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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 2007, a column in the Daily Mirror by Reade which likened Lord Green and his organisation MigrationWatch UK to the Ku Klux Klan and the Nazi Party led to Green successfully suing for costs and damages.[1]

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,[2] 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[edit]

  1. ^ "Mirror pays out over Migrationwatch slur". TheGuardian.com. 26 November 2007.
  2. ^ Redfern, Simon (22 May 2011). "An Epic Swindle, by Brian Reade – Reviews". The Independent. Retrieved 26 June 2012.