All news by author: Paul Routledge

Employees in Coventry and Birmingham are going on strike next week. Their claim is for £15 an hour and recognition of their union, the GMB. I wish them well, says Paul Routledge

Former mineworker Steve Tulley told the Mirror about his experiences during the Miners' Strike forty years on - and has reflected on whether the era-defining industrial action was 'worth it'

Political columnist Paul Routledge on the how people who were reviled in life for standing up for what they believe in - like the miners - are only celebrated in death

Paul Routledge on the alarming rise in mental health issues among 18 to 24 year olds, and how it's no surprise when one in five are forced to take jobs in unstable environments

"Wherever I look, on trains, in pubs, in the street, there are so-called grown-ups glued to their tiny phone screens, scrolling and clicking like demented robots"

Paul Routledge rightly addresses the 'phoney war in the Pennine foothills' over the dumping of Rochdale's Labour candidate Azhar Ali, saying it's clouding the party's judgement to fight proper battles

Paul Routledge tells how he now carries a home-made ID document around with him which would save medics time if he was found in an emergency as health experts recommend a "patient passport"

The Labour Party might be on a charm offensive with the fatcats in high finance, but Mirror columnist Paul Routledge asks if it's really necessary to be cosying quite so close to the bankers

A top NATO commander says the UK's alliance with Ukraine - after Sunak increased military aid to £2.5billion a year - is preparing for a conflict with Russia “in the next 20 years”

As a three-year-old, I lived through the winter of 1947 in an unheated terraced house. In January 1963, I hitch-hiked every night from Nottingham to Wakefield and back to see my new daughter.

Public rage was triggered by a TV drama about the PO injustices, but this mood has been bubbling under for quite a while

Instead of the winter days of childhood when people could play in the snow, now we have monsoon season with week after week of continuous rain

The dark story of the Great Post Office Robbery-That-Never-Was cried out to be told

The Mirror's Paul Routledge writes about his memories of Derek Draper: 'It is the conviviality that survives. I can hear Dolly now, voice raised, hair swept back, head tilted, grinning'

Marcia Williams made herself indispensable as the personal and political ­secretary of Labour’s first Prime Minister since Clement Attlee, but it ended in scandal, poverty and disgrace

Our columnist believes there are some things we can be sure about: wars, weather calamities, new Tory and royal scandals, fresh misery for England on the football pitch, and mixed fortunes in the Olympics

Paul Routledge pays tribute to investigative journalist John Pilger, who worked at the Daily Mirror from 1963 to 1986 and died aged 84 in London on Saturday after decades in the industry

From seeing justice done for Hillsborough to angering Winston Churchill, the Mirror's columnists have been at the leading edge of journalism for over a hundred years. Paul Routledge pays tribute.

Climate action will remain slow, but the Dubai summit delivered as much as could be expected, says Paul Routledge

Robert Jenrick’s resignation as Immigration Minister is merely the latest manifestation of this relentless decline

'War fatigue' is gaining ground across the West, and Paul Routledge argues Boris Johnson was too quick to commit the UK to Ukraine's total recovery with no serious debate about when the money will stop

Paul Routledge has a steamy encounter with an old love as he visits Cononley station to witness the iconic Flying Scotsman power through on its hundredth anniversary

Robert Gildea, Emeritus Professor of Modern History at Oxford, spent years recording hundreds of “voices from the deep” across the former coalfields for a new book

Israel is trashing its reputation with the death toll of its war against Hamas in Gaza, says Paul Routledge

Even for a news junkie like me, rolling war coverage gets hard to take