KEVIN MAGUIRE is the Daily Mirror’s man they fear in the corridors of power and renowned for his perspicacity. Here’s what the Mirror’s associate editor and Tribune columnist said in the New Statesman: “Heavily tipped to be the next Labour general secretary is the T&G union apparatchik Ray Collins.” Of course, he wrote this in October 2005 and Mystic Kev did not foresee the coming of the now non-persons who preceded Mr Collins. But he has been proved right in the end.