Paul Routledge

Columnist

Political columnist Paul Routledge is a Fleet Street legend who joined the Mirror in 1998

Fighting like stags - these MPs caused 'the great rumble in the Westminster jungle'

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'Keir Starmer has RATTLED his rivals but the biggest challenge is in 48 hours'

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'Rachel Reeves' Labour conference speech scored zero for humour - but 10 for gut'

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PAUL ROUTLEDGE: 'I live in Britain's best place to grow old - and it more than lives up to the title'

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PAUL ROUTLEDGE: 'Peter Mandelson keeps making same mistake - now it's got him sacked'

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PAUL ROUTLEDGE: 'Trainspotting made me a lifelong railway fan - a puffer nutter'

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PAUL ROUTLEDGE: 'Britain is better than this - forget Farage, we need more decency and humanity'

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'I knew Norman Tebbit - one thing made him stand apart from today's MPs'

Norman Tebbit the working class Thatcher supporter hell-bent on destroying unions

Inside the playboy princes’ Royal love train where Charles had secret tryst

Relief and suspicion at Scunthorpe steelworks - 'They bought it to shut it down'

Journey back in time to the Victorian age inside Britain's last lace factory

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‘Count your blessings - at least we don't have a Kemi-Farage coalition’

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‘New Orleans attack is in the shadow of a far greater terror being unleashed in Gaza’

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‘Hands up if you think a stricter rules are needed for home schooling’

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‘Rob Burrow Centre a fitting tribute to a great man – while Boris hospital is a hole’

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'Vlad the Invader is scenting total victory in Ukraine and will cost UK dear'

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'Only secure jobs and decent wages can get people off sickness benefits'

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‘A few inches of snow in November? It's child's play compared to 1963’s Big Freeze’

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Labour knowing pensioners would be pushed into poverty proves they're mean as well as daft

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'If MPs really care about the elderly, they should back hospices, not assisted dying'

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'It's one of life's minor pleasures, but recently I've been trespassed upon'

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Yet another Badenough leader for the dirty word party who must not be named

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Guy Fawkes is as long as Christmas now – and ‘trick or treating’ is doorstep blackmail