Brian Reade

With 40,000 Palestinians dead, the West must stop trotting out line that Israel has a right to defend itself and enforce a full and immediate arms embargo, says Mirror columnist Brian Reade in his frank and fearless column

Right wing pundists say “economically inactive” should go litter picking. Prince Andrew lives off benefits too, says the Mirror's Brian Reade, who would love to see the eighth in line to the throne in a hi-viz jacket

The screams of horror from Conservatives at Rachel Reeves’ plan to fill the £22 billion black hole they left behind is an invented persecution, says Mirror columnist Brian Reade in his frank and fearless weekly column, but warns Starmer must not usher in a new era of austerity

Cover-ups over Grenfell, Covid, Post Office and infected blood scandals are why a poll has found pride in Britain has sunk so low. Justice and accountability are just empty words, says Mirror columnist Brian Reade, who's seen it all before with Hillsborough

The findings of the review into Hillsborough families' treatment that they deserved more respect at the post mortems is underwhelming to say the least, says Mirror columnist Brian Reade, who recalls the shell-shocked bereaved were treated at best like a hindrance, or worse, like the enemy

The anger over winter fuel payment won’t go away, so Starmer needs to stop singing the song of despair, and throw pensioners a seasonal gift this budget, says Mirror columnist Brian Reade – or he'll be blamed for any OAPs who freeze to death

Several prominent rich people have said they are fleeing the UK for their tax havens, but losing 9,500 of the most venal, sour-faced, unpatriotic parasites among us is no bad thing writes Mirror columnist Brian Reade

Having seen the dark underbelly of Tory freeloaders for himself, Mirror's Brian Reade says Labour was voted in as antidote to political cronyism but the freebies row is leaving it wide open to ­accusations of hypocrisy and distracting from its wins

Unlike the rest of us, not only do the dinosaurs in the Lords have jobs for life – all 804 members of the crony factory have jobs for eternity. Mirror columnist Brian Reade says Oliver Cromwell got it right in 1649 when he said they were “useless and dangerous to the people” and proposes a smaller, elected chamber

Last time he was president, Donald Trump's worst instincts and ideas were curtailed by American institutions, but if he wins next week Trump is likely to go on a vengeance mission