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All news by author: Brian Reade

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'Poisoned chalice of England job looks set to claim another decent man'
The way England fans turned on Gareth Southgate last week could convince him his time in the job is up after the Euros
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'Rishi Sunak's barmy army idea is last straw for the no-hope youth of today'
Have the Tories got a problem with the youth of today? I'd certainly say so and here's the evidence...
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'Soaking the rich never felt more deserved - the forecast looks good'
Mirror columnist Brian Reade has a fair idea of what lies ahead for Sunak and the country over the next six weeks. And the forecast looks good
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'Auf wiedersehen to Jurgen Klopp – the German who spoke Scousers’ language'
Sunday afternoon sees the end of an era as Jurgen Klopp manages Liverpool for the final time, and I'm gutted to see him go
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'So many like Yosser have been thrown on the scrapheap as the rich got richer'
There was once something known as the dignity of labour – but sadly those days are long gone now
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'We allow pets to die with dignity so why not our loved ones'
Brian Reade on the news that despite 200,000 people signing a petition calling for terminally ill people to be able to request to end their lives, MPs are still debating whether to introduce an assisted dying bill
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'Attack on Angela Rayner shows Tory plan is to punch down - not level up'
Even a former Tory MP has called the party's witch-hunt over the Labour deputy leader 'a grotesque spectacle of hypocrisy'
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'Education key to ending vile Hillsborough chants that dishonour victims'
"It’s been 35 years since Britain’s worst sporting disaster when 97 people died, and I’d love to say that after half a lifetime the pain and anger has diminished, but I’d be lying"
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Party of 'muppets and morons' could sink Tories for years
Brian Reade looks at the chaotic newcomers and infamous oddballs who have stood in British elections in recent times - and why it's bad news for Rishi Sunak
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'Stop selling weapons to Israel and end this sickening slaughter'
Why did it take the killing of three of our own for Rishi Sunak to register his disgust with Benjamin Netanyahu?
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Polluting water firms have turned Britain into Stool Britannia
The amount of sewage dumped into our rivers and seas last year doubled in quantity, but the fat cats are still drawing obscene bonuses
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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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'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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'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