Brian Reade

BRIAN READE is an author and journalist who writes a weekly opinion column for the Daily Mirror.

He was born in Liverpool and began his journalism career on the Reading Evening Post in 1981. He became a sub-editor and football writer on the iverpool Daily Post in 1987 and a feature writer/columnist on the Liverpool Echo in 1990 before moving to the Mirror in 1994 where he has written extensively about football and politics.

The Sports Journalists' Association voted Reade its Sports Columnist of the Year and the British Press Awards has named him Columnist of the Year and Feature Writer of the Year as well as handing him The Cudlipp Award for Journalistic Excellence for his decades-long fight for justice for the victims on the Hillsborough Disaster.

He lives in Liverpool.