Brian Reade

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Brian Reade
Born
Brian Reade

(1957-11-20) 20 November 1957 (age 66)
Liverpool, England
NationalityBritish
OccupationJournalist

Brian Reade is a British journalist and author who writes a weekly opinion column for the Daily Mirror. He was born in Wavertree and grew up in Huyton.

He began his journalism career working on the

Reading Evening Post in 1980 and became a columnist on the Liverpool Echo
in 1990 before moving to the Mirror in 1994.

In the aftermath of the 2004 US election in which George W Bush was re-elected for a further term, he penned a damning indictment of Bush and the US electorate, God Help America.[1]

In 2007, a column in the

MigrationWatch UK to the Ku Klux Klan and the Nazi Party led to Green successfully suing for costs and damages.[2]

In 2008, he became a presenter on radio station

City Talk 105.9 and released his first book, entitled 43 Years with the Same Bird, documenting his life spent following Liverpool F.C.

In 2011, he released a book investigating corruption in football, An Epic Swindle,[3] which made The Sunday Times best-seller list. In 2021 Reade wrote a third book Diamonds In The Mud about working-class heroes.[citation needed]

Notes

  1. ^ God Help America
  2. TheGuardian.com
    . 26 November 2007.
  3. ^ Redfern, Simon (22 May 2011). "An Epic Swindle, by Brian Reade – Reviews". The Independent. Retrieved 26 June 2012.