All news by author: Brian Reade

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'It'll soon be last orders for the opportunistic pub bore Anderson'
Having flip-flopped from Labour to the Tories and then to Reform UK, Lee Anderson will most likely be out on his ear come the general election, writes Brian Reade
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Thatcher’s brutal war on miners should be taught in our schools
Forget history lessons about kings and generals, this is the stuff our children should never forget
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'Right-wing short-term memory of our NHS medics’ heroics is simply Breathtaking'
Doctors fought on the front line of Covid, but now they aren't even given a fair pay deal - they were ripping up bin bags for PPE while the government was handing out multi-million-pound contracts to their friends
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'Say no, Joe, and let a younger candidate take on terrible Donald Trump'
If Joe Biden stands against Donald Trump in November it won’t just be a disaster for America and its allies, it will be the moment the US finally gave up on any pretence of being the most powerful political force on Earth
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'Football is not in dark age - fans and players have never been better behaved'
If Fleet Street thought the sex lives of football players and the behaviour of fans was worth writing about back in the day there wouldn't be any space left for actual news, writes Mirror columnist Brian Reade
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'The Tories are fueling their electoral defeat with their anti-woke card'
The weird anti-woke agenda the Tories want voters to buy into is a smokescreen to hide the misery, division, economic decline and decimation of social fabric they have inflicted writes Brian Reade
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'Jurgen Klopp, Shankly and Dalglish - outsiders who fully embraced Liverpool'
Mirror columnist Brian Reade believed Jurgen Klopp was an outsider who "fully embraced Liverpool and its people" which helped him lift the club back to the pinnacle of the game and took fans on a "wonderous journey" over the last few years
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'2024 is the Year of Democracy - and Tory big beasts are ripe for the cull'
If the opinion polls stay roughly the way they are, the Tory vote will be decimated and the big beasts with the small majorities will face televised shaming, says Brian Reade
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'CBE for Post Office boss says it all about our honours system'
Our columnist thinks its corrupt that Paula Vennells, who led the Post Office from 2012-2019 when more than 700 sub-postmasters were wrongly prosecuted for theft, fraud and false accounting, received a CBE
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From Hancock's 'moobs' to Braverman's 'bullying' - 2023 was a year to forget
Columnist Brian Reade hands out his bouquets and brickbats for a year that wasn't really notable for anything other than a constant stream of really terrible news, even if Donald Trump faced four different courts
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'Boris Johnson's "sorry" was part of the tired old lines we've heard many times'
"His Ken Dodd hair had been given an extra ruffling to convince us that, as he spluttered 19 times 'I don’t remember' and failed to account for the loss of 5,000 WhatsApp messages, it was down to him being a befuddled Private Godfrey figure'
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'Law promising truth to Hillsborough families would never happen under Tories'
Daily Mirror columnist Brian Reade says we can only hope that Keir Starmer keeps his promise of putting a Hillsborough Law on the statute books if Labour are elected
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'Arrogant gall of James Dyson stood out - our win was a good day for Britain'
The Mirror's Brian Reade reflects on a court victory for the Mirror against the billionaire businessman James Dyson in a win for freedom of expression
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'Nigel Farage's toxic future is far worse than eating koala testicles'
A bigger fear about the man who was reportedly a fan of Hitler in his youth, is that he has seen the ­populist wave sweeping the globe, and is eyeing up a return to frontline politics, writes Brian Reade
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'Eton Dave can't breathe life into this rotting corpse of a Tory government'
It's been another week of infighting and disasters for Rishi Sunak's party - just don't forget it all when it comes to election time
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'Argument to abolish the Lords is stronger after spectacle of the King's speech'
The argument for getting rid of the Lords has never been stronger than following the spectacle of the King's Speech
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'Abdel helped save my life - and then risked his on a Gaza mercy mission'
Having paid out of his own pocket to travel to Gaza to conduct life-saving operations, surgeon Abdul Hammed was stranded when war broke out
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'Shame on Rishi Sunak for rewarding bankers but leaving million kids destitute'
The damage Tory ­governments have done to this country is immeasurable, says Brian Reade, and as the PM scraps the cap on bankers' bonuses while hundreds of thousands still rely on foodbanks, he hopes voters will remember the pain and Sunak's priorities
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'Bobby Charlton was a sporting hero - but his character truly set him apart'
After the death of football legend Sir Bobby Charlton, Brian Reade looks back on the unmatchable career of a sports icon who won almost every honour the game has to offer
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Taking sides is futile when innocents die across tragic divide
Biden and Sunak are right to show disgust at the Hamas atrocities and back Israel’s right to defend itself. But they should also show sympathy for the guiltless Palestinians dying in the current conflict
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'The Tory team are talking their way to relegation and won't win next election'
Columnist Brian Reade says the Conservative Party conference was the bluntest of admissions that for 13 years the Tories have done nothing but make this country worse
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HS2 snub is another Tory nail in the North’s sorry sinking coffin
How has the region that was the ­backbone of the industrial revolution sunk from being one of the world’s richest to one of Europe’s poorest?
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State pension isn’t a handout, we've grafted all our lives to earn it
Listening to the current debate about ditching or suspending the triple lock, you'd think people hadn't earned the right to this guaranteed income
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'Crumbling concrete is result of Britain’s disregard for state-educated kids'
As our schools dissipate, Brian Reade says no other rich country would hold such arrogant disregard for the education and safety of 93% of its schoolchildren
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Selfless unsung hero Terry shames the likes of Nadine Dorries
Welfare rights worker Terry Craven worked tirelessly on behalf of the poor and homeless - and never expected any recognition in return