should not be a one-off
Twilight of the hacks
“A Very Royal Scandal” and the emptiness of modern journalism
How Britain has imported Bangladeshi politics
A failure to take immigration and integration seriously means that Britain has to deal with other nation’s problems
The personal has become far too political
Something has gone very wrong when we are acutely aware of politics
The costs of assisted suicide
The trade-offs are real and extremely serious
The professional classes don’t understand manual work
They cannot understand distinctions between different kinds of labour
The election is still Trump’s to lose
His performance has been weak but his advantages are many
Two-tier justice in Northern Ireland
Why do only some killings deserve investigation?
When America ignored a slaughter
Whatever America’s flaws, its absence from the global stage leaves a space quickly filled by far more malevolent actors
How should we teach about the Holocaust?
Keir Starmer’s social engineering aims seem ill-conceived